Wardens issue 36 parking tickets each day in the city

More than 36 parking tickets are issued in Galway City every day, new figures reveal.

Galway City Council has confirmed its community wardens issued a total of 13,196 parking tickets over the 12 months of last year.  That represented a 10% decrease on the number of parking tickets (14,683) issued within the city boundary in 2014.

The data was released to the Galway City Tribune following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.  In 2015, some 2,622 parking tickets were unpaid – that equates to one in every five parking tickets last year being unpaid.

However, the local authority clarified that about half – or 1,304 of the 2,622 – unpaid parking tickets, were pursued through the District Court.

The previous year, some 1,780 of the 3,514 unpaid parking tickets were pursued through the courts.

In addition to unpaid parking tickets, many fines for illegal parking were overturned on appeal.

Last year, 1,094 of the 13,196 parking tickets issued were overturned on appeal. That means 8% of all tickets issued were overturned on appeal.

In 2014, there were fewer appeals – 989. That represented a 6.7% parking ticket appeals success rate in 2014.

For more on this story, see this week’s Galway City Tribune