Labour Politician Wants Train Drivers to Kill Motorists in an Adult Manner.

LivelineDipso

Is it any wonder we live in such a dip s**t banana republic with politicians like this. Train drivers have to sound the train horn when approaching level crossings to warn of an oncoming, eh train.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...m-3341578.html

Quote:
Train horn ban call

Irish Rail has been asked to ensure its drivers don't sound their train horns while travelling through a town.

The request came from Carrick-on-Suir Labour councillor Bobby Fitzgerald who said he had received "a number of calls from people who had been awoken by trains hooting" in the Tipperary town. He described the drivers' actions as "noise pollution'' and urged Irish Rail to "reprimand its drivers'', whom he described "as childish''.

For Forks Sake

Where is the correlation between your thread title and the contents of the post?


Also, it's a counsellor, not a TD. That'll do for starters.

Nice try:

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Fromthetrees

Couldn't ****ing give a **** **** of a ****y ****.

GoldFour4

I think he just doesn't want people to beep the horn and disturb people at night. Kinda like how we don't beep the car horn in the dark.

Fromthetrees

malistheman wrote: »

I think he just doesn't want people to beep the horn and disturb people at night. Kinda like how we don't beep the car horn in the dark.

I always beep my horn in the dark.:o

Death and Taxes

alas what noise through yonder darkness comes, could it be the clicking of a lock?:D

3ndahalfof6

This is a good thing, it will lower the fair costs.

My name is URL

malistheman wrote: »

I think he just doesn't want people to beep the horn and disturb people at night. Kinda like how we don't beep the car horn in the dark.

It's stupid to call for drivers to be reprimanded though, or for noise pollution laws to be applied to it.

My name is URL

My name is URL wrote: »

It's stupid to call for drivers to be reprimanded though, or for noise pollution laws to be applied to it.

I dunno, I can tell when one of the routes changes their shift pattern because there seems to be some drivers who love blasting for about half a mile near my house. It's very, very annoying and there's no level crossings or the like around.

3ndahalfof6

orestes wrote: »

If the costs are fair already why lower them?

The fair cost, which would be the ones set buy the powers to be, are fair as they do not have to spend their easy earned or use the system, lower them so the people who do need to use them can do more often,

the old adage, let the money circulate.

My name is URL

Deleted User wrote: »

I dunno, I can tell when one of the routes changes their shift pattern because there seems to be some drivers who love blasting for about half a mile near my house. It's very, very annoying and there's no level crossings or the like around.

Well fair enough in those cases. Unless there's an actual necessity then it shouldn't be used as often as it might be during the day. But the call to ban it outright when trains are passing through towns is asinine.

Pottler

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

This is a good thing, it will lower the fair costs.

What about the unfair fares?

HeidiHeidi

Pottler wrote: »

What about the unfair fares?

...or indeed the unfare fairs?

My name is URL

My name is URL wrote: »

Well fair enough in those cases. Unless there's an actual necessity then it shouldn't be used as often as it might be during the day. But the call to ban it outright when trains are passing through towns is asinine.

Bit of common sense would be nice but it seems like it's rare all around.

3ndahalfof6

Deleted User wrote: »

Bit of common sense would be nice but it seems like it's rare all around.

Like grass in the desert.

Pottler

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

...or indeed the unfare fairs?

Yeah, those ones really toot my horn.

Jamie Starr

Deleted User wrote: »

Bit of common sense would be nice but it seems like it's rare all around.

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

Like grass in the desert.

Unless you're Chinese.

3ndahalfof6

Agnostic Mantis wrote: »

Unless you're Chinese.

But I am not, I do like the you're.

The drivers are only supposed to honk when they pass the signs or in an emergency.

The sound can really travel on the wind, we can always tell when the wind is blowing from the town as we can hear trains honking!

end of the road

he received complaints? ah begarra begosh, what is it with people, if you live near a working railway then thats the sort of thing you expect, put up with it, the line in question is likely to close in the future yet he's worried about drivers hooting the horn of the train? maybe if he got together with the rest of his fellow councilors and put pressure on irish rail to improve services and try encourage people going between limerick and waterford to use the train he would be doing something worth while, but no he's worried about a horn hooting

Biggins

LivelineDipso wrote: »

Labour Politician Wants Train Drivers to Kill Motorists in an Adult Manner.

You should be writing the headlines for The Mail newspaper.

Pottler

end of the road wrote: »

he received complaints? ah begarra begosh, what is it with people, if you live near a working railway then thats the sort of thing you expect, put up with it, the line in question is likely to close in the future yet he's worried about drivers hooting the horn of the train? maybe if he got together with the rest of his fellow councilors and put pressure on irish rail to improve services and try encourage people going between limerick and waterford to use the train he would be doing something worth while, but no he's worried about a horn hooting

can they not just tie a pillow to the front of the train to bump the cars out of the way? They use pillows all the time in the movies to silence stuff. Next they'll be complaining they can't sleep because of the noise from cars screeching along the tracks under the train wheels.

Czarcasm

Pottler wrote: »

can they not just tie a pillow to the front of the train to bump the cars out of the way? They use pillows all the time in the movies to silence stuff. Next they'll be complaining they can't sleep because of the noise from cars screeching along the tracks under the train wheels.

