Gardai blitz illegal parking in cycling lanes around one Dublin city street

Gardai from a Dublin roads policing unit caught the driver of this car parked illegally on a cycle lane. It was one of nineteen cars spotted parked in this way around just one street in the south inner city early today (Photo: Garda Twitter)

The Garda has targeted drivers parking on cycle lanes in one
part of Dublin city and has promised further similar actions.

A total of 19 drivers received fixed charge penalty notices
in the operation by the Garda’s Dublin Metropolitan Region Roads Policing unit.

That operation was carried out on Friday morning. Furthermore,
a further wave of enforcements was promised for Friday evening.

However, news of how that second phase went was not yet
available at the time of writing.

Gardai to their official Twitter account to publish photos
of the enforcement operation.

“DMR Roads Policing today carried out an operation targeting
drivers parked in cycle-bus lanes on Cork Street, Dublin 8,” it said.

“In total 19 motorists received FCPNs. We will be carrying
out a similar operation in this area again this evening. Please respect cycle
lanes.”

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The fact gardai were out penalising drivers illegally
parking on cycling and bus lanes will be welcome by cyclists.

Enforcement in this area – cycle lanes – has been poor in
the past with even the Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan calling for more
action.

He said there appeared to be a lax attitude towards targeting
illegal packing in cycling lanes in Dublin and some other parts of the country.


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