Stephen15 wrote: » The good thing about football matches at the Aviva is that drink is not served inside the stadium due to UEFA requirements and people who are too pissed are refused entry. People who drink before hand have plenty of time to soak up the drink during the match.
Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » If there’s a guy on twitter responding in timely fashion, maybe out of hours, then surely the driver can be instructed to also give information.
prinzeugen wrote: » It all comes back to information. Is society that bad now, that if people don't get realtime, instant updates or get a bit delayed, they go into meltdown? As I said earlier, this is a new phenomenon and its the passengers not the railway that is the problem. We have had trains stuck in odd places since the 1850's but only in the last few years have people decided they cannot wait so jump off. And I agree, that even if information had been given, impatient, self important idiots would still detrain.
Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » I am not defending the jumping off. However I’m pretty sure that train drivers walked carriages or used communication devices in previous eras. Irish rail are articulately bad at it. And often incomprehensible when they do speak.
prinzeugen wrote: » Train drivers never walked trains and never talked directly to passengers until recently on DOO (driver only operations) trains. And announcements on trains are a 1960's invention.
prinzeugen wrote: » Would you bite the blue wire of a kettle lead while it was plugged into the mains? No.
Stephen15 wrote: » Even if the driver made an announcement and kept passnegrs informed it would likely fall on deaf ears. I was on a flight two years ago and I know it is a different case but when we landed in Dublin the pilot made a clear annoucement to telling us to remain in our seats as there was a sick passenger on board and to remain on the plane while we waited for an ambulance what happened only two girls got up barged past the flight crew and paramedics to try and disembark the plane people simply do not listen.
thomasj wrote: » https://twitter.com/aoifemarieor/status/1007788924595593216?s=09
Earlier this weekend, chaos emerged on board a Dart coming from a Liam Gallagher concert at Malahide Castle. Commuters reported incidents of people "smoking, urinating and freaking out" while one concertgoer shared an image of a window that was smashed in. Trains saw significant delays as impatient commuters pried open train doors to walk home along the train lines, causing further delays.
Hilly Bill wrote: » Anyone who got off and walked the tracks were idiots and a cause of the delays.
prinzeugen wrote: » I was stuck on a train in the UK that had caught fire for 2 hours years ago. It was a bit smokey and there was no announcements as all the power had been cut, but people sat tight and didn't complain or try to jump off.
cgcsb wrote: » I was on the second train, stopped for almost an hour, during that time it was getting hotter and hotter and the drunks were getting louder and louder, a girl passed out and a guy had vomited. Irish Rail done nothing, so you bet I jumped out and walked the tracks. You'd be an idiot to stay there all night until they cleared the tracks. The driver actually got out and walked off by the way.
cgcsb wrote: » Well nobody believes that Irish Rail has an interest in their passenger's safety and comfort so individuals need to take steps to look after their own safety and comfort.
Infini wrote: » In all honestly unless there's a serious threat to one's life noone should be leaving the train end of story. I honestly couldn't care what excuses people make or try to say about this the only time breaking window's or opening door's should be happening is only if there's a risk to life. Communication aside certain people breaking a window and just walking onto an ACTIVE RAIL LINE IN THE BLACK OF NIGHT because they simply cannot wait is stupidity of the highest order. No matter what anyone says your putting yourself in serious danger doing this and especially under those condition's as if a train was going the other way and didn't have word of what was happening people would be getting dismembered for crying out loud!
odyssey06 wrote: » If I'm ever going to concert in Malahide I think I'll take the car...
Hilly Bill wrote: » And you made the problem worse.
Jamie2k9 wrote: » If this claim is true it raises even more serious questions.
cgcsb wrote: » What was I supposed to do? Sitting on the train wouldn't have helped matters.
Hilly Bill wrote: » Jumping onto a live rail line in the dark isn't exactly looking after your own safety now is it.
cgcsb wrote: » Nobody 'jumped onto a live railway' we jumped off the left side anto the stone and then walked on the city-bound tracks to Portmarnock i.e. we walked between two stationary broken down trains. On the walk to portmarnock station two gardaí passed us walking towards the DART we got off, I presume to tell the remaining passengers to do likewise, at least those that weren't in a wheel chair or passed out/extremely unwell.
Hilly Bill wrote: » Jumping out didn't help matters either did it. It prolonged the delay.
Hilly Bill wrote: » Still a live line.
Hilly Bill wrote: » cgcsb wrote: » I was on the second train, stopped for almost an hour, during that time it was getting hotter and hotter and the drunks were getting louder and louder, a girl passed out and a guy had vomited. Irish Rail done nothing, so you bet I jumped out and walked the tracks. You'd be an idiot to stay there all night until they cleared the tracks. The driver actually got out and walked off by the way. And you made the problem worse.
devnull wrote: » Irish rail didn't exactly try and reassure people did they or help them out? But you'd think they were perfect angels according to some here.