Feathers.... Everywhere! :pac:

jam_mac_jam

Can the cars just not obey the lights and not drive through when the barriers are going down?

end of the road

end of the road wrote: »

he received complaints? ah begarra begosh, what is it with people, if you live near a working railway then thats the sort of thing you expect, put up with it, the line in question is likely to close in the future yet he's worried about drivers hooting the horn of the train? maybe if he got together with the rest of his fellow councilors and put pressure on irish rail to improve services and try encourage people going between limerick and waterford to use the train he would be doing something worth while, but no he's worried about a horn hooting

It's one thing when it happens now and then, it's when it's constant and needless that it presents an issue. Similarly I'd expect work to happen on railwaylines and roads now and then but when they start at 12pm completely unannounced and keep a few hundred people awake then I think complaints are fair.

squod

Horns should be seen and not heard

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

The drivers are only supposed to honk when they pass the signs or in an emergency.

The sound can really travel on the wind, we can always tell when the wind is blowing from the town as we can hear trains honking!

The train recording system keeps a log of when the horn was used so if anyone is using it excessively, IE will know about it.

Pottler

Czarcasm wrote: »

Feathers.... Everywhere! :pac:

1.Biodegradable.
2.Renewable.
3.Quiet.

Or they could use memory foam and have a silent witness..:)
"We can tell from the imprint that the car was a fiesta. Probably".

I can see the Stars headline now- "Horny Drivers get the red card".

Czarcasm

Pottler wrote: »

1.Biodegradable.
2.Renewable.
3.Quiet.

Or they could use memory foam and have a silent witness..:)
"We can tell from the imprint that the car was a fiesta. Probably".

After all those drivers abusing their horns it'd probably be better if they attached toilet roll to the front of the train so the driver could clean their undercarriage after they knock one out.

One track mind.

/gets visi-vest, I'll see myself out.

Where To

Just ban trains altogether. Disgusting things.

end of the road

Deleted User wrote: »

It's one thing when it happens now and then, it's when it's constant and needless that it presents an issue.

its never needless, the driver does it for a reason. better to be a little over cautious then not bothering at all.

Deleted User wrote: »

Similarly I'd expect work to happen on railwaylines and roads now and then but when they start at 12pm completely unannounced and keep a few hundred people awake then I think complaints are fair.

complaints over the lack of notice is fair, the fact those works happen at 12 a.M. is unfortunate but they have to happen then to try prevent disruption during the day, sometimes that doesn't go to plan and disruption continues during the day and in some cases work can only happen during the day, offpeak though is the best time for these works even if it disrupts people's sleep. sure its not nice but their not being done at that time for the fun of it.

I remember when I lived in Ballyfermot I could hear train horns all the time from Inchicore Works. It never bothered me, I just seemed to be able to drown it out.

9959

Biggins wrote: »

You should be writing the headlines for The Mail newspaper.

'RED' BOBBY DOESN'T GIVE A HOOT FOR SAFETY!

HeidiHeidi

Czarcasm wrote: »

Feathers.... Everywhere! :pac:

Won't someone please think of the ducks? (/chickens/hens/swans)

Biggins

9959 wrote: »

'RED' BOBBY DOESN'T GIVE A HOOT FOR SAFETY!

LABOUR MAN DON'T LIKE TO GET THE HORN AT NIGHT!

end of the road

end of the road wrote: »

its never needless, the driver does it for a reason. better to be a little over cautious then not bothering at all.

Like I said, the line I live next to the same couple of trains every day will blast for a few months straight and then stop. Certain drivers seem to enjoy it more.

complaints over the lack of notice is fair, the fact those works happen at 12 a.M. is unfortunate but they have to happen then to try prevent disruption during the day, sometimes that doesn't go to plan and disruption continues during the day and in some cases work can only happen during the day, offpeak though is the best time for these works even if it disrupts people's sleep. sure its not nice but their not being done at that time for the fun of it.

I like how you completely agreed with me but typed a load to perhaps make it look like you didn't.
As with the horn, reasonable noise with reasonable communications etc. are all anyone wants as far as I can tell.

9959

Biggins wrote: »

LABOUR MAN DON'T LIKE TO GET THE HORN AT NIGHT!

'LABOUR LEFT LOONEY WITH NO HOOTIN' ANY'

Biggins

9959 wrote: »

'LABOUR LEFT LOONEY WITH NO HOOTIN' ANY'

MAN IN LABOUR SEEKS PEACE AND QUIET!

Annasopra

Biggins wrote: »

MAN IN LABOUR SEEKS PEACE AND QUIET!

BOBBY CALLS FOR TIPP HORN BAN

Super-Rush

Op banned for ignoring mod instruction.

Fighting Irish

The state of the thread title

9959

"LITTLE BOY RED WON'T BLOW HIS HORN"

flas

id bet its new residents making these complaints,i grew up right next to a busy railyard/depot type place,basically passenger trains all day,freight trains all night(guinness ones going west mostly),and i can sleep through most things now,no one i knew in my family or estate was one bit bothered or interupted by the constant trains...any time new neighbours moved in they could nilot get over the trains but got used to them in time... dont move next to a railway if you dont want the noise that comes with it,feckin eejits...

fasttalkerchat

Don't see how any sober and sane person gets hit at a level crossing. Doubt a horn would make much difference.