getting in and out of dart

digitally-yours

Hi Peeps (mean people !!)

I noticed one thing and i wana know if anyone knows the answer

The thing is i get the dart every morning from tara street at about 8 ish and
when the dat comes every one stays away from doors to let people get off and once every one is off then people enter the dart so the people who has to get of the dart has enough room to get off

Now on other hand when i finish work i get the dart to tara street from clontraf its about 5.30ish and when i get to tara street the people who are waiting outside to get in just stick to the door and dont give any space for those who have to get off its unbelieveable if you notice to see the difference you have to push them to get off the dart

anyone knows why this is happening and y it dosent happen in morning when every one shud be rushing to work ??? opinions

Femelade

they're all just dying to get home i guess...

highdef

They're stupid ignorant <insert expletive here> :mad:
Can't stand it myself. I will forcefully push myself through those people and have no problem doing so. I'm not a person to use violence but that sort of behavior really pisses me off. SHouting at them to let people off first doesn't work - man handling appears to be the only solution if you want to get off the train without falling down the gap.

rubadub

Makes perfect sense to me why it happens. Lots of people work in town so will be getting off at Tara street in the morning, if I was waiting to catch a train at Tara street I would expect a large emptying of the train at Tara which no doubt happens.
At 5.30 I would expect very few people to be exiting at Tara street since most people are going home and relatively few people would have Tara as there exit, as opposed to blackrock/dun laoghaire/bray.

Lump

There's a couple of un-written rules (Actually I think they are written) for anyone visiting London.

1. Stand on the right, when going down escalators or you are very likely to get pushed down them.

2. Keep your bags out of the way when walking in the tunnells or travelling on the escalator.

3. Wait till people are off the train before getting on, don't worry, the driver won't leave if you're standing waiting. Yes! It's a miracle they actually watch you, there's wireless monitors in the trains that pick up the feed from the camera on each station as the trains pulls in.

4. Don't just STOP dead in the middle of the station / ticket area etc..... One day you will be flattened by a fatter man walking behind you whom's momentum will just carry him over you.

5. DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT, stop when you get to the end of an escalator, it looks funny as every one kind of backs up behind you, but apparently it's dangerous

On topic..... Meh darts! don't they stop for about 10 minutes in each station?

John

Cianos

This is actually one thing that pisses me off so much. The prospect of pulling into a station seeing all these miserable rude a$$holes in their suits barging in just to get a seat - disgraceful. I'd love to stand in the middle of the door with my arms stretched across the door way and just stand there until they get out of the way.

WellyJ

Lump wrote:

There's a couple of un-written rules (Actually I think they are written) for anyone visiting London.

Another one would be, dont use any public transport at all these days.

WellyJ

Lump

WellyJ wrote:

Another one would be, dont use any public transport at all these days.

WellyJ

Why? How would you plan on getting around London.... what a silly statement to make.

John

Flukey

Lump wrote:

Why? How would you plan on getting around London.... what a silly statement to make.

What's silly about it? There are lots of ways of getting around without using public transport. All sorts of people do it. You could walk, drive, be chaffeur driven, cycle, use a helicopter etc. etc. So there are lots of options that don't involve using public transport. Lots of people never use public transport to get around. They manage without problems. I've been in London loads of times, but I never saw the Queen on the underground or on a bus etc.

theCzar

Lets all buy SUV's* and stick it them enviromentalists, you take the DART we'll say...



*May require we all get jobs first

Blisterman

Yeah, i walk all over London. Most places are within a 2 mile radius anyway.

robinph

Flukey wrote:

I've been in London loads of times, but I never saw the Queen on the underground or on a bus etc.

But she does use public transport, well they pay for it at least. :rolleyes:

Blisterman wrote:

Yeah, i walk all over London. Most places are within a 2 mile radius anyway.

I think its Oxford Street and another station, which I cannot remember the name of, that are shown on the tube map as being about 6 stations and 2 changes apart, but are infact just on oposite sides of the road. So your probably quicker walking anyway.

Lump

..... I live 7 odd KM outside the city. Not possible for me to walk. And it's not escately cost effective to drive everywhere.

Pff, if I get blown up, I get blown up. Hopefully it won't happen

John

sceptre

Flukey wrote:

I've been in London loads of times, but I never saw the Queen on the underground or on a bus etc.

Here's a picture so.

Cake Fiend

Getting back on topic, this kind of thing used to annoy me a lot when I used the DART regularly - my solution was similar to highdef's - just shove your way through them. I used to barge quite roughly through these morons in the hope that they'd get the message.

Sarsfield

I think this would be an ideal application for the poison tipped umbrella so popular in the old cold war spying days.

A good jab from a pointy brolly should result in the offenders taking a quick step back from the train doors. Poison optional.

grimloch

That oddly reminds me of an old teacher of mine who would walk down the corridoor with his car keys in hand pointing them horizontally nad saying "Watch out, keys are sharp" so students wouldn't get in is way.

