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PARKING
Information session
IntroductionsParking position paperGovernment parking levyPark & (St)rideQuestions & answers
History of parking system
• Regularisation for safety reasons (2003)
• Coincidence of increasing demand
• Constant dissatisfaction
Reasons for constant dissatisfaction
• Insufficient parking (15,000 students, 1,500+ staff)
• Inequity of system (staff v. students)
• Inadequate provision for visitors
• Clamping/appeals
• Socially undesirable responses (early arrival; loss of family-friendly possibilities)
• Galway City Council Development Plan limits (1,600 spaces)
• Currently c. 4,600 permits (“hunting ratio” 2.9:1)
• Cost per space €8,000 upwards• Inadequacy of public transport• Lack of other “mobility management”
solutions• Differing perceptions of equity
Why do problems persist?
How do we currently allocate spaces?
• Staff 706 43%• Students 95 6%• Shared 658 40%• Pay & Display 79 5%• [Miscellaneous 62 6%]
• Shared: students – two-thirds to 80%; staff – one-third to 20%
Solutions
• Mobility management solutions
• Car parking solutions
• Other possible partial solutions
Mobility management solutions
• Travel Pass Scheme
• Car pooling and car sharing
• Public transport (dissemination of information)
• Public transport (lobbying)
• Cycling and walking
Car parking solutions
• Central multi-storey (rejected: cost; use of central campus location; increased traffic)
• Outlying Park & Ride– Cost– Shuttle bus cost– Inconvenience
Management position
• Full support for Park & (St)ride solution
• Need for self-financing of shuttle bus system– Constraints on University finance– Many competing priorities– Value per space up to €900-€1,500 per
annum
• Charge a basis for incentivising alternative behaviours
Union position
• Staff are critical stakeholders• Opposed to concept of self-financing• Concept of charging not ruled out
-provided not compulsory and tightly prescribed -provided equity between staff and students maintained
• Reduce student places• Eliminate use of shared spaces• Allocate to give 50% of current shared spaces to students• Restrict students to use of Dangan
Students’ Union position
• Recognition of students as primary stakeholders• Strategic aim of student-centred University• Important to maintain equity of allocation
-parking important for those living at home at distance
-parking important for those on crèche runs• Students are 88% of population, have 7% of spaces• Evidence of usage of shared spaces is evidence of
need
Alternative self-financing methods/charging methods
• Increase in P&D income (number of spaces and/or increased charges)
• (Higher) charge for main/south campus
• (Lower) charge for Dangan/Corrib Village/north campus
• Tendered payment for limited guaranteed places
Government parking levy
• Within designated urban areas (not yet specified)
• Part of tax system
• Unaffected by charges by employer
• Normally €200 per annum
• Reduces by 50% when hunting ratio > 2:1
• Reductions for work-sharing, etc.
Issues
• No charge for students– Classification between students and staff– Equity of overall arrangement
• Designation problems– Employer/physical area
• Whole campus• Campus excluding Dangan/Dangan and Corrib
Village• South campus
– Exclusion of car-pool area
Park and (st)ride
• Favoured over multi-storey car park solution
• Delay in planning permission (An Bord Pleanála)
• Appropriate standards required
• Shuttle bus desirable
• Cost significant