Dun Laoghaire brought to a standstill

I read the article When a Town Shuts up Shop.

The writer did not see the bigger picture. It is not just the recession that is “ruining businesses” in Dun Laoghaire. The town has endured a decade of bad planning and no planning.

Since 2008, we have endured chronic parking regulations. Parking enforcement in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown was granted to a private company, APCOA, with the proviso that it would get 44,000 tickets per year. The town was marked out for pay-and-display bays and yellow lines put everywhere.