Having your car set in fire would be a more appropriate penalty for sticking it on the footpath.
Fines mean little if they’re not being enforced
Has anyone ever once been fined for parking in a cycle lane?
One time a few years ago I counted 37 cars parked between Sutton cross and Howth Dart station, all in the cycle lane. By chance there was a Gardai car parked at Howth Dart station and I asked them about it, and if they were going to ticket the cars (I was on a bike). Their response was “Well where else are they supposed to park?”
Now they also just need to fine cyclists for being arseholes on the road 👍
Can we add death by shooting for scooters on footpaths?
€0 x 2 is still €0
I walk along that stretch of footpath in the photo regularly and there’s permanently cars parked on it with no repercussions
This has to be properly enforced, the more city centres are adapted to discourage driving in them, the more pepe will just carry on as normal and park where “there used to be a parking space”. This is one part of the puzzle to help make city centres more pleasant.
They should get penalty points too
They need to include penalty points
Go to any school, any weekday and you’ll make enough money to pay for as many new childrens hospitals as you like
I remember absolutly fucking a delivery driver out of it for parking on a path, jesus….. had to have been about 14 years ago I’d say, because I was pushing my eldest in a buggy, and she’s 15 now…….
In hindsight I probably made too many references to his weight while hurling insults at him, not my finest hour, but I do recall being in a rally bad mood, and him just pulling up onto the path in front of me kinda tipped me over the edge.
Anyway…… yeah, don’t park on paths.
All the way up to €0, from €0.
No one bothers to enforce it.
Get a white piece of chalk or a white wipable marker. Then just run it along the side of the illegally parked car (or cars for real fun). No damage done but gives them one hell of a shock when they come back to the car and think they were keyed for the way they parked.
What if they have the ‘park anywhere’ lights on?
Jesus, they’d make a fortune.. if only the fucking thing was enforced.
Now I’m no mathematician but 2 * 0 is still 0. If they aren’t actually giving anyone these fines it does fuck all to stop them
Even 80 is too low. 250 I would say
I’d rather the Gardai spent time dealing with the roaming gangs of scum than waste their time with trivial stuff like this.
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I know, all things have to be looked at, but the issue of “anti social behaviour” (which is a generic blanket terms that seems to cover everything from graffiti and robbing a bike to petrol bombing houses and blinding someone for life) is getting far too out of hand and the Gardai are still far too focused on soft targets.
They should pay people commission to fine these guys (10% cut) but if they fine incorrectly they pay double the fine value
“I take your fine and raise you a “park anywhere” hazard light!”
Parkers, Probably.
Creating adequate, affordable and close parking spaces would solve this. There are too few parking spaces in most towns and cities and the ones that are there are often tiny or inconvenient. Walking more than 50 / 100 meters to deliver / collect something heavy is unrealistic in most cases
I’ll happily take the fine. There are long “cycle paths” in ireland that are just straight up dangerous, with no thought or planning going into them.
Santry Road is a good example, cyclists have to share the lane with busses and trucks who have left the port tunnel to go to the airport and many physically can’t see the cycle lane from their truck.
The “safe” part of the cycle lane moves up onto the path outside the driveways if peoples houses. The only thing is these driveways have hedges so you’re not able to see when the residents are reversing out of their gardens which open out onto a cycle lane.
The road is also covered in potholes and have these foot deep slopes next to the shores, but that’s not theworst part.
The old bungalows and cottages further up the road dont have driveways, so the residents park their cars outside their house which is on the path/in the cycle lane. You have to cycle with trucks for about a km.
Fining cyclists for trying not to die is just easier than actually building cycling infrastructure.
Not worth a shite if it’s not enforced. In the villages of the country parking on footpaths is rampant and very little happens about it. It’s infuriating when pushing a buggy or walking kids and you’ve gotta go on the road to pass
Who do we call when we see this that will enforce the fine?
ENFORCE THE RULES.
It’s incredibly simple. Camera and video technology is there but a bunch of luddite decision makers refuse to use it. Scan cars should be the norm for parking enforcement, not some guy wandering around on foot. Rotterdam has just 8 scan cars for the entire city, and they work. Other traffic violations like bus lanes, red lights, and mobile phones can all be enforced with near complete coverage by ANPR cameras, but we don’t do that either because reasons.
We can have a system where you get a fine the second you enter a bus lane or mandatory cycle lane.
