Motorists pay the price for illegal parking.
In the first year that Dublin Corporation introduced new parking controls, 21,000 cars have been clamped in the city.
Clamping began on the streets of the capital in August 1998. Dublin Corporation are very pleased with the results. Car owners have to pay £65 to have clamps removed from their vehicles. A further 5,000 cars were towed away at a cost of £130 to their owners.
The Corporation are very pleased with the results.
Neil Cunningham from Dublin Corporation outlines the main benefits of clamping to motorists. The measures mean a lot of short term parking spaces in the city centre have been freed up. Dublin Corporation now plans to extend the clamping beyond the confines of the city between the canals.
It is not just cars that cause obstruction. The placing of skips on roads around the city is also a source of obstruction and the council now has a means to remove them.
Dublin Corporation has published an information leaflet in four different languages to inform motorists exactly where they can and can not park.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 11 August 1999. The reporter is Sinéad Crowley.
