Dublin limits offloading time
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• he days of drivers offloading goods and being required by store owners to stock supermarket shelves is coming to an end on Dublin's streets.
Under proposed controls trucks will be allowed to stop for only 30 minutes or metered loading bays. Until now there has been an unwritten rule allowing drivers unlimited offloading time.
"Delivery arrangements in Dublin are haphazard, uncontrolled and unsatisfactory to all concerned," says Dublin's traffic chief, Owen Keegan. He proposes to ban on-street deliveries by trucks above 17 tomes in the area between the city's two canals during business hours. For smaller units, parking will be provided on selected streets, where all kerbside space will be given over to deliveries until 11:00hrs.
For easier identification, coloured road surfaceg, footway extensions and signs will be installed in delivery bays.
Keegan also plans to introduce 12-hour clearways from 07:00-19:00hrs, Monday to Friday, on some streets. Except where there are on-street parking bays, deliveries on those streets will be restricted to 19:00-07:00hrs.
• Public Internet access to the Irish Companies Registration Office has been halted after an interlocutory injunction taken by the business information provider, CFI Online.
The injunction restrains the CRO from allowing web site access to information, which it maintains under the Companies Acts. until a full hearing of the action brought by CFI takes place in the High Court.
Direct access to company information remains available to callers to the CRO offices in Dublin.