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Now they just have to start implementing them
Having your car set in fire would be a more appropriate penalty for sticking it on the footpath.
Fines mean little if they’re not being enforced
Has anyone ever once been fined for parking in a cycle lane?
One time a few years ago I counted 37 cars parked between Sutton cross and Howth Dart station, all in the cycle lane. By chance there was a Gardai car parked at Howth Dart station and I asked them about it, and if they were going to ticket the cars (I was on a bike). Their response was “Well where else are they supposed to park?”
Now they also just need to fine cyclists for being arseholes on the road 👍
Can we add death by shooting for scooters on footpaths?
€0 x 2 is still €0
I walk along that stretch of footpath in the photo regularly and there’s permanently cars parked on it with no repercussions
This has to be properly enforced, the more city centres are adapted to discourage driving in them, the more pepe will just carry on as normal and park where “there used to be a parking space”. This is one part of the puzzle to help make city centres more pleasant.
They should get penalty points too
They need to include penalty points
Go to any school, any weekday and you’ll make enough money to pay for as many new childrens hospitals as you like
I remember absolutly fucking a delivery driver out of it for parking on a path, jesus….. had to have been about 14 years ago I’d say, because I was pushing my eldest in a buggy, and she’s 15 now…….
In hindsight I probably made too many references to his weight while hurling insults at him, not my finest hour, but I do recall being in a rally bad mood, and him just pulling up onto the path in front of me kinda tipped me over the edge.
Anyway…… yeah, don’t park on paths.
All the way up to €0, from €0.
No one bothers to enforce it.
Get a white piece of chalk or a white wipable marker. Then just run it along the side of the illegally parked car (or cars for real fun). No damage done but gives them one hell of a shock when they come back to the car and think they were keyed for the way they parked.
What if they have the ‘park anywhere’ lights on?
Jesus, they’d make a fortune.. if only the fucking thing was enforced.
Now I’m no mathematician but 2 * 0 is still 0. If they aren’t actually giving anyone these fines it does fuck all to stop them
Even 80 is too low. 250 I would say
I’d rather the Gardai spent time dealing with the roaming gangs of scum than waste their time with trivial stuff like this.
​
I know, all things have to be looked at, but the issue of “anti social behaviour” (which is a generic blanket terms that seems to cover everything from graffiti and robbing a bike to petrol bombing houses and blinding someone for life) is getting far too out of hand and the Gardai are still far too focused on soft targets.
They should pay people commission to fine these guys (10% cut) but if they fine incorrectly they pay double the fine value
“I take your fine and raise you a “park anywhere” hazard light!”
Parkers, Probably.
Creating adequate, affordable and close parking spaces would solve this. There are too few parking spaces in most towns and cities and the ones that are there are often tiny or inconvenient. Walking more than 50 / 100 meters to deliver / collect something heavy is unrealistic in most cases
I’ll happily take the fine. There are long “cycle paths” in ireland that are just straight up dangerous, with no thought or planning going into them.
Santry Road is a good example, cyclists have to share the lane with busses and trucks who have left the port tunnel to go to the airport and many physically can’t see the cycle lane from their truck.
The “safe” part of the cycle lane moves up onto the path outside the driveways if peoples houses. The only thing is these driveways have hedges so you’re not able to see when the residents are reversing out of their gardens which open out onto a cycle lane.
The road is also covered in potholes and have these foot deep slopes next to the shores, but that’s not theworst part.
The old bungalows and cottages further up the road dont have driveways, so the residents park their cars outside their house which is on the path/in the cycle lane. You have to cycle with trucks for about a km.
Fining cyclists for trying not to die is just easier than actually building cycling infrastructure.
Not worth a shite if it’s not enforced. In the villages of the country parking on footpaths is rampant and very little happens about it. It’s infuriating when pushing a buggy or walking kids and you’ve gotta go on the road to pass
Who do we call when we see this that will enforce the fine?
ENFORCE THE RULES.
It’s incredibly simple. Camera and video technology is there but a bunch of luddite decision makers refuse to use it. Scan cars should be the norm for parking enforcement, not some guy wandering around on foot. Rotterdam has just 8 scan cars for the entire city, and they work. Other traffic violations like bus lanes, red lights, and mobile phones can all be enforced with near complete coverage by ANPR cameras, but we don’t do that either because reasons.
We can have a system where you get a fine the second you enter a bus lane or mandatory cycle lane.
Should be death penalty