[Wild Bill]

Originally Posted by Joko

Spamming a thread with photos is annoying for users on mobiles.

Actually annoying for everyone.

Depends on the photos and the context. I'm not annoyed, ergo, it isn't annoying for everyone

I would also oppose reducing the visual experience of PC readers just to facilitate mobile users.

[Mr Simpson]

Originally Posted by Joko

Spamming a thread with photos is annoying for users on mobiles.

Actually annoying for everyone.

Eh not really, some people may be interested to see how a project is progressing, and may not be passing it on a daily basis, somebody providing photos every now and then is great.

[cgcsb]

hardly spamming with perfectly relevant photos.

[Typewriter]

Originally Posted by Joko

Spamming a thread with photos is annoying for users on mobiles.

Actually annoying for everyone.

"Sit down! Sit down, you’re ruining it for everyone!"

[MYOB]

Originally Posted by Joko

Spamming a thread with photos is annoying for users on mobiles.

Actually annoying for everyone.

Use the mobile version of the site, which does not load images in-line.

[BowWow]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0427/met...s-on-hold.html

[Carawaystick]

Originally Posted by monument

Starting at Heuston going east the classical spacing is: 516m > 240m > 308m > 320m > 276m > 303m > 260m > 249m > (and the apparent error of the Loopline at) 12m. For the record starting at Islandbridge, it's 273m > 815m > 516m etc.

Now Beckett seems to confirm roughly the old spacing. It's 440m from the last bridge (Sean O'Casey) and the 900m or so left between Beckett and the Eastlink and allows for another bridge to be put in half way and still keep to that that roule of having around 450m between bridges.

The placment of the Talbot Memorial Bridge broke this rule. It has only 176m between it and Loopline. The Sean O'Casey Bridge placment also broke this rule at only around 230m from Talbot.

Same goes for the Millennium Bridge -- at only 126m from the Ha'penny and only 168m from Grattan.

The Frank Sherwin Bridge also breaks the spacing at only about 50m from the now tram and ped only bridge, the Sean Heuston.

So, the Loopline Bridge, Frank Sherwin Bridge, Talbot Memorial Bridge, Sean O'Casey Bridge, and the Millennium Bridge all broke the apprent rule. It's not just Joyce or the Marlborough Street Bridge.

I held my whist for a while but the idiocy of some ``classical'' spacing rule unexplained by the complainer has got to me.

I don't think the railway bridge at Heuston is listed, nor the defunct railway bridge near westlink.

Or even the two bridges at west link with their ``classical meter and a half spacing''



Anyway how is this bridge gonna be built? are sections gonna be cantilevered/arched from the structures in the Liffey?

At least there is work afoot on Hawkins st to get the bridge to align with the street, unlike the Millennium, Seán O' Casey, or Beckett bridges.

[youcancallmeal]

Originally Posted by BowWow

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0427/met...s-on-hold.html

There was some fella from the corpo on the news tonight trying to emphasise the new bridge is still 'badly' needed due to the bus congestion on Eden quay. Absolute nonsense, the old system worked fine!

[bk]

Originally Posted by BowWow

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0427/met...s-on-hold.html

Hmm, it seems incredibly short sighted to build LUAS BXD without preparatory works for DART and Metro, or to use one of the alternative LUAS BXD routes instead, even if the DU and MN don't start in the next 10 years, they will very likely start at some time in the future as they are good and needed projects.

Also 19 million to retrofit all red line trams to not use overhead cables seems very reasonable to avoid wires in the city center, I thought it would be much more, I really hope ABP force them to do this.

[dowlingm]

Wireless trams means exclusivity of vendor unless it involves energy storage (batteries/supercapacitors), has implications for future tenders if a ground power system (APS) chosen.

[MYOB]

Originally Posted by Carawaystick

I don't think the railway bridge at Heuston is listed, nor the defunct railway bridge near westlink.

Not a railway bridge. Private foot/cart/electrical cables bridge.

[robd]

Originally Posted by bk

Also 19 million to retrofit all red line trams to not use overhead cables seems very reasonable to avoid wires in the city center, I thought it would be much more, I really hope ABP force them to do this.

In the presentation given to IEI, already linked to this thread or Luas thread in this forum, a number of other reasons are given.

• Unreliability.
• Unsuitability to climate (doesn't like damp or snow).
• Unsuitability of route due to mixed traffic (only suitable for short distance on segregated route where time is a constant).

The reality that the Luas as is is an efficient and reliable system. Should be kept as is.

[bk]

Originally Posted by robd

The reality that the Luas as is is an efficient and reliable system. Should be kept as is.

Fair enough, then one of the alternative routes that completely avoided the fronts of our most historic buildings should be chosen.

Any way I never did think it made sense to split the lines, what a waste.

I won't be so sure that ABP won't force this issue, just like they have forced some sense with the childrens hospital.

[Aard]

Here's a post by transport planner Jarret Walker on the efficacy of a split line, like BX. http://www.humantransit.org/2012/02/...c-transit.html

Maybe not such a big deal here given that the distance between OCS and Marlborough is less than 150m (less than 2 mins' walk). Interesting nonetheless, and certainly applicable to many bus routes and their respective stops around the city centre.

[D.L.R.]

Originally Posted by Aard

Here's a post by transport planner Jarret Walker on the efficacy of a split line, like BX. http://www.humantransit.org/2012/02/...c-transit.html

Maybe not such a big deal here given that the distance between OCS and Marlborough is less than 150m (less than 2 mins' walk). Interesting nonetheless, and certainly applicable to many bus routes and their respective stops around the city centre.

The split I find baffling since
- we don't need a split due to constraints
- its more expensive
- its more disruptive
- we already have a wide road & bridge available (O'Connell St)

I really wonder about this country sometimes, and the mental abilities of those who rubber stamp these things. if you need more capacity, just build another bridge and divert buses to it. BXD is so inefficient and clunky..