Dumb Oirish public transport attempts to kill off bicycle integration

Impetus

Irish Rail enforce clueless dumb Oirish regulations on customers.

The “CIE” monopoly is attempting to create even more difficult to complete end to end journeys, according to a report in today’s Irish Times.

Ireland’s clueless state transport monopoly – the so called “system for transport in Ireland” or “CIE” falls short in terms of providing door to door travel information and service delivery. The average person does not want to go from station A to station B (end of story) – unless perhaps they are sleeping rough, and figure a better option around station B.

In Swiss cities, where public transport is given priority, travel guests can bring their bicycle on board suburban and inter-city trains without hassle. Because the people in power (ie the citizens in a direct democracy) realise that journeys begin and end at an address – ie a street/road name, building number and town name. An idea that clueless Irish civil servants and brain dead politicians fail to take on board. Instead, these idiots appear to think in terms of user-unfriendly and meaningless Eircodes - T12 UG2G or similar.

There isn’t a train station or tram stop outside every building – so the provision of in train bicycle racks, tables for laptop computers or the local newspaper, or whatever, form part of the package of public transport from A to B, in Switzerland and many other European countries.

Even the travel planning website, which one suspects cost millions to create (called http://transportforireland.ie ) has a URL carefully designed to be the last thing that the visitor / travel info searcher would think of. Rather than something memorable such as itravel.ie. A site that provides door to door schedule info, irrespective of the mode of transport or the operator.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/iarnr%C3%B3d-%C3%A9ireann-to-get-tough-on-bikes-carried-on-commuter-trains-1.2396299

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Impetus wrote: »

..... tables for laptop computers or the local newspaper,.............

have you lost the run of yourself entirely - tables for laptop computers and newspapers ?

if they got put in they only be using them to put their laptops and papers on