Dublin retailers suffer from ‘over-enthusiastic clamping’
30 August 2013
Calls are being made for Dublin City Council to ease parking restrictions because of what is being dubbed ‘over-enthusiastic clamping’.
Retailers in the Rathmines area of the city claim parking enforcers are making €1,000 a week from one short section of the main street alone.
Tony Greene, a barber on the street, said it is hurting business because customers are so nervous about getting clamped.
"It’s a big problem in Rathmines, it seems to have intensified and we are losing customers at a terrible rate," he said. "They’re coming in from outside the town to do a bit of shopping in the area and they are jumped on by clampers. They are very over-enthusiastic and it’s just a major problem really."
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