Municipal districts to rule on pay parking costs

Newly formed municipal districts in Co Cork will have the power to decide on introducing or axing pay-parking, but doing the latter will see them lose funding from Cork County Council.

The county council’s Transport Special Purposes Committee (SPC) has drawn up guidelines designed to get uniformity around the county, but that is unlikely to happen even with the promise of additional funding for towns which keep or introduce pay parking.

At a heated debate lasting several hours in County Hall yesterday, a number of councillors stated they would not introduce pay parking in their towns, no matter what the incentive was.