Liffey valley to start charging for parking

Well if you know you're buying bulky stuff or heavy stuff it's nice to get parking close to the door. So if you've made the effort to get there early and find all the parking spaces close to the door have already been taken by staff it can be irritating.

Plus if it's p1ssing down and you've to make multiple trips to the car to drop bags off it can be irritating.

A previous poster made a good point that they don't mind paying for dundrum as it's indoors and they don't even have to put a jkt on.

Personally I usually park away from the door and hope my car doesn't make friends when I'm in there.

I think you have the wrong end of the stick here.

I imagine that parking is provided by the owners of the centre in order to make the place more attractive to businesses because it will attract more customers. The more attractive it is, the higher rents they can charge. If the centre doesn't provide parking, then customers decrease. The rent that the owners can charge decreases, but also does the economics for the shop owner and they might need to up their prices to survive with the lower footfall. Similar to how a reasonably sized store in the centre of a town will probably be more expensive than the massive Tesco on the outskirts.

Yes, exactly. Staff are lazy effers who won't walk 100m and use spaces further away.

Shoppers are similar - just read this thread.

An average "shoppers" space is turned over about 5 times a day in a shopping center. On a main street it increases to 9.

So each space taken by an all day parker could be used by 5-9 shoppers.

Same here. Opticians will need to stick to their appointment schedule as people won't be happy !

Really think they should have at least a 15-min grace period for people collecting from the restaurants there. Can’t imagine Eddie Rockets or Five Guys being happy with this for delivery drivers or people collecting.

delivery drivers just won’t take the jobs

I don't understand why you can't validate your parking if you spend a certain amount in shops. Oh yeah, I do, it's because the whole "no parking due to people leaving their cars there all day" is bullshít and they just decided it's a handy cash cow.

Just eat etc have pretty strict rules for this. No one is spending €6 on delivery (normal fee + new fee)

I wouldn’t rule out some sort of grace period though

Alot of places charging 5 euro for delivery on Just eat these days!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like a disaster @antodeco - thanks for sharing

"The car park spaces are slightly narrower by about 2 inches"

Seriously? Car park spaces in general are already far too small. Standard spaces are based on the tiny size of cars we had in the 60s and 70s. I run a large car, which is almost 5m long and 2m wide. It takes care to get in and out of the car without the doors touching the next car. Looks like I will be avoiding that place altogether (apart from giving my eldest a lift to work and a drop off in the staff car park area)

No one will be using public transport given the tail backs this weekend. No bus lanes all the way so no incentive there.

Cycling definitely not safe either.

Heard the staff are going mad over the proposed charges and fear for their jobs.

Liffey valley will back down and give first 2 hours free etc