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THE COST OF parking in Dublin city is to increase by 30 cent per hour from next Monday, 15 July.
This is the implementation of a change to bylaws that were voted for by Dublin City councillors in February of this year.
The cost will increase from €2.90 to €3.20 in the yellow parking zones, and from €2.40 to €2.70 in the red zones, marking the first time parking costs have increased since 2008.
The changes will also include an expansion of “high-demand” yellow and red zones across the city from next Monday.
The changes mean that parking charges will increase in the area of Phibsborough around the Mater Hospital, in Kilmainham, near the South Circular Road and Dolphin’s Barn, south of the city centre in Ranelagh and Rathmines, and to east of the city near the 3Arena.
“The rationale is to reflect the increased demand for parking in those areas,” the council’s Transport committee was told at the time.
For Parking Tag users, yellow zone charges will increase from €2.90 to €3.10 while red zone charges will increase from €2.40 to €2.60.
- with reporting from Cónal Thomas
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Been going into town for 25 years. Stopped going last year due to crime levels and soaring car park fees. Won’t use public transport due to anti-social behavoir and crime. Used to shop in Arnotts every Saturday. Not any more.
@Sean Hyland: great story. Would be a great movie too
@Anto Curran: That’s extremely funny. Well done.
@Anto Curran: did you come up with that one all on your own Anto? Only asking because I don’t think I’ve heard that one before.
@Anto Curran: great reply, you should copyright that in case someone plagerises it into a spurious reply.
@Sean Hyland: but do Arnotts still sell Manpons ?
@Ronan Dunne: Did Arnotts get woke?
@Ronan Dunne: careful, I got banned for saying mangina
@Sean Hyland: without even looking at the stats I’m confident that you’re more likely to be a victim of a crime in your own home than on a train or bus
@Sean Hyland: bye bye
@Sean Hyland: this is why we need our Real Directly Elected Mayor accountable and Responsible for transport housing economy crime and rehabilitation we are finally getting our Citizen’s Assembly to agree how it will work!
@Anto Curran: good one anto lol
@Sean Hyland: Nice piece of fiction
Seriously, what is it with these councillors, they are normal people until they get their worthless backsides into an office and then they instantly turn into pure A/H ‘s.
@tommytukamomo: these policies are to used to decrease car usage.. not to make money.. you haven’t a clue lol.. without parking charges Dublin would be a lot worse .. sit down
@tommytukamomo: It might just be that, when they sit down with the planners, engineers, traffic managers and similar, that they realise that the problems are a)real b) apolitical and c) unpopular solutions are, in fact, the best ones available.
@bill2345: are you for real or what… Seriously!!!.
This is a revenue stream and nothing else.
Dublin council make €30,000,00 plus per year on parking and passed the motion last year as a revenue collecting plan.
You can dress it up what ever way you like but like yourself a “sows ear is a sows ear” no matter what way you look at it.
Now you sit down buddy.
@George Salter: No,It’s admitted that it’s a revenue stream.
@tommytukamomo: hahaha imagine if parking was free everywhere.. you wouldn’t be able to move .. clearly uneducated .. stay sitting
@bill2345: my goodness you really are a Sow’s ear aren’t you.
What part of the statement do you not understand .
The council make €30 + million on parking and it was decided last year to increase the revenue stream by increasing the parking fees.
@tommytukamomo: they’re also reducing the number of on street parking spaces. More than 100 turned I to bike working last year. Is that also to generate money?
Cars should be discouraged from entering the city. This is a good move.
@John Moloy: I’m not a cyclist but I would love to see more cycle lanes along with cycle repair facility’s.
It would help all road users by giving better facility’s and making roads safer for all users.
@bill2345: Cant decrease car usage until they start providing a usable public transport, Here is a complete shot in the dark, make public transport run at all the times people need instead of just part of the week
Before long you won’t have change from a fiver .
Handy bill – no coins
Nobody think ahead in that comedy club council about the people parking around hospitals at least lower the price at visiting times. But no that’s too easy. There should be a real Dubliner running this city. After all who understands the city better than someone who has lived here for a minimum of 40 years. But no that seems like it would actually work we can’t anything like that
@HONEY BADGER180: Hardly – What is needed is someone who understands the city and its needs today, not what they were 40 years ago.
@HONEY BADGER180: your desired councilors are probably already in there then so, as building heights haven’t increased since 40 years ago.
@Gavin Conran: Are you stupid today or every other day you moron. I said somebody who has lived in the city for 40 years minimum. Someone with experience of the city. It’s in there blood there bones and they only want good for the whole city. People like you shouldn’t be allowed out you make the city look stupid.
@HONEY BADGER180: I think you’ll find that most Dublin City Councillors are over the age of 40, and have spent most if not all if their lives in Dublin. And by the way, would you not be in favour then of seeing fresh young people with new ideas in politics, to clear out some of the old guard?
