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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,490 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Victor, you were a bit slow updating us on your recent inclusion into the platform 11 fold.

    I'm sure you will have a rapid rise to the top.

    What is your current status in the organisation. And, is it something the readers of the board should know about?
    Hi,

    Apologies, I don't read every post.

    Yes, I joined Rail Users Ireland at the start of 2009 and became Local Liaison Officer at the AGM earlier this year. I thought that was all public knowledge, I even got a few congratulatory PMs from people here. Certainly its no secret that I have been campaigning on transport issues for years. I never belonged to Platform 11 in that incarnation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,709 ✭✭✭jd


    Commuter with a yearly bus/dart ticket (taxsaver)

    Travel quite a bit up and down to Wexford, also to different places around Ireland (fishing!)

    Have some interest in transport but no qualifications in the area,did engineering in trinity (not civil)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Added to my membership of the RPSI i'm now a member of the ITG too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    I'm just a regular train and bus user who occasionally posts here.

    Have no affiliations with any organisations whatsoever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    lord lucan wrote: »
    Added to my membership of the RPSI i'm now a member of the ITG too.

    There's really no hope for you! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭buzzwell


    Probably apparent from my past outbursts, I run a transport business, and have a taxi licence.

    There is no real organization in the country to which bus operators are members of, so I put up some info here if I think it may be of use to others in the same field.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37 GiddyUp86


    Occupation: Off Street Enforcement Officer (For scangers that means CLAMPER) Will most likely be a taxi driver come April 2011

    Views: I can see my house from here! and some taxi's!

    Correction: Bleedin' loads of taxi's


  • Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭med1


    member of bcdr working member rpsi

    founder of website http://irishtransport.yuku.com/directory
    irish road passenger forum for enthusiasts workers etc to discuss the current transport users in ireland

    also run the fotopic site http://diograisimbusagustraeinrailsection.fotopic.net/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭thebigmc


    Hello, I'm an Architecture student, but I don't consider that a conflict of interest

    I'm a Cycle commuter around Dublin and would like to see a widespread increase in cyclists and decrease in private car use across the city.

    I've lived in Amsterdam and would like to see Dublin learning some bicycle related lessons from the Dutch, where everybody cycles a bicycle, whoever they are

    I own a few bikes and I travel by rail and Dublin bus occasionally.


  • Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭baileye


    I am involved with Hit The Road

    Hit The Road is a journey planner for Dublin, we search Dublin Bus, DART, LUAS, and we plan on having all forms of public transport available soon.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭micka


    Operations and Finance Director at GoCar CarSharing Ltd. Ireland's only 'pay as you go' CarSharing company. Operating in both Dublin and Cork.

    See www.GoCar.ie for more info.

    Mike Newham.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    I thought I had posted here long ago but obviously not.

    No conflict of interest. Work in accounting for a non transport industry.

    Ex long term user of Dublin bus and odd time DART. Little need since I finished college and walk/cycle/drive everywhere.

    Strong interest in DB operations, notably south Dublin, Dun Laoghaire and N11 corridor routes as well as IE.

    Interest in most mechanical aspect of transport (buses, trains, ferries etc) as well as policy.

    Model railway enthusiast, particularly IE stock. :)

    oh, and I hate Trevor Patton, he's a stuck up, arrogant bastard even when just having a pint in the local :mad: (used to live in Dalkey)

    Update: Newly Registered member of ITG


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,223 ✭✭✭overshoot


    occupation-student and a waiter/barman
    views - bike faster in dublin, car faster everywhere else
    no ties to any transport companies/campaigns


  • Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭reggaeman


    BusEireann driver. But hopefully it will be Privatetized and we will get a more professional Managment Team.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 great1


    currently not employed, bored and trying to keep sane (fighting a losing battle)...anyone got a job for me?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,490 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    great1 wrote: »
    currently not employed, bored and trying to keep sane (fighting a losing battle)...anyone got a job for me?
    Experience?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 great1


    Victor wrote: »
    Experience?

    chance would be a fine thing!


  • Registered Users Posts: 14 EoghanGetthere


    I develop GetThere.ie

    Timetable information for major transit providers in Ireland. Carsharing and carpooling.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭galwaycyclist


    I work in IT for a very large multinational

    I am a member of the Galway Cycling Campaign
    I am a South of Ireland Rep for the Cyclists Touring Club
    I am also an editorial board member of the Bicycle Helmet Research Foundation www.cyclehelmets.org
    I am a member of the Army Reserve which precludes me from involvement in party politics
    (I drive a red van when not cycling)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 Blackvault


    I'm a student, currently doing a Computer Science degree at Queen's Belfast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,239 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    I never posted my colours to the mast here so.....

    I'm a current working member of the RPSI and the Downpatrick and County Down Railwayl I am a member of the IRRS and I am also the current chairman of the Irish Heritage Railway Group, a group undertaking a study to examine suitable location/s and viability plans for potential preserved lines in Ireland.

    My Dad was a inspector for Irish Rail while my brother in law is IR staff in the Whest of Ireland. I am a former taxi driver and a regular bus user and occasional Luas and train user.


  • Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭Drimnagh Road


    Diesel loco and hauled stock enthusiast. My hobby / interest in railways in Ireland purely was about the (previously interesting) fleet of loud locos and ramshackled stock they used to haul. I hate Irish Rail as a company.

    I couldn't give a flying fiddlers about what railway lines have closed, are closing, and will close in Ireland. Once the modern plastic buses on rails came in to replace the 071s / 201s and mk3s that was the end for me..

    Once a few lines remain open so I can continue to enjoy one or two railtours year that are hauled by 071s, I will be happy with that.

