Vote your favourite station

Judgement Day

Irish Rail's wonderful competition is here again and now you can vote for Broombridge or better still Wellingtonbridge which is also listed.

Details here: http://irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=525

foggy_lad

vote wellington bridge number 1:D:D:D

Cookie_Monster

free dart for a year, not much of an incentive the majority of people.
I'm going to vote on the basis of least worst


EDIT: just showered Broombridge in glory :pac:

Zebra3

High 5s all round for Broomer. :pac:

Oliver1985

It seems there is a bit of wagner x-factor style campaign going on here for Broombridge :eek:

TheChrisD

And yet I love the fact at how there's no Hansfield, Dunboyne, or M3 Parkway listed...

Maybe if Hansfield did get listed, we could all go vote all 5's for that

L1011

Staff appearance = 5, no chance of any ugly staff at Broombridge

Run_to_da_hills

Thread title should be edited: "Win a holiday and embarrass IE management at the same time".

foggy_lad

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Thread title should be edited: "Win a holiday and embarrass IE management at the same time".

embarrass them?? they are the laughing stock of europe, how could anyone in ireland embarrass them more than they do themselves!

DDigital

Its rigged anyway!

mojesius

Sweet +1 for Broombridge.

Transportuser09

As wonderful a station Broombridge is I think I'll give my vote to Wellington Bridge.

Breezer

Broombridge FTW.

dowlingm

wellington bridge ftw

Terrontress

We need to get all our momentum behind one station, be it Wellingtonbridge or Broombridge.

Personally speaking, I'd love to see their press release if Broombridge won.

Then the Last Word could highlight the issue of the state of the station.

CIE

Wellington Bridge here.

Cookie_Monster

Broombridge +2
:pac:

foggy_lad

Pick a station that is open or votes won't count but I'm sure the winner is already in the bag.

Oliver1985

Wellington Bridge is gone of the list!:(

Mushy

Prize now changed to weekend away! Oh, and Broombridge +1:pac:

Run_to_da_hills

Oliver1985 wrote: »

Wellington Bridge is gone of the list!:(

That proves that someone from CIE's admin is earwigging this forum. :P

Cookie_Monster

Broombridge +3

ongarboy

You wonder if there was a serious Wagner/Xfactor type campaign and Broombridge did actually get the highest number of votes, would IR have to acknowledge BB as the winner? Bet you not!

Slightly off topic but does anyone know why BB suffers from such a lack of passengers considering it has a large population catchment area of Finglas and Cabra on it's doorstep? Is it that the bus services in those areas are superior and more efficient to get into town? I know the condition of the station is offputting but if I thought it got me into town 10-20 mins quicker than a bus, I'd tolerate the visual unpleasantness of it.

Jehuty42

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

That proves that someone from CIE's admin is earwigging this forum. :P

No it doesn't, I told them about it on their Facebook page. So it could be either of our two reasons, or neither.

Cookie_Monster

Jehuty42 wrote: »

No it doesn't, I told them about it on their Facebook page. So it could be either of our two reasons, or neither.

They probably monitor it though, why wouldn't they. DB drivers have confirmed DB depot mgt browse here...

Judgement Day

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

That proves that someone from CIE's admin is earwigging this forum. :P

Ok - I'll come clean, my real name is Barry Kenny.

Judgement Day

Like Fianna Fail's tradition - vote early and often - as IE's high tech site appears to let you vote repeatedly. Broombridge is well ahead if my contribution works.

positron

I used to vote religiously for my local station every year - but not this year. I am put off from voting for them because their staff are becoming more and more disgusting really. Here's some of my main gripes:

* Tiny shop at the end of platform charged me 4 euro for a cold (and probably very old) soft roll and a half warm / half cold hot dog. She had nothing to add to the roll, not even ketchup, and to top it all off, she "forgot" to give me the a euro back from a fiver - I had to ask!

* IrishRail staff, in uniform standing around in the platfrom smoking away and ALWAYS without exception flicks the cigarette butt onto the tracks, all this when they are just meters away from a bin.