Happens on the bus sometimes and it's a bloody nuisance.

Vokes

Lump wrote:

Yes! It's a miracle they actually watch you, there's wireless monitors in the trains that pick up the feed from the camera on each station as the trains pulls in.

Pffft! DART drivers have wireless monitors too!

Thery're called "Big Ass Mirrors" and are conveniently placed at the front of every stop.

nlgbbbblth

digitally-yours wrote:

Now on other hand when i finish work i get the dart to tara street from clontraf its about 5.30ish and when i get to tara street the people who are waiting outside to get in just stick to the door and dont give any space for those who have to get off its unbelieveable if you notice to see the difference you have to push them to get off the dart

anyone knows why this is happening and y it dosent happen in morning when every one shud be rushing to work ??? opinions

Because the people waiting in the evening are losers. Simple as that.

I saw a guy headbutt his way off the DART one evening.

markpb

I used to have the same problem getting off at Drumcondra station in the mornings - more than any other station. Fortunately having one large bag hanging off each shoulder and taking up the width of the door soon settled that :-)

Deadwing

and another thing, did everyone in dublin decide overnight that they dont need to que for a bus anymore?? Seriously..noone bothers forming a que anymore, and it does my f*cking head in

MrsA

I take the DART every morning from Greystones to Dun Laoghaire and I hate getting off. People are so ignorant - Why do they not stand back and just let you out. I am not a large person but, I do shove my way off the DART and I act more agressive than I really am. Little old ladies nearly seem to be the worst culprits - I kid you not - I know some of them cannot move very quickly - but they seem to move like someone on skids up to the door before it opens!!
MPA

jaggeh

ive physically knocked people to the ground who tried to barge onto the train as im getting off, if they cant have the manners to allow people off then they can suffer the consequences.

Kintarō Hattori

With all this money and prosperity we've become ignorant f*ckers! I remember in the 80's and early 90's people were so much more polite. And you rarely if ever heard someone blowing their horn on O'Connell Street. Now if someone doesn't have the reactions of a formula one driver at the lights they are subjected to a barage of honking horns!!

I really don't like who we are becoming.

Lump

SofaKing wrote:

Pffft! DART drivers have wireless monitors too!

Thery're called "Big Ass Mirrors" and are conveniently placed at the front of every stop.

He he, made me laugh this morning....

John

BossArky

Things that annoy me about tubes / trains:

- The people who get up and stand at the door one stop before they have to get off, getting in other peoples way.

- People who start walking in the direction the train is going as it arrives into a station. Why? If you are standing in the middle of the platform then stay there until the bloody thing arrives! It seems that people subconciously want to go along with the train as it slows down.

- As the original poster said, ignorant folk who stand in the way when you are trying to get off. Handy to use a bike as a weapon :cool:

- On the dart from Malahide to Connolly on Tuesday evening last three little scumbags around 16 or 17 years old were walking between carriages acting scummy, kicking doors, belting windows and trying to intimidate people. I was the only one in my carriage, they come over asking for the time... probably trying to figure out if I was a foreigner or not. I was waiting for one of them to start having a go at me. Luckily for them they decided to walk or I would have given them some thumping. Nothing more I detest than fvckers trying to intimidate others. Something similar happened to me on a bus from Shannon airport to Limerick 2 years ago. A pack of scumbags (15-17 ish)sitting down the bag shouting a people, one managed to land a gob of spit on me (accidently he reckoned) before I clattered the head off of him. I told him that he'd better be a good sprinter when the bus stops. Was hilarious seeing him grovel for forgiveness as the bus neared town.

Lump

You're double hard.

John

ShiverinEskimo

SofaKing wrote:

Pffft! DART drivers have wireless monitors too!

Thery're called "Big Ass Mirrors" and are conveniently placed at the front of every stop.

Genius..I laughed a lot at that..

Pigman II

Maybe it's just the stop? I used to use the Clontarf stop a few years a go and it was like a stampede once that train pulled up. IIRC you had to walk up about 3 flights of narrow steps before you to the (equally narrow)) platform area I reckon that had some architectural factor in the 'survival of the fittest' routine.

Most of the people getting seemed to come from a computer plant located across the way and they were usually the worst offenders from my own limited observations.

nlgbbbblth

SofaKing wrote:

Thery're called "Big Ass Mirrors" and are conveniently placed at the front of every stop.

surely you mean 'Big Anus Mirrors' ?

Tiffany

I hate this too. One day I was in a really bad mood (can't remember why), and as I got off the dart people were shoving as usual to get on and I yelled at them "Could you not let us off first, fo f***'s sake?" and they all leapt back. :cool:

drunkenfool

The answer is not that difficult really, your going the opposite way to rush hour traffic
in morning alot of people getting off the dart, also probably getting in your way
in the evenings getting off at tara street, people want to get home hense big cues for getting on the trains

not rocket science really.

dublin is pretty tame for that kind of behaviour compared to most other cities.