More Luas tomfoolery

seamus

Originally posted by Victor
Then why does it reload every time you add an individual piece of information.

Because it's badly written.

cormie

did anyone else try and touch the screen just incase the buttons worked? hehe

Victor

Originally posted by Superman
But it is handy for gettin from connoly to heuston, because in order to go on train from galway to waterford you got to go to dublin first then go to the different station and get a second train.

For Galway - Waterford, you can change at Kildare / Newbridge of Heuston, Connolly is useless to you unless you are going to Wexford or Belfast.

Monty - the one and only

Moved to transport/commuting

jd

Originally posted by Victor

No wonder there was an accident today.

Any truth in the rumour it was a 4x4/SUV?
jd

seamus

Originally posted by jd
Any truth in the rumour it was a 4x4/SUV?
jd

Nope. Twas a small car. An eighties micra or fiesta.

Naos

Originally posted by Victor
I saw a muppet drive her car up Harcourt Street from Stephen's Green today, turned every head on the street.

10 seconds later a guy half parks in a yellow box junction, when I suggested (OK, heckled from the far side of the street ) he move out of the way of the on-coming tram, I was told "maybe you should too".

No wonder there was an accident today.

ROFL! What a comeback eh.. he must have felt so smug

Originally posted by cormie
did anyone else try and touch the screen just incase the buttons worked? hehe

yeh.. my finger's sore. if only this was america i could sue luas ..

Victor

Originally posted by Mear
ROFL! What a comeback eh.. he must have felt so smug

Well I suppose there was a risk of the tram derailing at under 5kmh, crossing the track and mounting the footpath, crashing through the light pole and pinning me to the ground ..... or maybe the was an errant granny in a wheelchair, speeding down the footpath.

BrianD

It seems to have given the same attention to detail as the rest of the Luas project.

Perhaps you might want to elaborate on this pretty lazy remark

Furthermore, is this demo flash thing available for the general public to find or is it something that the geeks amongst us are likely to find? I haven't seen it on their website.

Hagar

You accuse me of a lazy remark and yet it appears that you didn't click on the link or read the responses of those who did ?????

The site is poorly designed.
The Luas is late and over budget.
These facts are self evident.
And that your honour is the case for the prosecution.

BrianD

I did read your post but obviously didn't read mine!

In response ...

The site is poorly designed

Lazy answer. Why? The site may not win any awards but it is straightforward, informative aand does the job.

The Luas is late and over budget.

It may be late but Minister Brennan would disagree with the over budget bit according to his radio interviews during the week. The €200m was an initial estimate and not a contract price. I have no knowledge what the contract price is.

These facts are self evident.

What facts...very easy to write this one liner, eh?

The fact that a flash demo of the ticketing machines is hardly the end of the world!! Is it still accessable via a link on the web site? Perhaps the developer was testing his wares.

dazberry

Originally posted by Superman
The red line is going to be far far more ghetto! Such tasteful places as fatima > rialto > suir road > golden bridge > drimnagh > blackhorse. Oh yeah, it also ends up in tallaght. I think its handy the way their are two hospitals on the line! Handy for when ya's gets tha stabbin's.

Subject to ban-age from Victor for attacking the poster as apposed to the post - Superman - you really come across as a knob is that statement. Unless Victor asks me to explain this, I really couldn't be bothered to otherwise.

D.

Superman

Originally posted by dazberry
Subject to ban-age from Victor for attacking the poster as apposed to the post - Superman - you really come across as a knob is that statement. Unless Victor asks me to explain this, I really couldn't be bothered to otherwise.
D.

here! what! i didn't attack poster at all! I was just pokin fun at the red line which i think is going to be a recipe for disaster.

please tell me who/what I offended!

Victor

Originally posted by dazberry
Subject to ban-age from Victor for attacking the poster as apposed to the post

You get your wish. PM me next weekend.

Superman, while yes some of those areas do yes suffer from deprivation and ghettoisation, you are being a bit broad and insulting.

Sarsfield

Superman, is it not a good thing to see investment in deprived areas? Or should only wealthy areas be in receipt of Government investment?

Maybe we should only build schools and hospitals in D4 and Malahide from now on?

I have no doubt that scumbags will travel on the Red Line. But so will normal decent people.

I don't want to get banned, do I won't make a personal comment

Superman

I was just making a joke!
Besides its pretty hard to sugar coat some of those areas. never once did I say they shouldn't of put the luas there. I think it is good for those areas but will be a bit more dangerous than the other line.
All I said about those areas being ghetto was "The red line is going to be far far more ghetto! ", and lo! Victor actually agree's with me "yes some of those areas do yes suffer from deprivation and ghettoisation"

I think you all need to stope being so prudent and take a joke, the right way! If i wanted to offend everybody I could of wrote a far harsher post!

BTW I think banning is extremely childish, "Oh no! I don't like that post, I think i'll send the poster to the bold corner" - why don't you just give me lines , i can see it now : I will not post messages thst critisize anything x 50

Superman

Originally posted by Sarsfield
I have no doubt that scumbags will travel on the Red Line.

yet another person agree's with me!

pork99

Originally posted by l3rian


thats right pork99, even Pyongyang has a decent metro, just compare the north korean dictatorship's nice public transport system to our rubbish map above

If we had a command economy and thousands of political prisoners to use as expendable slave labour I'm sure we could do the same

LFCFan

wasn't there already incidents of rock throwing at the LUAS on the red line during testing?

Hecate

If we had a command economy and thousands of political prisoners to use as expendable slave labour I'm sure we could do the same

It's probably Kim Jong's personal transport system between his various "palaces of the people", I'd love to have a country I could treat as my own amusement park the way he does...