* Casual and half-hearted attempt of PA on the platform, on the good days they decide to use it that is.

* Not particular to this station, yet, the horrible greediness of signing up with a private company to run the parking lot - who outright denies to hear you say anything but the credit card number, and all this while they have provided absolutely ZERO improvements to the parking facilities, which was the main argument when they started this scam.

/rant over, for now.

January

positron wrote: »

I used to vote religiously for my local station every year - but not this year. I am put off from voting for them because their staff are becoming more and more disgusting really. Here's some of my main gripes:

* Tiny shop at the end of platform charged me 4 euro for a cold (and probably very old) soft roll and a half warm / half cold hot dog. She had nothing to add to the roll, not even ketchup, and to top it all off, she "forgot" to give me the a euro back from a fiver - I had to ask!

* IrishRail staff, in uniform standing around in the platfrom smoking away and ALWAYS without exception flicks the cigarette butt onto the tracks, all this when they are just meters away from a bin.

* Casual and half-hearted attempt of PA on the platform, on the good days they decide to use it that is.

* Not particular to this station, yet, the horrible greediness of signing up with a private company to run the parking lot - who outright denies to hear you say anything but the credit card number, and all this while they have provided absolutely ZERO improvements to the parking facilities, which was the main argument when they started this scam.

/rant over, for now.

So, who DID you vote for?

mikemac

Another vote for Broombridge

I've never met unhelpful staff there so a 100% record

stinkle

Broombridge +1 !

just had a thought, it doesn't say WHERE the weekend away prize is to... perhaps they'll reward the winner with a trip to the winning station :cool:

Run_to_da_hills

Apparently people have already texted "Wellington Bridge" before it was delisted and have been charged premium rate accordingly in a competition where they are now denied any chance of winning any prize.Talk about moving the goal posts in a competition. CIE you should have shame on your selves.

Pulled this off Facebook.:

Wellington Bridge Station of the Year

"Thanks for voting so heavily in support of Wellington Bridge. It seems that earlier today the Welllington Bridge option was removed from the drop down menu after a significant number of votes were recorded for the station.
I have queried this matte with Comreg as those of us who voted by text have been effectively disbarred from competing for a prize despite being charged for each text.
In the meantime you may wish to show solidarity with other commnities where there is areal and present danger that rail services will end soon. Please vote for Clughjordan, Roscrea, Tipperary, Clonmel and Carrick On Suir.
Regards" Joe Ryan

patrickc

+1 BB

positron

adrieanne__x wrote: »

So, who DID you vote for?

Broombridge of course!!

Judgement Day

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Apparently people have already texted "Wellington Bridge" before it was delisted and have been charged premium rate accordingly in a competition where they are now denied any chance of winning any prize.Talk about moving the goal posts in a competition. CIE you should have shame on your selves.

Pulled this off Facebook.:

Wellington Bridge Station of the Year

"Thanks for voting so heavily in support of Wellington Bridge. It seems that earlier today the Welllington Bridge option was removed from the drop down menu after a significant number of votes were recorded for the station.
I have queried this matte with Comreg as those of us who voted by text have been effectively disbarred from competing for a prize despite being charged for each text.
In the meantime you may wish to show solidarity with other commnities where there is areal and present danger that rail services will end soon. Please vote for Clughjordan, Roscrea, Tipperary, Clonmel and Carrick On Suir.
Regards" Joe Ryan

Great to see Labour Councillor Joe Ryan still building his profile on the back of the South Wexford Rail closure, although I doubt he gets many votes from the areas served by the other two threatened lines. :rolleyes:

mikemac

Now I'm no spelling nazi but if a councillor put out a statement and misspelled my town I wouldn't be impressed

Cloughjordan
Or "mini Belfast" as the locals call it

joolsveer

It's Broombridge for me too. My daughter uses it every day.

Run_to_da_hills

joolsveer wrote: »

It's Broombridge for me too. My daughter uses it every day.

Broombridge for me too.

foggy_lad

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Broombridge for me too.

