Parking on footpath

Brego888

There's a large lorry parking at the junction of a road in our estate for over a week.

Not only is it blocking visibility at the junction, its completely blocking one footpath forcing those with buggies to move out into the road to move around it.

I don't know who owns it.

Who do I contact about moving it, Gardai, council?

FishOnABike

Gardaí I'd imagine or traffic warden if there's one for your area.

There's one definite offense - parking on the footpath and possibly two more - parking within 5m of the junction and parking where there's a solid centre line road marking (possibly part of the marking running up to a stop line).

mikemac2

edited out

name and shame won't work if the OP does not know the owner

Seth Brundle

Gardai can fine the owner €80 for the offence of parking on the footpath. Hopefully the driver will get the message and won't park there again.

I think there might be something about parking large trucks in a residential estate. Contact one of your county councillors on this.

magicbastarder

It'd be the gardai I'd be contacting. Also, you could try having a geansai at the tax disc etc as you pass; if there is anything amiss there would be more reason they'd attend.

noelfirl

I've posted it before. I'll post it again. There's a completely lax attitude to dealing with shoddy parking in Ireland and the Simpsons developed the proper solution for it quite some time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdL5pKvsss

Zebra3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118970568#Comment_118970568

It’s not shoddy parking, it’s illegal parking.

Sadly, a lot of motorists are complete and utter narcissists.

AGS couldn’t give a toss and corrupt politicians don’t want the law enforced.