Bike on the DART

ronano

I want to bring a small bike (size for someone 4"11 roughly). I know online it says you can only do it during off peak hours. Has anyone experience of doing it during peak hours getting off in connolly and if there was an issue with staff?

Hilly Bill

Bikes are allowed after 10 until 3:30 and then after 7. Don't bring the bike before 10.

ronano

You just posted information I specifically said I knew. I was asking for people's practical experience regarding off peak.

Decuc500

People are always bringing bikes on the Dart during peak hours. I wonder is the no bike rule actually enforced during rush hour? Doesn't seem to be to me. They annoyingly take up standing room at the side of the carriage.

Guy with a big mountain bike this morning pushing it off the train through school children and commuters.

schemingbohemia

I bring my bike on the DART after 9am, get off in Pearse and never had any hassle. The train I get isn't usually that full so it doesn't really harm anyone else. The thing is to be considerate of other users, don't go cycling down the ramp from the platform in Connolly!

Given the significant number of staff at the gates in Connolly it might make more sense to get off at either Pearse or Tara.

Not sure i'd bring it on if I knew the train was going to be jammers though.

Carawaystick

Sher once you're on the dart, what are the lads at Connolly gonna do? stop you leaving? That worked out well for Paul Murphy and co...

jayobray

I see it regularly on the northbound DARTs between 730 and 830, and I've never seen anyone stopped yet, although most tend to get off at stations between Blackrock and Lansdowne Road, rather than at the city centre stations.

Hilly Bill

ronano wrote: »

You just posted information I specifically said I knew. I was asking for people's practical experience regarding off peak.

why ask then? Off peak you can do what you want but you never mentioned anything about off peak in your opening post. Regarding issue with staff, you will be fined by the rpu if caught.

cython

Hilly Bill wrote: »

why ask then? Off peak you can do what you want but you never mentioned anything about off peak in your opening post. Regarding issue with staff, you will be fined by the rpu if caught.

Out of interest, on what basis would the fine be issued? If there is no fare evasion (since there is no fare for bikes on DART/commuter services), what is the fine likely to be for?

Hilly Bill

Having a bike on the train outside the permitted times.

cython

Hilly Bill wrote: »

Having a bike on the train outside the permitted times.

Seeing as there doesn't seem to be anything in the by-laws that I can fine online to that effect, I suspect the odds of that being levied are on a par with "looking crooked at a member of the RPU"....... Typically the RPU issue standard fare notices rather than fines per se (fines come in on non-payment of same), and as I've already pointed out, there is no fare for bicycles on DART/commuter, so not sure how a standard fare can be applied there. Not to mention that bicycles on commuter services seems to be governed by company policy in any case, rather than by-laws.

I'm not advocating the OP bringing a bicycle on at peak time, to be clear, but I also don't advocate scaremongering about makey-uppy fines!

Carawaystick

How would the rpu legally stop you? Once you showed your ticket, they have no grounds to stop you. If they touched you after its assault or False imprisonment if you are in the labour party

cdebru

Carawaystick wrote: »

How would the rpu legally stop you? Once you showed your ticket, they have no grounds to stop you. If they touched you after its assault or False imprisonment if you are in the labour party

If it is a bye law, and there is a penalty for breaking the bye law then an authorized officer of the company can detain you while waiting for the Gardai to arrive.
Otherwise all bye laws are completely meaningless and unenforceable.

Carawaystick

cdebru wrote: »

If it is a bye law,

You should be easily able to quote the law...

Nothing here about it
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1984/si/109/made/en/print
which is what is linked from IÉ's FAQ