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| Author | Date | Message |
|---|---|---|
| Liam Vines | Jan 17 2024, 7:45pm | As promised information and pricing structure for parking at race venues where IMRA have to pay for parking. €4 for a single person car €3 for two people €2 for three people Free for a full car (4+) We will be using a Sum Up machine to take payment. This will be a tap and go (NO CASH) So have your phone or card at the ready. This is not a money making exercise more a way of pushing the carpooling idea. Find a few friends to travel with. All race pages will have a carpooling section use it. Work with us on Sunday morning as we get this new system up and running. Liam V |
| Liam Vines | Jan 17 2024, 9:07pm | If anyone is worried about anything I have mentioned above feel free to get in touch with me races at imra dot ie Also Non running volunteers will not have to pay for parking. You can still carpool tho.. |
| Conor O'Farrell | Jan 17 2024, 10:09pm | What about if my car is full, with only 2 people? |
| Aidan Hogan | Jan 18 2024, 8:48am | This is a great idea. Well done for bringing it in. On a related note, the car pooling option that's on the website for years is also great. As a culchie with occasional carless work trips to Dublin that sometimes coincide with Wednesday night league races (entirely coincidental of course!), I've availed of it a few times and it's brilliant.. And I've also used it to offer lifts to Munster races, albeit the uptake there seems to be lower. There have been occasions though where I've needed a lift to an upcoming race but there hasn't been any way to post that request on the website. Would it be difficult to amend the website carpooling section to allow people to post lift 'requests' as well as lift 'offers'? I imagine there might be others out there who would benefit from this too. In short, your reward for bringing in a positive new initiative is some fella asking you to do even more work! |
| Harold Perez | Jan 18 2024, 10:08am | I second that Aidan, that's a great idea. |
| Eamonn Hodge | Jan 18 2024, 10:19am | If you fill a 7 seater you could be paid! Also, great idea about lift requests Aidan! |
| Francis Conroy | Jan 18 2024, 12:50pm | I agree it's a great idea if you live in Dublin, and have one of these 'tap cards' etc. I don't have one of these tap cards and use cash, I'm also not aware of any other IMRA runners living nearby - will I be turned away from the organised (if there is one) car park; I do buy a carbon credit for every race I enter. |
| Olwyn Sheehan | Jan 18 2024, 1:23pm | Hi Francis, a group of us from the Lakeshore Striders are carpooling from Hollywood on Sunday morning at 9:30am, you are very welcome to travel with us. Olwyn |
| Alan Ayling | Jan 18 2024, 5:19pm | Francis - fair point you make; the means of payment (like a lot of things) won't suit everyone all the time. So... one of the things we're trying to promote is getting people carpooling from NEAR the event to the event itself. We're trying to get meaningful/helpful info to that effect onto the race pages & forum (give us a chance on that one please!). So, whether it's your car or someone else's, as long as one of the occupants can stump up the e-readies to the SumUp machine, you can sort out the split between yourselves, be it in cash, Revolut, valuable tips on running sock choice... whatever. Oh, and our parking marshals will be trained to look out for anyone attempting to use inflatable dolls, mannequins etc as "passengers" ;-) |