+1 for the road:)

Zebra3

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Broombridge for me too.

Quality sig. Hopefully it gets a few extra votes for Broomer.

Posher

Voted a couple of times for Broombridge.:D

Oliver1985

A train station with friendly staff and pretty flowers is what you’d expect to win [URL="javascript:void(0)"]Irish Rail[/URL]’s best station award, but internet users have other ideas.
“It seems there is a bit of Wagner X-Factor style campaign going on here for Broombridge,” said Oliver1985, a boards.ie user referring to others saying they were voting for Broombridge Station in Dublin.
Broombridge is an unmanned, graffiti marked station located in a part-abandoned area between Finglas and Cabra on the Maynooth railway line.
Commuters who use the station report of regular destructive behaviour. Users say they see scrambler motorcycles being driven on platforms and burnt-out debris in and around the station. Train users also claim the area is a hotspot for trains being stoned or bricked.
Another user, Terrontress, said with hope: “Personally speaking, I’d love to see their press release if Broombridge won.”
However, attempts to make Broombridge the station of the year are unlikely to succeed as shortlisted stations are visited by a ‘secret shopper’.
“While as with all text and internet polls of this nature, orchestration of voting can occur, all votes for stations will be registered and shortlisted stations will then be assessed in the mystery shopper exercise as detailed on irishrail.ie,” said Barry Kenny, head of communications at Irish Rail.
Irish Rail’s best station awards asks commuters to rate stations on staff helpfulness, customer information, the station’s presentation, and staff appearance. Kenny said the company hopes overall that customers enter into the spirit of the awards, which are about rewarding staff who provide good service and encouraging improvement in customer service.
But all those who rate a station will be entered into the prize draw. Kenny said, “Customers who submit any ratings for any stations, positive or negative, will be entered into the draw for weekends away and for free travel.”
On the issues at Broombridge, Kenny said: “Regular customers of Broombridge will be aware that there is a significant anti-social behaviour issue in the immediate vicinity of the station. Over a number of years, we have undertaken works to improve the station or replace facilities, but regrettably these have been subject to repeated vandalism.”
He added: “Overall, there would have been times when these issues have been worse than they are currently, but we liaise with Gardaí in our scheduled meetings to address such problems as they arise in Broombridge or elsewhere.”
Elsewhere, there are plans to develop the unused land beside Irish Rail’s Broombridge station. The Railway Procurement Agency wants the site to be the terminus for the Luas Broombridge line from Stephen’s Green via O’Connell Street. If the Luas line gets planning approval in December, and is then approved by Government, the agency will build a depot and stop alongside the current railway station.
BELOW: Satellite images on Google Maps captures graffiti stained platform at Broombridge:

http://dublinobserver.com/2010/11/disgruntled-commuters-high-jack-rail-station-awards-voting/

mikemac

Booo, I knew there would be something the small print.

dowlingm

Feckers never mentioned Wellington Bridge and IE's "disappearance" of same.

positron

If the purpose of the protest is to draw attention - I think it's already getting there. Also this would skew the voting for other stations - and they might get a surprise when they try and shortlist stations this year and usual favourites and/or expected ones not making the cut (because their customers would have been voting for Broombridge), which in the end would lead to some sort of argument amongst themselves and some of which might spill out into media again - and that will again bring more attention to the cause of Broombridge!

PS: Yes, Wagner FTW!!

TheChrisD

I'm only voting for Broombridge, because they don't have the option for Dunboyne :mad:

Zebra3

“While as with all text and internet polls of this nature, orchestration of voting can occur, all votes for stations will be registered and shortlisted stations will then be assessed in the mystery shopper exercise as detailed on irishrail.ie,” said Barry Kenny, head of communications at Irish Rail.

Could you imagine some poor b@stard being sent out to Broomer after dark? :pac:

steamengine

Zebra3 wrote: »

Could you imagine some poor b@stard being sent out to Broomer after dark? :pac:

With the canal beside it and using the right equipment, it shouldn't be a problem !