Introduce yourself

Irjudge1

I'm a civil/ structural engineer invloved in road design.

I commute by car 37 miles in each direction from Drogheda to the South side of Dublin (God every time I say it out loud a little piece of me dies inside).

I formerly commuted by train for circa 6 years, got sick of the cattletruck feel and now leave at unearthly hours of the morning / night to go to work in order to get home at a reasonable time in the evening.

secret_squirrel

Work for an airline at dublin airport.
Regular Dublin Bus commuter.
Occasional Cylist and Motorcyclist.

Chopperdog

Quantity Surveyor.

Our company carries out alot of Infrastructural projects in highway construction for Government bodies.

spareman

Employee of Bus Atha Cliath.;)

corktina

drive a truck
collect classic cars
have loved trains longer than i have loved my missus..
have loved buses even longer
considering therapy

pork99

West Briton wrote:

Memberships:

Fine Gael (foot slogger and door knocker)

ditto

D'Peoples Voice

Affliations - None, apart from to myself:D

I hate government intervention in anything! I'm a free marketeer!
Oh and I detest socialists, pinkies, I could go on...

Maybe my view of government intervention will change when someone in the civil service gets sacked when projects underperform!

DerekP11

<snip at poster's request>

Transport21 Fan

Independent Bigmouth and not not connected to anybody or any group. I think Transport21 for the most part is a super plan. But the tragic lack of cohesion/vision between the RPA and CIE on developing a Metro/Commuter Rail interchange at Glasnevin Junction is only major fault in the plan.

After years studying public transport in Ireland, I have come to the conclusion that CIE are the greatest disaster to have befallen Irish public transport. The politically-appointed CIE management (including the Union reps) have no desire to develop integrated modern public transport in Ireland as it gets in the way of they heart's desire to be major players in big time property development.

• The entire CIE staff across all sectors (not all, but most) are not public transport employees at all and do not see themselves as such either. The whole set-up is a cushy arrangement between CIE unions and management to scratch each others backs while a few buses and trains travel here and there to give the illusion of being a public transport company.
  
• The RPA and Connex on the other hand to me represent the lesser of two evils and all future capital investment in rail transport should be channelled into the RPA and not be given to CIE so they can build more office blocks and luxury apartments.
  
• The bus market should be open to all players and bus stops and bus lanes should not be the for the exclusive use by CIE buses.
  
• I am also very much in favour of regional transport authorities for Leinster, Munster and Shannonside which will have statutory powers.
  
• The Western Rail Corridor is a joke.

darkman2

Absolutely nothing to declare. I would like to see CIE and its unions obliterated though for the good of all the ppl who use public transport:mad:

popebenny16

Member of Platform 11. Writing here in a personal capacity. Serously brassed off intercity rail user.

Vorsprung

****e - I really should post on this thread! Member, but a not particularly active one, of P11

andrew163

IBM employee/student bum, depending on the time of year. Use the bus and train services alot.

popebenny16

popebenny16 wrote:

Member of Platform 11. Writing here in a personal capacity. Serously brassed off intercity rail user.

And now Publicity Officer for P11 but still writing here in a personal capacity unless I pay for an ad somewhere I suppose.

spacetweek

Public transport user and keen cyclist. Not affliated with anything.

Luas - Yay!
DART - Meh
Arrow - Gah
Dublin Bus - Boooo!

Thomas_B

My name is Thomas (seems to be a lot of Marks and Thomases associated with P11, don't know why), I was a member of the P11 committee. Now just a normal member of P11, and writing in a personal capacity. I'm from Limerick, live in Dublin. I work in the charity sector (not transport/planning-related), and I have no relevant affiliations apart from my membership of P11.

dermo88

Diarmuid, normal member of Platform11, writing in a personal capacity, which in no way reflect the views of the membership as a whole, or its commitee.

My opinions are my own, no conflict of interest.

Slice

I once paid a membership fee to the Dublin Cycling Campaign and got a badge for it but beyond that there's no conflicts of interest.

Irish and Proud

The reason I'm here is that I want to promote the completion of our inter-urban motorway programme, plus the Dublin Rail Inter-connector. I do support FF - one reason is: from a transport perspective, they are traditionally the people who get the most done, even if things fall behind schedule.

daymobrew

Keen cycle commuter and intermittent user of Maynooth line from Coolmine.
I sometimes annoy IE by posting useful signs on the platform in Coolmine or writing to the CEO Richard Fearn.

Committee member of my local residents association and attendee of Dublin 15 Community Council meetings.

IRISH RAIL

Guess this counts me out so
Inchicore Works Is the best in the world!!!!!!!!!:)

Victor

IRISH RAIL wrote:

Guess this counts me out so

You are welcome and perfectly entitled to post.

I just don't like the "Ryanair are the pits"-type posts from the anonymous workers of other airlines.

Slice

Quote:
Originally Posted by IRISH RAIL
Guess this counts me out so
You are welcome and perfectly entitled to post.

I just don't like the "Ryanair are the pits"-type posts from the anonymous workers of other airlines.

Love it

Mayo Exile

Work in public sector library. Not a member or affiliated to any organisation. Main interest is the road network. Living in Dundalk and going home to Mayo now and again, its pretty easy to see the state of our road networks in differing parts of the country. For example on Thursday next (August 2nd) the M1/N1 will become the 1st completed Interurban route in the South, while the N5 will be completed when????????

Pineapple stu

Irish Rail,but not the Traffic Dept.;)

jrar

I work in a private company with absolutely no affiliation or contact with any construction, engineering, designing, or planning aspect of what passes for a transport "network" in this country. Nor am I a member of any political party.

Just another voice/opinion, from someone who has travelled, lived, and driven abroad quite a lot, and who continually gets frustrated at the crap infrastructure and standards in this country, with no-one seemingly answerable for any of it !

Yours etc, Mr Angry.

dsane1

regular commuter new to the game.

SickCert

Bus Driver with that tttterrible operator Dublin Bus or CIE? Whatever.

I do my job to the best of my ability and my regular skulls (passengers) like me in return! I like my job and it provides me with a comfortable life.:eek:

Cheiftan

Site Agent for large construction company involved in large scale Civil Engineering.

Not a member of any political party

Regular commuter, N/M6 - M/N4 M50 etc, Athlone - Tallaght.