Charges for dropoff and collect to be imposed in Dublin airport

you read up on the DAA proposal, you’ll see they made provision for blue badge holders. For others who don’t have or don’t like the alternatives, they pay a small fee.

Cllr Joe Newman objected - fair play to him. And Senator Emer Currie added a supporting submission in objection to grant of permission. Fair play to the two of them, seeing exactly what this is... a money grabbing exercise by DAA. Sustainability my arse.

Which is fine, except DAA said they were introducing it for environmental reasons. That bit is clearly nonsense if, as you suggest, people drive anyway.

It is about money. 100% about increasing revenue

I don't understand what you mean by not having an alternative? If this goes ahead there will be an alternative provided. You will be able to drop off/pick up in the red carpark. It may not be an alternative you're happy with but it will be there. The fee for Heathrow is £5 minimum, anything above €5 for Dublin Airport would be unreasonable imo.

Around 500 flights on average depart and land at Dublin airport each day…

dozens of ground support vehicles many of a let’s say, certain vintage belching out copious amounts of exhaust fumes..

Aircraft sitting on stand running their APU when no ground power available or they don’t want to use it.

hundreds of more buses depart and arrive per day…

car journeys to and from the airport absolutely pale in significance to the issues caused to the environment as above…

And what about the 90% of Dublin who don’t live close to that route?

I want to take public transport to the airport. I can’t. Just like the vast, vast majority of people.

Did you look at their other routes, some 24 hour, some 20 hour? Did you look at the other bus companies , like Bus Eireann, JJ Kavanagh, Dublin Express. The airport is the busiest bus terminal in the country.

But if it doesn’t work for you, you can still drive, and drop off for free at the red car park, or for a small cost at the terminal.

Grand so, as stated above:

But if it doesn’t work for you, you can still drive, and drop off for free at the red car park, or for a small cost at the terminal.

Let me try it a 3rd time;

But if it doesn’t work for you, you can still drive, and drop off for free at the red car park, or for a small cost at the terminal.

Your relentlessly out of touch take on the matter makes it difficult to take the quoted sentiment seriously. The level of tone-deafness is akin to the time Stephen Colbert said gas price increases didn't affect him because he drives a Tesla. Meanwhile, down on Earth, the average Joe can't afford one.

First off, people who live out in the sticks where Airport Transport is more sparse do so because living in Dublin is very unafforable. With build-to-rent schemes becoming more mainstream, this is likely going to get worse.

Second off, the frequency of buses on some routes is laughably low and doesn't offer would-be vacationers that much flexibility where they could be arriving at the airport many hours before they take off. The resultant long drawn out wait would be very stressful.

Third off, being offered a lift to the airport also provides emotional support to passengers by friends, parents or other close relations who could be feeling very anxious about their trip.

There are dozens of other reasons for driving people to the airport. However, I thought the aforementioned points would add a reality check to the argument.

Yet, you still want motorists financially penalized for making the prospect of travelling abroad less stressful?

How much do you think the drop off charge will be as a percentage of their overall trip budget?

Cost of parking at Dublin Airport climbs dramatically (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/cost-of-parking-at-dublin-airport-climbs-dramatically-1.4860615

They really are an absolute shower of pure chances.

An absolute disagree, so even if you park now in their car park and not get dropped off they will rip you off.

But you can get dropped off in the red car park and take a free shuttle bus to the terminal, which takes under 10 minutes?

Have these drop-off charges actually been brought in yet, or are they still just proposals?

Fine so, lets all just block up the main approach roads for drop offs until they cop the **** on to life.

It will only be €1 or €2 to drive in, a tiny amount in the overall cost of car ownership, relax the cacks will ya.

Or better still, just fly less often. That’ll really stick it to the green libs.

Which motorways are you referring to? Motorways built by PPP consortia were financed by them to be paid for by toll revenue.

Not sure what this has to do with anything BTW.

It doesn’t matter… because it’s still gouging. If you were charged a tenner for a pint in the bar, that would be gouging too.

asking “ how much do think the pint would be as a percentage of their / your overall trip budget ? “ not relevant , it’s still gouging…

its not going to help the environment. Not until relevant efficient, comfortable and far reaching public transport infrastructure is available.

Just means people will be making the same trips and gouged for the privilege…

We should stop producing beef in this country to stop pollution. We should ban cars in the city centre. We should criminalise families dropping teenagers to school within the cities.

Any truth in the rumour DAA have bought up the Q-Park site? It was sold in November. So much for The Competition Authority in this country if true 🤔