How CIE/IE Can make savings: Your ideas.

thomasj

dereko1969 wrote: »

but how many on it when there isn't a big gig or match on? do you keep a service running all year for the maybe 10 times it's packed?

When there aren't games or gigs on it suffices there are good numbers (most seats taken) does better on thursday,friday and saturday nearly all seats taken (4 coach train) but when gigs are on they are quiet packed.

Judgement Day

Last time of asking - could you please give me some suggestions!! I am really not interested in what time the last bus leaves Glandore at!!

Blanchguy

Running a business the Fastrack service was incredibly convenient. It's almost impossible to get same day service from a road courier

dereko1969

Judgement Day wrote: »

Ok - Time for some action instead of ranting. I am looking for your specific ideas of where CIE/IE can save money or increase revenue on the railways. I don't want suggestions about closing lines as they will be already under consideration from the An Bord Snip report. I will compile the sensible suggestions and forward same to Dick Fearn (CEO of IE) and Noel Dempsey and report back here. Any takers?

I'll start.

1. Reintroduce revamped a Fastrack parcels service with staff seriously incentivised to drum up business.

2. Remove the entirely underutilised 'Travel Centre' from the Glanmire Buffet in Cork Station and lease it to a private operator to run as a station buffet. Win/win - income from lease and major improvement for rail passengers.

3. Retain all remaining MkIII carriages and refurbish. Cancel some of the replacement railcars ordered.

4. Mothball any further withdrawn locos instead of scrapping. These could be hired to private freight operators should anybody dare put their foot in the water.

5. Axe excess management - PR department, railway heritage office, .....

6. Reduce size of rail timetable to a manageable size and include advertising.

7. Sell-off the computers (most never switched on!) from rural stations nationwide before they are obsolete. Probably too late!

8. Sell-off all IE company cars and buy no replacements.

9. Cancel all IE advertising - pending a rethink of objectives and cheaper marketing options.



Get the idea? I don't care how many ideas you put up I will collate them and forward them to the aforementioned worthies.


www.irishrailways.blogspot.com

how about coming up with some estimate of what your proposals will save? can't see any of them saving much money at all, and some of them will cost more money - how many extra passengers do you think have been gained by the marketing and advertising of IE's recent special offers? your cuts to those elements will save a pittance in advertising yet lose significant extra passengers.

DWCommuter

Blanchguy wrote: »

Running a business the Fastrack service was incredibly convenient. It's almost impossible to get same day service from a road courier

You'll get it, but you'll pay top dollar for it.

For example. Same day Dublin to Cork by Fastrack- station to station. Starting rate approx. €25.

Booking a courier for same day delivery Dublin to Cork - approx. €400 regardless of whether its an envelope or a pallet.

thomasj

Of course providing proper service after concerts sports events etc. would help as well!

For reference after the U2 concerts tomorrow night, saturday and monday there are no later DART services than the scheduled last ones and unsuprisingly folks on the Kildare line will have to find another way home.