Transport 21 Website

jjbrien

Did anybody go onto the http://www.transport21.ie/map.html website. It seems its only has 2 pages one the home page and the other one the map and thats it. You cant click on any of the links if you do it will lead to either 1 the homepage or 2 the map. There doesnt seem to be anyting else on this site. Do they not want the public to get information on it?

MarkoP11

A senior civil servant from the DoT promised 'something' a few months back at a public meeting, a full site should have been available ready to roll in November but alas no, since as we all now know the government did a serious rush job adding in bits at the last minute to ensure key Dail seats got something. The site has only appeared recently and appears under construction

I'm serious when I say this url http://www.platform11.org/transport21/ has the most detailed listing and breakdown of public transport in T21, there is a lot more to come, I've even got costs on most projects with references some even from the companies involved themselves

Diaspora

Nothing against Platform 11 but you really shouldn't be capable of being in that position

paulm17781

Diaspora wrote:

Nothing against Platform 11 but you really shouldn't be capable of being in that position

Correction. We shouldn't have to be in that position.

Keyzer

Diaspora wrote:

Nothing against Platform 11 but you really shouldn't be capable of being in that position

What?

That site is a bloody disgrace...
Can they do nothing right?

Diaspora

I presume you are talking about Transport 21?

dam099

jjbrien wrote:

Did anybody go onto the http://www.transport21.ie/map.html website. It seems its only has 2 pages one the home page and the other one the map and thats it. You cant click on any of the links if you do it will lead to either 1 the homepage or 2 the map. There doesnt seem to be anyting else on this site. Do they not want the public to get information on it?

That site looks like a mock up someone has done for pitching purposes thw whole front page appears to be one image file, it's questionable whether they should have put it live on the web at that URL.

SeanW

Yeah, the page is pathetic, but then again TBH so is the so-called "plan" it details.

Victor

I suspect there will be changes. www.rsa.ie went active in the last hour.

1. airtransport21.com whois record / website
2. dublintransport21.com whois record / website
3. transport21.com whois record / website
transport21.net whois record / website
4. transport21autorecycle.com whois record / website
5. transport21c.com whois record / website

www.dublintransport21.com has been registered with HostingIreland.ie. Web Hosting in Ireland and Irish Domain Names Registration for .ie, .com, .net, .org, .co.uk and other domain names.

http://gerryosullivan.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_gerryosullivan_archive.html

Fewer Jams Tomorrow?
| 3 Comments | Trackback (0) Published Tuesday, November 01, 2005 by Gerry O'Sullivan.

The government's 10-year plan to completly overhaul the transport infrastructure of the State was launched with great fanfare today. (After hours of searching, I still haven't managed to find a site that details all the proposals. You'd think that for a launch like this, they would at least have taken the url www.transport21.ie and put the flippin' thing online for the plain people of Ireland to see.)

The key issue around all of this is delivery. If FF and the PDs cannot get a significant amout of this plan implemented in the time frame stated, their reputation will be shot to bits. The National Development Plan comes to an end next year, with many of the transport projects (including all of the the promised inter-city motorways) nowhere near completion. Delays due to planning difficulties and other reasons, along with cost overruns have had a major impact on the delivery of the original NDP.

At least this new plan is a step in the right direction. Transport policy in this country has long suffered from a serious lack of long-term thinking. Take the Luas for example. Who made the decision that the two lines would not intersect? If you look at the tram system in Bordeaux, which was built at the same time as the Luas, the three lines there all interconnect, so it is entirely possible to travel all over the city by tram. Only now is it dawning on the powers that be that the non-linking of the two Luas lines wasn't such a good idea after all, and so we have to spend even more to put it right.

Similarly the M50. It took about 15 years to build that road, and before it was even finished it was already inadequate for the traffic flow that was using it. Now it will have to be widened and the major junctions upgraded, again costing a bloody fortune. And that's without anyone in Government even attempting to do something about the car-park that is caused by the toll bridge. Just wait till the Port Tunnel opens. That is when the M50 will reach breaking point. There will be queues every day from the toll bridge back to the M1. And as for the port tunnel itself, which can only accommodate trucks up to a certain height. In a couple of years time, someone will decide that maybe they should make the tunnel bigger after all. And when that job is done, they'll move Dublin Port up to Balbriggan.
Then there's the Atlantic Highway or whatever it's called. Atlantic Pie in the Skyway more like it. I honestly cannot see that one being finished all the way from Letterkenny to Waterford in my lifetime.

And what's the story with the Western Rail corridor? It will take nine years and that will only get it as far north as Claremorris. Wasn't this supposed to be about linking things up? Surely they can manage to get the last bit from Claremorris to Sligo done as well, which would take in Knock Airport. I don't understand all this delay on the WRC. The land upon which the tracks are laid is owned by the State, so there won't be any delays due to CPOs or planning. It should be one of the easiest and fastest elements of the plan to implement, yet it's taking nine years and won't even be completed in full.

I'm looking forward to having a more detailed look at the plans in the papers tomorrow.

notjim

well its obviously a mock-up; the front page, www.transport21.ie, has

"this could be a flash presentation with . . "

though obviously its a bad sign that they intend to have flash.

Victor

I can find three files in all.

Navan Junction

I hate that London Underground look to the mock-ups..

Is red the international metro colour? Despite having been on a few in other countries, I can't remember..

spacetweek

notjim wrote:

well its obviously a mock-up; the front page, www.transport21.ie, has

"this could be a flash presentation with . . "

though obviously its a bad sign that they intend to have flash.

"NEWS HEADLINE"
"veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper"

What in God's name did they go live for. Hang the Webmaster...

Bards

www.transport21.ie is Now displaying the hosting site as opposed to the main page.

MarkoP11

Just proof people high up are reading

spacetweek

MarkoP11 wrote:

Just proof people high up are reading

You might be right! All this time I thought no one cared about our little obsessive discussions.

Come on, own up. Who emailed the webmaster?

Diaspora

Heuston we have a problem www.transport21.ie

Why cant we have a website like this