    Run a little website called www.drimnagh-road.com, other than that, I'm not affilliated to any organisation connected with transport.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭Niles


    Working volunteer with RPSI (Dublin). Have ordinary membership with DCDR, IRRS and the ITG but no active involvement. Regular Bus Éireann user, sometime IÉ user but living near the Rosslare line that takes a bit of encouragement when you look at what the bus offers.

    My younger self had an interest in "gricing" but not so much now. Don't worry I'm not one of these people who bemoans IÉ's deployment of railcars and thinks we should keep locos and carriages on everyday services just for the sake of it - far from it. Outside of preservation my main rail interests these days would be more from a consumer point of view than an enthusiast one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 keyzer.souze


    Im a Luas Tram Driver, and a reluctant member of Siptu. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 Arriva Trains Wales


    I am an employee of ATW, which has been verified by a moderator, however I do not work in Customer Relations or Marketing. My sole intention in posting here with this user name is to provide accurate information and correct facts from a position of genuine 'insider knowlege', rather than for any commercial gain for my employer. Indeed, it is probably in breach of company policy to engage in dialogue through this type of social media, however I felt it was important to clarify certain issues being raised by posters and the reasons behind them.

    I have no intention of participating on this forum to promote any form of travel over any other, or any UK train operator over any other.

    My main reason for following the transport and infrastructure sections on boards.ie is personal - I have only relatively recently moved from Ireland to the UK and still have a keen interest in what is going transport-wise on the other side of the Irish Sea.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 Transport Fiend


    Occupation: Transport Consultant

    Posts are purely of a personal nature and have no relation to the views or work of my employer. I just hope to give a little more insight into transport matters and keep abreast of Irish Transport Matters.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭Bonus_Pack


    Occupation: Civil engineer, working in consultancy (not on rail related project at present)
    Memberships: ITG, IRRS, IRN, EI
    Proprietor: Stationary Engine Spares (IRL)
    Location: Adjacent to LJ/WD line between MP 40 and MP50

    I am a stationary engine and railway enthusiast. I post as a private individual and do not represent or express the opinions of my employer. All my posts are my own personal opinions.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32 DixNeuf


    Hi all,

    No real vested interest other than that of a daily rail commuter. Subjected to the highs and lows of rail travel, alternately impressed by quality service and baffled by IR/IE behaviour.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16 Privatise


    Hi, I've been on boards for a while under a different name. I have not participated in any meaningful way in this forum under that name.

    However my company STS are taking BES and Bus Eireann to court to open up the Student Transport Scheme for private operators therefore I want to seperate my private messages and opinions from that of my business.

    BES should read DES


  • Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭cabincrewifly


    I'm working with DAA

    Interested in public transport and aviation

    I'm a daily user of Bus Eireann (I know poor me) as I don't drive


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  • Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Sligo Quay


    Iv worked in shipping logistics for most of my life, lost my job in Bell lines when it went into liquidation, I now work for another shipping company which I prefer not to name, Iv worked for several since my departure from Bell, Im not her to talk shop and I don't walk on water, Iv an interest in the connection with rail, I tired of arrogant truckers who think they know everything and haven't a clue of their biggest threat, that is, if the railway ever get their act together, Im off for a pint.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 367 ✭✭The Idyll Race


    I am a full time carer for my father, and am studying for an OU history degree. I have a lifelong interest in transport history, especially the canals and the railways and am a member of the IRRS, though I've rarely attended and have only spoken to a handful of people there. Avidly read the Journal though. No real interest in what pulls trains, moreso the social history and provision of services, and how the official vandalism of the system made it hugely expensive to restore services when wanted.

    I use contemporary primary sources when working on a particular period, so am interested in spin which in retrospect turns out to be BS. Transport investment has had a lot of that but thankfully online newspaper access means that yesterday's spin can be proved to be today's spoof.

    For ten years I was involved in local politics as an organiser and campaign manager and have an understanding what works in Irish local politics, and what doesn't. Nowadays no political affiliation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭Wote


    I have worked in railway project management since the late 1980s for London Underground and now Network Rail.

    Did attempt to join IE a few years back but never had a response from them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,209 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Long time reader of this forum and now member. I'm currently working abroad (in media) but retain a big interest in transport issues in Ireland. I'm not a member of any groups, but I have a keen interest in railway history and recent developments on the network.

    Not very exciting. Sorry.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 16 BALLHOPPER


    Retired BE driver


  • Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭Temp101


    Of relevance to transport is that I am a member of DCDR, IRRS, ITG and SRS.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 17 Road12


    I am a member of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Road12 wrote: »
    I am an active volunteer for the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland

    Funny this post clearly stated DCDR earlier on - not an easy 'mistake' to make. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Road12 wrote: »
    I am a member of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland

    So you've suddenly become inactive in the last few minutes? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40 Iolaire


    I should declare as a member/volunteer of both the ITG and DCDR.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 771 ✭✭✭seanmacc


    Been posting here a while without declaring my conflict of interest

    I work in operations for one of the ferry companies that operates out of Dublin Port.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 108 ✭✭The Skulls


    Am posting here as i feel I must clarify something, I've recently been mistaken/accused by another poster of being someone/something I'm not. I'm a regular bus user, occasionally use the train, mostly cycle. I'm not involved in transport & work as a forklift driver. I'm not a member of a trade union & have never been. I'm also not a huge fan of CIE but I just get in with it. To the poster who seems to think he knows who I am, reading some of your posts you are quite sad & need help. If you're an example of what drives a bus then I weep for CIE's future as you strike me as a bitter little man. However given the vitriol this toad has directed towards me I feel it best if I deactivate my account. Thanks for your help Victor. To the man whose name begins with M, I might not let this go.

    Matthew Walker.


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