Dublin city 3 hour max parking

horsebox7 wrote: »

Hi

I see most signs say three hour max on street parking. Do you get clamped if u stay over 3 hours even if you pay for more tham 3 hours?

None of the machines will sell you a ticket for longer than 3 hours and you can't pay for more than 3 hours using the smartphone app.

But there's nothing to stop you buying a second ticket when the first one runs out. The smartphone app has no idea what street you're parked on so you could simply top up remotely every three hours. In the case of a physical ticket from a machine, you'd obviously have to visit the car each time to put a new ticket on the dash.

I'm pretty sure the clampers do not log cars to detect people overstaying in the same spot - like the NCP people do in shopping centre car parks.

Just throw her up on the footpath somewhere. No one in DCC gives a ****

horsebox7 wrote: »

Thanks for all your replies. Just wondering if anybody knows of anyone who got clamped for overstaying the 3 hours eventhough it was paid for?

If you're talking about a scenario where you park and pay for three hours, then (without moving the car) you pay for more parking, the answer from me is no.

I worked in an office near Baggot St. where people were forever running out every three hours to put a new ticket on the dash, none of them was ever clamped with a valid ticket on display. The clampers go around in vans, all they care about are cars that have not paid or where the ticket has expired. The rule about moving after three hours is simply not enforced in the city.

In the early days of clamping in the city, the first line of attack was a team of people on mopeds who scanned streets for cars with expired or no ticket. They called in the clampers but they were easily spotted so by the time the van arrived, the people working at the front of the building had alerted their colleagues following which there was a mad dash to the machine and all of the cars had a valid ticket when the clamper van arrived. That system didn't work so the mopeds were decommissioned. It's possible that the people on the mopeds also had a brief to look for people overstaying but they're long gone. Nowadays, the clamper vans go around by themselves looking for victims.

I'm not sure about the three local authorities outside the city, they have traffic wardens on foot, they may enforce such a rule if it exists in certain streets.