Dublin motorists were making good use of new “parking spaces” in a “free parking zone” marked out on footpaths in Phibsborough on Sunday morning.
The direct action, a form of protest, was carried out on the Phibsborough Road where a high level of parking on footpaths is a daily occurrence, including with “serial offenders” who are allowed to park for free on footpaths.
Campaigners were trying to prove an otherwise dry point of lack of enforcement. They ended up causing a case of art imitating life and life copying it back some motorists parked in the awkwardly marked out spaces.
Other drivers were finding it hard to stay within the lines and, finally, later in the day, there were more drivers parking on the footpaths than “parking spaces”.
According to social media posts the spaces were marked out with non-perimement materials, paints and chalk.
Just before 1pm today, I Bike Dublin, a direct action campaign group, tweeted: “The council obviously forgot to mark out these parking bays. I mean, they must be parking bays, right? Because if they weren’t, we know the council would not continue to let people park there with impunity. #D7CarbageCount #Phibsborough”
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Parking on footpaths 0n Nephin Road all day and all night,no consideration for people with disabilities and the blind,no cycle lane,yet a number of students cycle to Declans college
Whilst I hate footpath parking the group here in hindsight should not use a blue background as it makes then disability parking bays and could easily have confused a disabled driver to park there in error