clamping at train stations

[Colm Donoghue]

I havn't been clamped or anything before I start.
IE opened a new carpark at rush and lusk a few months ago. New clamping signs went up then and the yellow box access route was widened. The new clamping signs have a clamping company name on and an 081 (?) phone number, no address or anything. There is no public phone at the station as far as I can remember.

previous to this, in the lusk carpark, cars perpendicular parked in marked spaces and then cars parallel parked in front of them in two rows. the layout wouuld have been something like
platform - ditch - yellow boxed acces route - car parallel parked - car parallel parked - space to get out - car perpendicularily parked - back ditch.

A few weeks ago two cars were clamped for parallel parking beside the yellow box. I couldn't see how they were causing any obstruction. one of the drivers was borrowing a mobile phone of the other driver as I passed.

I was wondering what the situation would be if someone came home on a (delayed by screaming middle aged take that fans ) train at midnight to find their car clamped in this situation. bearing in mind it's about a mile to Lusk where there is no public phone afaik or more than two miles to Rush but there's no continuous footpath to Rush.

I could see some sense in clamping (well towing away) if people parked causing an obstruction, AND people parking in a similar fashion across the tracks on the Rush carpark who paralle park in the centre of the carpark were dealt with in a similar fashion, but there hasn't been anyone clamped there to my knowledge.

what's the story with this style of clamping? seems to be a revenue generation excersise more than enforceing proper parking. and what's with the dodgy phone number to get declamped? and no phone to contact them.