Car Parking in Dublin City
January 1, 2009
Parking in Dublin can be a bit of a nightmare, but with this guide you’ll know where exactly to park your car so that it’s safe and secure and above all, legally parked.
Dublin city is small and compact so at rush hour it tends to get congested. It’s easy to walk around from attraction to attraction so be sure to park-up the car as soon as you arrive, as there really is no need to drive around this city centre to sight see.
Tow-away and clamping are in operation for those who park in a loading bay, pedestrian area, on double yellow lines, on a disabled parking space, on a bus lane or cycle track, so car parks are really the best option.
Dublin city has over 20 car parks, which are very well placed whether here for shopping or sightseeing.
Here are some of the main car parks in the city centre.
· Abbey Street car park
The Abbey Street car park is located on Lower Abbey Street, just off O’Connell Street (Dublin’s main street) in the city centre. This is a very central location for visiting attractions like Trinity College, Temple Bar, the GPO and also for shopping on O’Connell Street and Henry Street.
· Parnell Centre car park
This car park is located just off Parnell Street. Parnell Street can be found just off the top of O’Connell Street (opposite end to O’Connell Bridge).
This car park is handy if you want to be close to the Gate Theatre, the Ambassador Theatre, the Dublin Writers Museum or the James Joyce Museum. This car park is also within walking distance of Croke Park stadium.
To get to this car park just take a right after the Virgin Cinema on Parnell Street and take another right on a small street called ‘Loftus Lane’ and you’ll see the car park.
· Drury Street car park
This car park is located on Drury Street and is best approached from Stephens Street Lower. It has about 480 spaces and is very convenient to Grafton Street, St. Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, the Powerscourt Shopping Centre and the Gaiety Theatre.
· IFSC car park
This car park is located in the Irish Financial Services Centre, which is the city’s core business and financial district. It can be found in the docklands area about a 10-minute walk east of O’Connell Bridge. The car park has about 360 spaces and is ideal for attending events in the IFSC or for visiting attractions along the Dublin docklands like the Viking Splash Tour, the Famine Memorial, the Custom House or the Point Depot.
· Christchurch car park
The Christchurch car park has about 212 spaces and can be accessed from Lord Edward Street in the Christchurch area.
This car park is ideal if you want to park-up and stroll around one of the oldest parts of Dublin and explore attractions like Dublin Castle, Christchurch Cathedral, the City Hall, St. Audoen’s Gate and it’s also not that far from Temple Bar.
· Temple Bar car park
Also known as the Fleet Street car park this car park can be found right in the heart of the city centre, just off Westmoreland Street. It’s convenient to Temple Bar, Grafton Street, Trinity College and O’Connell Street so it’s a popular place to park.
This car park is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
· Jervis Street car park
This car park has up to 750 spaces and is adjoining the Jervis Shopping Centre – one of the biggest and best shopping centres in Dublin. It is accessed from Jervis Street. This car park is ideally located for shopping as it’s also very convenient to Henry Street, which is one of Dublin’s pedestrianised shopping streets.
· Stephens Green Shopping Centre car park
Stephen’s Green has one of the largest car parks in the city centre with up to 700 spaces. It can be accessed from Mercer Street and is open 24 hours a day.
This car park is ideally located for shopping as it’s located next to the Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre just off Grafton Street, so you won’t have too far to go with those shopping bags!
Mairead Foley writes for the Ireland travel and accommodation website http://www.GoIreland.com
Visit GoIreland for all you need to know before visiting Dublin, like what to see and where to go. View B&Bs, guesthouses and self catering in Dublin as well as Dublin hotels.
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Safer Parking award from the British Parking Association
December 28, 2008
Westfield London, the capitals newest shopping centre, has been awarded a Safer Parking award from the British Parking Association (BPA) within its first six weeks of opening. Europes biggest inner city shopping and leisure destination received Park Mark status at a recent ceremony for providing a safe parking facility with 4,500 spaces.
| Car park manager, Gary Lee was presented with the Park Mark Award from Sector Inspector Paul Banbro of Hammersmith & Fulham Metropolitan Police Borough. PC David Hinton was also at the presentation. The team is directly responsible for the Policing of the Westfield London Shopping Centre.
The Safer Parking Scheme (SPS), run by the BPA for the Association of Chief Police Officers, was developed to provide a benchmark standard for all parking areas across the UK, to create safer parking both for the public and their vehicles. The Park Mark Safer Parking Award is granted to parking areas that have achieved the requirements of a risk assessment conducted by the Police. These requirements mean the parking operator has put in place measures that help to deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour, thereby doing everything they can to prevent crime and reduce the fear of crime in their parking area. |
| Gary Lee said: We are delighted to receive Park Mark status in the opening weeks of the new centre. We are committed to the highest level of customer service, and with Christmas due to be our busiest time, it was vital to provide all our shoppers with a safe and reliable parking facility while they enjoy the new centre.
