At the end of the day, parking is not sustainable. For Dublin DART/inner suburban stations, they should be torn out and replaced with development and feeder services/pick-up drop-off zones. For outer suburban you're probably going to need a car park because of insufficient density but feeders should be possible in places like Drogheda.
As for free parking in Mullingar, if IE is raking in money along with their private company partners, how long will it take the local council to realise they're missing a trick, especially when their constituents complain there's no parking because out of town commuters are all over the road?
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