The Infrastructure Off-Topic Thread!

Tech3

If anyone here watches a bit of soccer on RTE this thread will make you laugh Link

mysterious

Anyone do some roadside planting?

I've done some on the old N7 It will look lovely when it's bypassed now.
I planted Ashes and red Alders.

Would any of you plant on the bare sides of the embanakements along motorways? Where the contractors didn't plant? Isn't some section's of the M8 bare?

Amtmann

Some motorway history here.

Amtmann

I saw some of the rudest behaviour on the M8 today southbound just south of junction 6. The motorway was extremely busy (much busier than I've ever seen it), and there was a northern registered car hogging the overtaking lane doing about 110 km/h, totally refusing to budge. I was three cars back and when people started to get impatient with the hogger and presumably started to flash her. She then aggressively hurled trash out her window (fast food packaging and bottles) deliberately to hit the car behind. I called the traffic watch number and reported the incident. Half an hour later I was at Fermoy, with the hogger still in my view and the Guards called me back saying they had parked up between Cashel and Cahir to catch the offending car, but couldn't see it. Useless of them!

Amtmann

I spend a lot of time taking RE and RB trains in Germany, and I'm always amused to spy a trainspotter perched on some bridge or rail side, camera in hand, to photograph the trains. It's definitely something I can relate to (I like roads), and while I was at Thurles train station last Sunday I noticed how nice the station looked.

But, for trainspotters out there who may be reading, can you explain what exactly it is about trains that makes you like them so much?

L1011

I see Lego City has better infrastructure links than reality, the timetable in the new (available for about a week at this stage!) 7397 Train Station has "Berlin, Madrid, Moscow, Dublin, Billund, Paris, Rome" as the destinations of the next trains

Typewriter

I want to go to Japan!

mk6705

Furet wrote: »

I spend a lot of time taking RE and RB trains in Germany, and I'm always amused to spy a trainspotter perched on some bridge or rail side, camera in hand, to photograph the trains. It's definitely something I can relate to (I like roads), and while I was at Thurles train station last Sunday I noticed how nice the station looked.

But, for trainspotters out there who may be reading, can you explain what exactly it is about trains that makes you like them so much?

It's very hard to explain. Some like the sound, others like the visual aspect. Others like the whole system including signalling and points and passing loops etc. It's an individual thing.

Typewriter

Just saw an add on TV there. It's a 'how to drive on a motorway' add by the RSA.

Finally!!!

Most Irish drivers are idiots, they need this.

On the way to and from Dublin last Tuesday (RATM:cool:) all I kept saying to the OH the whole journey was that such an add should b made.

rameire

green_jesus wrote: »

Just saw an add on TV there. It's a 'how to drive on a motorway' add by the RSA.

Finally!!!

Most Irish drivers are idiots, they need this.

On the way to and from Dublin last Tuesday (RATM:cool:) all I kept saying to the OH the whole journey was that such an add should b made.

ive seen the adds a few times this week now.
i contacted the rsa a good few months ago regarding mortorway driving and they said they would be doing it.
its about time, and they are during prime time tv slots so it will be seen by many idiot drivers.

Pete_Cavan

Hopefully these ads will have more of an effect then the ads telling people how to use a roundabout! I am always apprehensive on roundabouts because even when there are markings on the road telling people what lane to use somebody gets it wrong. Some people seem to think you can just use the inside lane whenever you want and then cut across the outer lane when their ready to get off.

rameire

just thought id share with you all what i saw today on the M50.

northbound on m50 at 5.10pm just after the n3//m50 junction, four cyclists walking back along the northbound hard shoulder towards the n3 junction, as i got nearer the n2 junction there were two garda cars there, they obviously stopped the cyclists and told them to go back.

then at 6.40pm me going southbound just coming up to the N4 junction, Three horses creating a rolling roadblock heading northbound.

all of the above were on the m50 motorway.

Stark

I've heard from people who are still stuck on the M50 on account of the horses.

KevR

People playing football on the M60 in Manchester: Link

:pac:

corktina

Adro947 wrote: »

It's very hard to explain. Some like the sound, others like the visual aspect. Others like the whole system including signalling and points and passing loops etc. It's an individual thing.

its a cross between sex-addiction and gambling.... that thril of never knowing what might appear next...

KevR

Chinese Water Project :eek:

• 800 mile-long channels
• They will draw eight trillion gallons of water a year from China's wet south and deliver it to the country's arid north. Equivalent to diverting the likes of the Danube or Thames to the other side of the continent.
• Cost: possibly reaching £50 Billion
• 400 Chinese cities short of water
• Activists say it could have disastrous consequences; it could alter rainfall patterns which would be devastating for farmers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-10650160

Hampshire workmen paint white lines around dead badger

The dead badger has been removed and the lines will be painted
Workmen painting white lines on a road left a gap for a dead badger because they said it was not their responsibility to move it.
The animal had been killed about a week before on the A338 near Downton, on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border.
Hampshire County Council said the workers did what they thought "was best" because it is the district council's job to remove carcasses.
The badger has now been removed and the painting will be completed on Friday.

I wonder if the white lines matched up with the badgers.

-Corkie-

I have found out what is wrong above in the bog as to why the work is taking so long..:D













:pac:

KevR

Was on the London Overground for the first time yesterday (only used it because I had to get to Wembley in a hurry and the Metropolotan line was closed).

The trains are the best commuter trains I have ever been on - incredibly spacious; the whole train is like one really long cylinder, there is nothing seperating the carriages from each other; air conditioned (unlike some parts on the Underground which can reach 45C in summer!); loads of railings for people standing to grab; really smooth acceleration/braking; the engines were really quiet (could barely hear it except a tiny bit when accerating/braking.

Pity about the connectivity with the Underground and mainline rail lines not being the best.

KevR

KevR wrote: »

Pity about the connectivity with the Underground and mainline rail lines not being the best.

Beeching had a lot to do with that! There are many examples along the Euston - Watford line where the mainline station was closed and just the tube station left.

Amtmann

Seen as how Neil Prendeville is in the news lately, here is some vintage material from his show.

Judgement Day

Furet wrote: »

Seen as how Neil Prendeville is in the news lately, here is some vintage material from his show.

I finally realised that I'm getting old when I heard about Neil Prendeville's escapades on the news yesterday and had never heard of him before in my life.

Wild Bill

Ditto JD!

Amtmann

Great video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD2Vr7lb-D4

crucamim

Can any poster tell me? How is the motorway which, as it approached Limerick, went through a deep and soft bog? Is the motorway still intact?

Wild Bill

crucamim wrote: »

Can any poster tell me? How is the motorway which, as it approached Limerick, went through a deep and soft bog? Is the motorway still intact?

It's fine - no problems....yet!:)

crucamim

Wild Bill wrote: »

It's fine - no problems....yet!:)

I was glad to hear that. Since then, the deep freeze has been followed by a thaw. Is the motorway over the bog still intact? If so, it will survive anything.

Amtmann

Where it all began...

dubhthach

Cloud computing is one of those Buzz-words ministers love to bandy about along with "Knowledge economy"

OurLadyofKnock

Shameless self promotion. I have just had my first major book published.

http://www.amazon.com/Puzzling-People-Psychopath-Thomas-Sheridan/dp/1905605285/ref=sr_1_1/183-0572085-6928830?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298463388&sr=1-1-spell

I was going to suggest it would be a good read on the train going to work but as there might not be many trains soon, eh the bath?