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Parking at junctions..

  • 24-08-2005 11:00am
    #1
    jd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭


    There seems to be little enforcement in the burbs. I was wondering though, is it illegal to park in front of the Intersecting road at a T Junction

    tj.JPG


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  • #2
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    From ROAD TRAFFIC (TRAFFIC AND PARKING) REGULATIONS, 1997
    6. (1) Save as otherwise provided for in these Regulations and subject to article 5, a vehicle shall not be parked on a public road at a location, in a manner or for a purpose referred to in this article.
    (2) A vehicle shall not be parked—
    .............
    ( c ) within 5 metres of a road junction;
    We've got a bit of a similar problem where two cars insist on parking up on the kerb or grass verge right on the corner of the entrance to the estate from a relatively main road. One has no excuse as he has a driveway big enough for 3 cars and they only have 2, and the other is just too lazy to shuffle his two cars around as needed to avoid doing this.

    We also have a few cases of what you have described above. If you're coming from the left on your diagram to turn right, it can make it very awkward, especially as in our case the people on that corner have a very high hedge, which obstructs your view through the corner to any playing kids on the other side.

    Usually the repsonse I've got when I've asked them about it is something along the lines of "Mind your own business", or "Where else can I park?", as if it's some kind of right to park wherever you like and bugger anyone else.


  • #3
    markpb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,414 ✭✭✭markpb


    If in doubt, call the Garda traffic corp on 01 666 9800 and see what they say and what they can do about it. People in Ireland need to have proper parking/driving etiquette beaten into them before this becomes a nice country to walk/cycle/drive in.


  • #4
    DubTony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭DubTony


    jd wrote:
    There seems to be little enforcement in the burbs. I was wondering though, is it illegal to park in front of the Intersecting road at a T Junction

    tj.JPG

    Nice diagram Jd. Imagine there's one of those huge blobs of paint in the middle of that and then consider people park in the spot you pint out. That's what happens where I live.

    My road is the stem (as opposed to the top) of the T and regularly people visiting one of the houses on the corner regularly park there. As Alun said it makes turning very dangerous. Apart from that, the guy who lives in the house they're visiting, parks his pick-up on the road I live on. (His house is on the corner, but located on the other road). After it was pointed out to him he should be 20 feet from the corner, he said he couldn't see it from his house if he parked further down, so now he puts it on the grass in the same spot. Not as dangerous, but ... there are kids around.

    It's not about driving, or motorists being courteous. It's about plain ordinary pig ignorance. Too much of the "I'm important, I do anything I want any way I like, and fúck the rest of you" attitude around. It's a shame really, it used to be a nice country to live in.


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