Dublin business RIP
@Willie Bill Bryan: Funny that there has been an increase in demand for parking when they have routinely removed parking spaces in recent years with many being lost to the Dublin Bike scheme.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for bikes and other forms of transport but if capacity is reduced, it should be replaced and increased with multi-story or underground alternatives.
@Cynical: Enough of that multi story building. You know Ireland is opposed to anything over three floors
RIP us if something isn’t done about congestion and pollution in the city. Maybe we can all drive into the city to pick up our asthma and emphysema medicine. (See the EPA report published yesterday). If the city removes cars and becomes people friendly the city and it’s businesses will thrive.
Constant begging, sky high parking, crime, cops nowhere to be seen, it’s sad to see the capital in such disarray, wouldn’t go near the place.
Robbery!!
@Sean Leonard: Wait till congestion charges start. What will you say then.
@Sean Leonard: cheap at the price, first increase in 11 years and still subsidised by the taxpayers.
@Sean Leonard: have you seen the cost of parking in New York? 30 dollars an hour in Manhattan Monday to Friday.
@Peter Cavey:
Jeepers! $30!
@Peter Cavey: anyone who uses a car to get around Manhattan needs their head tested, brilliant transport system in the subway, although I was a little piffed that I couldn’t just walk to the edge of the sidewalk raise my hand or whistle and a cab would instantly pull up to me like in the movies…. :(
@James Wallace: What exactly is subsidised by taxpayers? The paint on the road for the parking spaces?
Road maintenance is covered by fuel, parking and motor tax
@Vin: no s
@Vin: no such thing as “motor tax” Vin.
It’s called road tax ok and everybody pays it thru general taxation
@Peter Cavey: thats rubbish, park your car anywhere in manhattan for 25$ for 12hrs of the day
@Peter Cavey: 1 Lev (50 cent) an hour in Burgas and Sofia. No charge for Saturday or Sunday. And that’s with a far superior public transport service. The poorest country in the EU does so many things far better than Ireland.
@Jazz Buckler: But the website is literally called Motortax.ie
@Jazz Buckler: There’s no such thing as motor tax? Damn, I’ve been buying this silly disc for years for no reason
Any sign of wages going up
@Shaun Gallagher:
Yes, for the councilors.
@Shaun Gallagher: Certainly is, I’ve yet to see councillors or TDs refuse a hike in expenses and pay. So I would say yes very likely for them. Us plebs can pay for it all, isn’t that what we all do!
Easy pickings to hammer the sick and elderly trying to get a parking spot around the Mater. It costs nearly €30 now in parking fees per day for a A&E appointment there so simply bang up the charges further as it’s good revenue for the council.
@GrumpyAulFella: €15 per day of you park in the hospital car park
What would you expect from that two wheeled parasite Owen Keegan.
@Paul Howard: Love it Vive le Velo !
I was just thinking to myself how reasonable car prices, tax and insurance are. We were getting away with bargain parking prices for far too long. What a wonderful country for outstanding services. Real bang for your buck here it is
Amsterdam €11,50
@Gerben:
To be fair we probably should compare to a city with a similar level of mass transport.
@Gerben: if you drive in Amsterdam parking is the least of your worries
@Gerben: yes, but at least u get a happy ending
Car park to expensive Too Greedy to Cllr pocket
I hope they also greatly increase the fines and enforcement of illegally parked cars, especially the ones parking on foot paths.
“To reflect the increased demand in these areas” so in other words, theres no actual cost to increased demand, its not going to cost us, as these areas were always pay and display, but it will cost you, we noticed people want to use them more so being the greedy so and so’s that we are, we just decided to up the price. The prices are in line with car parks in the city as it is, all this is, is another way to get more money from the peoples pockets as usual.. Better off in Blanchardstown, free, Liffey Valley, free, even Dundrum have a very cheap car park! Id rather steer clear of the zombie land tat is Dublin City Centre
@Christine Hanway: ‘Free’ parking means that everyone pays for the costs of parking, Christine, including those that travel by bus or walk. The shopping centres with ‘free’ parking are forcing their non-driving customers to subsidise their driving customers. It’s not unreasonable to expect motorists to pay to store their own private property.
Yet another expense for the stretched people of this ridiculously expensive city.
A third of the living wage !
Great… Will cost more to go to work.
Ecology has obviously nothing to do with it.
@Dominic Leleu: Why would you expect to use public space for storing your private property Dominic?
The city would be so much better with fewer cars. They should be removing significant amounts of on street parking as well as increasing prices.
if it includes recovery 1.40 is great value for parking in the sea
We are getting robbed at everything in this country…and that will kill even small businesses more
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