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Prime Time Piece on dublins transport

  • 15-09-2004 12:21pm
    #1
    jank
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    Anybody see it?

    Well here is the link go to the 14th minute unless you want to hear about Dana an co :)

    There is also a interview afterwards with the minister of transport

    Prime Time link

    Web link


Comments

  • #2
    John R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,107 ✭✭✭John R


    It is a sad state of affairs when the most sensible pro-public transport comments come from Conor Faughnan of the AA.

    Brennan as usual flat out lied on several matters and spun a pile of PR bull for the rest, without much challenge from an obviously ill informed interviewer.

    Pretty much what I expected from an RTE in depth report.


  • #3
    P11 Comms
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    John R wrote:
    It is a sad state of affairs when the most sensible pro-public transport comments come from Conor Faughnan of the AA.

    Brennan as usual flat out lied on several matters and spun a pile of PR bull for the rest, without much challenge from an obviously ill informed interviewer.

    Pretty much what I expected from an RTE in depth report.


    According to RTE when I spoke to them, they told me "the programme was about traffic congestion in Dublin and not public transport...."

    and people wonder why P11 are so angry most of the time. We deal with this mentality constantly.


  • #4
    dmeehan
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    typical RTE, surely someone in there must have realised that the two are obviously related


  • #5
    P11 Comms
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    That mentality is the norm right across much of the political and media specturm in Ireland when trying to have a discussion about public transport. I am sure that the producer of that programme was completely amazed and flabberghasted when Conor brought up public transport during the debate as RTE had assembled everybody in the studio to solve the traffic problem and that means more roads and nothing else. Platform11 was told by RTE that "the programme will not be about public transport".

    Just to show you how bad it is. A politician in this country who claims to be pro-public transport once said to me. "We have to build the Metro and get all the buses out of the city centre so people will be able to drive to work more quickly."

    We have been on countless radio shows and done many interviews were you were left with no other impression that these people believe that public transport is a means of making driving to work less stressful. There is a basic lack of understanding of what public transport even is in this country.

    That is only scratching the surface - we encounter this mentality day after day.


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