The Junior Transport Minister says increasing the fine for parking on footpaths, cycle tracks and bus lanes will help better protect vulnerable road users.
From February 1st, the penalty's set to double to €80 euro.
New regulations doubling the fixed charge penalty for motorists caught parking on footpaths, cycle tracks and bus lanes will come into operation on Feb 1, 2022.
Illegal parking puts vulnerable road users at risk and undermines State investment in sustainable transport. pic.twitter.com/44QFdIZWYO— Eamon Ryan (@EamonRyan) January 6, 2022
Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Hildegarde Naughton, has pledged the fine will be strictly enforced:
"This is to ensure vulnerable road users, so pedestrians, cyclists, those with a buggy or people in wheelchairs."
The Dublin Cycling Campaign has welcomed the updated rules.
But spokesperson for the group Una Morrison says it doesn't matter if the fines are "forty, eighty or a milliom euro" if the rules aren't enforced.