The shopping centre in Shepherds Bush has a vehicle management system to indicate parking availability and also offers a valet parking service for the convenience of its customers. Kelvin Reynolds, head of SPS at the British Parking Association, said: With the number of Park Mark awards on the increase – we now have over 3,700 members – it proves that the scheme is an invaluable tool in helping to make parking environments safe and increasing public reassurance in these areas. When drivers leave their cars in Park Mark award facilities they will find them exactly as they left them on their return.
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Make 3 on 1 the new Wöhr Parklift 421 offers 200 % more parking space on the surface of only one parking place.
November 19, 2008
A compact solution where ever for retrofit additional car parking places are required and the parked cars can be manoeuvred: For hotels, offices and for any commercial use such as car dealers and service centers, car rentals, car-sharing or for valet parking in high halls or outside.
And how does the system work? Quite simple!
Each level is filled up one after the other in lowered position and emptied the same way. The parking system has 2 platforms. First the upper one is used, then the lower one and then, once both platforms have been lifted, the cars are parked on the floor surface.
The lifting and lowering is provided hydraulically by means of a key at the operating device. Multiple Parklift 421 systems can be arranged next or behind each other. Platform widths up to 2,7 m, parking heights up to 1,8 m and platform weights up to 2,6 t are available, sufficient for SUVs and bigger sedan cars.
Source: Otto Wöhr GmbH
http://www.woehr.de
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How to park in Istanbul
November 19, 2008
Here are some advices to drivers about parking in this city of Turkey
If something amazes Istanbul tourists – besides the beauty and the antiquity of this unique city and the Turks” good nature – that is driving skills of local residents. Probably, only Istanbul citizen can turn around on a tiny patch, and leave the traffic jam within the shortest terms, moreover, without touching anybody. Conditions oblige! Istanbul is an ancient city; it has a lot of small close streets. Willing or not, you will learn. We, tourists, will never learn to drive like Istanbul people do. But, besides driving, we also need to have a place to park our cars, so, if we decide to come to Istanbul by car, we are in need of hotels in Istanbul with parking area. Therefore, we should remember some advices about such important for Istanbul procedure as parking.
Advice â„–1: get used to the car
You, certainly, will not take your car to Istanbul. Tourists, as a rule, hire cars (in Turkey this is not a problem – rent a car service it is cheap and quickly). This is good, and this is… bad. The matter is, that on the parking of any Istanbul hotel it is better to park the car, to which you have got used. Parking – especially in close conditions of the Istanbul roads – passes better, when you feel car”s sizes or the car by itself, as drivers say, well. Therefore, to park the car correctly, try to get used to it.
Advice â„–2: pay attention to the drive gear
All wheel-drive cars have the biggest turn radius, and the rear-wheel drive cars have the smallest. As you understand, this is the key point of the parking.
Advice â„–3: practice.
You may be a really skilled driver, but, anyway, it would not be desirable to pay for scratches on the hired car. That is why it will be better, if you spend an hour or two practicing in parking. You will not need much for this. Skilled instructors will advise you the following. To train the parking elements the same as maneuver “driving into the garage” is practiced, for example. Practice until you develop the absolute automatism of actions. Train parking in forward and back run, in parallel, perpendicularly and at an angle to the curb.
Advice â„–4: do not forget about headlights
Another advice from the skilled drivers – use headlights while parking the car. At the forward parking blink the upper beam at the critical for you line. The size of the beam of light on the obstacle and its brightness the same as any parking radar will help you to define the distance to the granite curb or to the next car bumper. While making the back parking use for the same purpose the stoplights, light from the lantern or a shadow from an obstacle.
Advice â„–5: look around
Istanbul is a great city, but you do not know it yet. Therefore, you will have to park in the unfamiliar places. In such cases, before parking, thoroughly examine the place of your future parking and the entrance to it.
Advice â„–6
Parking your car on the roadside – fold your mirrors, and take along everything valuable. Well, and if you do not wish to burden yourselves in Istanbul even with parking – just stop at a hotel where it is. In that case, – be sure – your car will be parked by the hotel employee. And they will do that quickly and professionally.
Source: http://www.turkeyTPS.com
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Stress-Free Parking at Luxemburg Airport
November 6, 2008
At the new terminal of Luxemburg Airport, a new car park management system of Scheidt & Bachmann was installed.
At the new terminal of Luxemburg Airport, a new car park management system of Scheidt & Bachmann was installed. In two separate major parking areas, an indoor car park and the so-called Kiss & Fly car park, there are about 4100 parking lots available to flight passengers and staff members of the airport.
The integrated parking guidance system permits quick orientation. The vacant parking lots are very quickly detected by means of direction notes and displays.
The new underground car park extends through four levels and has direct access to the airport terminal. Six entries and six exits ensure short distances to the parking lots. A single lot detection sensor is provided above each of the 4000 parking lots in the indoor car park. If the sensor shows a green light, the vacancy of the parking lot can be recognized already at a great distance. The visualization of the occupancy status consequently permits evaluations on the utilization frequency of certain parking areas, and measures to increase the attractiveness and utilization of these areas can be derived.
Source: Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH
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