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\nDublin City Council’s map showing the zones in its plan to tackle illegal parking in the city<\/p>\n
A focus on towing and fines instead of clamping for illegal parking is in operation in Dublin from today.<\/p>\n
The change of emphasis in dealing with illegal parking will see more patrols of enforcement officers, especially in the outer suburbs of the city.<\/p>\n
The scheme will also make complaints from business owners and residents central to its response in dealing with parked vehicles causing an obstruction.<\/p>\n
What is promised to be a more robust approach to enforcement comes on foot of a new \u20ac51 million five-year contract between the City Council and parking operator, Apcoa Group.<\/p>\n
The old contract, with Q-Park-owned DSPS, which ran for 22 years, ended yesterday.<\/p>\n
The new regime to deal with illegal and anti-social parking sees the capital divided into six separate geographic zones, each with its own enforcement patrols.<\/p>\n
There is a guarantee that at least one enforcement officer will be on duty in each zone during peak hours from Monday to Saturday inclusive.<\/p>\n
\nDublin City Council’s map showing the zones in its plan to tackle illegal parking in the city<\/p>\n
There will be reduced coverage on Sundays, Bank Holidays and during nighttime.<\/p>\n
Dublin City Council said the new arrangement will prioritise responding to complaints from members of the public about illegal and obstructive parking.<\/p>\n
Zones 1-4 are on the outside of the city. In these residential areas, patrols will focus on public complaints regarding parking.<\/p>\n
Zone 5, on the outer rim of the city, will have a focus on the movement of traffic with an emphasis on removing and relocating offending vehicles.<\/p>\n
Zone 6, in the heart of the city, will see its patrols operate on foot.<\/p>\n
Dublin City Council said that parking laws are not changing. The changes are about expanded enforcement built around an more area-based model for enforcing parking rules.<\/p>\n
According to the Dublin City Council website, the cost of de-clamping will be set at \u20ac125. The cost of recovering a towed vehicle will be \u20ac250. There will also be an additional storage charge of \u20ac35 per day.<\/p>\n
In September, Kenneth Murphy, parking enforcement officer at Dublin City Council said because it was a new contract, with a new provider and a new enforcement model there would be a transitioning period.<\/p>\n
“We expect to see the full benefits of the new enforcement contract in 2027,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A focus on towing and fines instead of clamping for illegal parking is in operation in Dublin from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-671596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}