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06-12-2011, 13:38 | #1 |
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Daily Parking rate up by 50% next Monday
Irish Rail have just given 6 days' notice of a 50% increase in the daily parking rate. You can avoid some of the increase by switching to Park by Text but they seem to nickle and dime their way up to an extra charge of around 50c per day with account maintenance charges, text message charges and "convenience charges".
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06-12-2011, 14:09 | #2 |
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East Cork stations
With this increase, the carparks at Midleton, Carrigtwohill, Glounthaune and Little Island should just be sold off, as they are currently not being used with the current charge, they are definitely not going to be used if the price goes up even more.
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06-12-2011, 14:45 | #3 | |
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http://irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=1256
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06-12-2011, 14:52 | #4 |
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This is disgusting.
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06-12-2011, 15:16 | #5 |
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It looks like the park by text is the only reasonable option for commuters. It is really annoying for me as I end up buying a lot of daily tickets as I usually only commute 4 days per week and also end up taking every third or fourth week off for travelling.
I can see the standard daily charge being a fiver before too long. The lack of notice is terrible behaviour - how is anybody supposed to budget in these times when Irish Rail put up charges on a week's notice? Between fuel, parking and the cost of keeping a 13 year old car I use for nothing else on the road, it now costs me more to drive 6 miles each way to the station that it does to take the train 70 miles. |
06-12-2011, 19:36 | #6 |
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Turn the stations and car parks over to the local authority in each town. Keep the cash local (all net proceeds from the car park to be reinvested in station upkeep, installing water/services for small retail units etc) and allow the LA to decide a charging regime appropriate to the locality (especially in towns where train parking is used by locals to park for business in the town as cheaper than on-street).
But maybe that can't happen now because the outsourced pay parking provider has been given a long hard to break deal? |
06-12-2011, 21:07 | #7 |
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Do they change in Waterford, they have the machiens there but they started to charge then it was dropped and now not sure if its back or what, don't see many cars with tickets.
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06-12-2011, 23:12 | #8 | |
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http://irishrail.ie/your_journey/carpark_information.asp
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07-12-2011, 07:00 | #9 |
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There is no notification of any change in Edgeworthstown station. Do they not have to give people some kind of notice? Twitter or website updates don't count for the majority of people.
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07-12-2011, 09:23 | #10 |
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Irish Rail has curiously deleted the story off the front page of its website (its still shown on the non public test site)
There is confusion as to this convenience charge, on one hand I've been told it won't apply to IE stations from Dec 12th on the other hand there is no mention of that in public.
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07-12-2011, 09:46 | #11 | |
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Well I still have the tweet and the link there still works.
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Also, I would love to know where they came up with "convenience charge" when to use the service you have to create an account, connect it to your credit card, top it up and send a text message every time you want to pay for parking. How is this more convenient than sticking two euro in a coin slot and putting a ticket on the dashboard? The only thing convenient about it is that NCPS don't have to empty machines or fix them quickly when they are broken. |
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07-12-2011, 17:17 | #12 |
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Is there anything we can do to fight this increase???
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09-12-2011, 14:07 | #13 |
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Again I ask is there anything we can do to fight this increase? It seems totally unjustified
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