Bad Parking in Waterford

iseegirls wrote: »

They've now erected poles around the yellow box, allowing customers to get and return their trolley safely, without having to veer around cars parked illegally on the yellow box.

And yet, only last Friday there was that red BMW 3 on 151-D plates parked right outside the entrance on the yellow box where no poles were put. Some people must have found their licence in cereal box.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Just thought I'd add this hazard



and mention the Tramore Road area outside Smyths where the cycle lane is now a permanent car park in the run up to Christmas.

That’s tame. Live in the city centre area for years like I did and you’ll see the incredible. One day I went out the front door to find some lovely person had parked the car up on the footpath literally a few inch’s from the door. I had to turn sideways to get out!

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Possibly about to start a heated debate with this, but, why should these spaces exist? I don't agree with them, and would much prefer to see OAP spaces instead. Elderly people could require closer parking, but parents should not get automatic rights just because they have kids.

I don't park in them myself, unless there are literally no other spaces around, but only because i couldn't be bothered trying to defend my position on them to strangers on the street who take exception to it.

There's also no legal requirement not to park in them. And before anyone asks, no, i don't have kids of my own, and no, i don't care about the struggles parents may have with bringing kids to the shopping centres. That's another annoyance of mine, but that's for a different thread. Parents decided to have kids, shouldn't mean they get automatic rights at anything. I've decided not to have kids, so can i have my "No Children" spaces near the doors?

Ultimately, it's up to the shops themselves to decide whether they want to designate spaces as parent and child spaces or not. If that's the designation, shoppers ought to follow that designation.

Sometimes parents have no choice but to bring kids shopping with them. Everyone needs to shop and sometimes there's nobody else to mind the kids. Believe me, it's no fun dragging a couple of kids all the way through a car park, pushing a trolley and cars driving around you. I would guess that part of the reason for designated parent and child spaces is safety. On the other hand, if I'm on my own, it's really no big deal if I have to walk a distance to my car. I don't see that this designation is really any skin off anyone else's nose. It's just a little way of making life a little easier for one section of the population - a little bit of genorosity if you like.

I agree with you about elderly people btw - some of them definitely need it. Though one difficulty might be that some elderly are as able-bodied as the rest of us so such a designation for all elderly people might not be entirely fair.

The strand road on Tramore always has bad parking, very few people park within the lines, so they take up two spaces

aziz wrote: »

Here's a right doozie

Suppose whoever owns it can open the window of their house and jump right in! Tis like a portable extension to the property. Maybe they should try rent out the room? :pac:

I would like to think that this was a breakdown but you just never know.

Parking on that high footpath just around the corner from the Golden Fry is unreal. Its pure laziness to stick the car up on the path, put the hazards on and leave it there for up to 30 mins while you get your food! Plus any cars coming around Lower Grange side will only see it at the last second so very dangerous. Theres plenty of parking outside the flower shop or church parking lot.

school pick ups particularly primary (school ones) are another example of daily moronic parking behaviour and driver manoeuvres….you could target these also to enhance your day as a traffic/parking warden…😀

A 'Just Eat' driver waiting for his order!

Parking outside the flower shop is an absolute disaster for anyone trying to pull out from the green. There should be double yellow lines from that corner up to across from the church. As someone who regularly has to pull out of there I'm amazed there isn't more accidents. It's bad enough having the bus stop just by the flower shop (it should be moved to half way down the green) but then you usually have some twat parked right on the corner blocking visibility so you have to pull halfway out into a lane of fast traffic just to see around them.

Londis supermarket, Ballinakill S.C about 7 this evening. The only car in the car park, half in a disabled space, half in a regular space.