A nationwide survey of public car parking spaces carried out by tyre-maker Semperit has highlighted a significant number that are narrower than the recommended guidelines.
In its guidelines for car park layout, Dublin City Council states that a parking space should not be less than 2.4m wide. However when Semperit surveyed 20 of Ireland’s most popular car parks in Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Limerick, almost one in five (19 per cent ) of the spaces measured were narrower than the recommended width.
Paddy Murphy of Semperit Ireland said: “These results confirm what most motorists would say about the everyday experience of parking the car – it’s often very difficult to find a space with enough room for you and your passengers to exit comfortably from the car.”
Narrow car park spaces were found at each location surveyed, and some of the results show a significant discrepancy from Dublin City Council’s recommended width of 2.4m: 1.85m at Brown Thomas car park in Dublin; 1.89m at City Hall, Cork; 1.9m at Grand Parade in Cork, Arthur’s Quay in Limerick, and Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin; 2.2m in Eyre Square in Galway and ILAC in Dublin; and 2.1m at Dublin Airport.
