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Bray Air Display 2022

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭moonshy2022


    People were sat on a boiling train with no air conditioning and windows that didn’t open. It was 21°c and they were told it was going to be another 30-40 mins before they were moved. The train Was over crowded as well.

    When the summer starts we are repeatedly told NOT to leave animals and children in locked cars in the sun. Yet it’s ok on a train ?! I have sympathy for them to be honest.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭emo72


    Holding the arrows till last when showers were touch and go at baldonnell turned out to be a bad decision.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭Rock Solid


    Shocking altogether micky mouse show.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭TheAnalyst_


    You’ve only yourself to blame if you go this ****. This was always going to be the outcome.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭Jaysci20


    My second time in 5 years going to the Bray airshow. Never again. Both times were a total disaster, stressful, and a shambles. The planning and infrastructure is nowhere near sufficient.

    I could see how oversubscribed it was and left after the second display with the Jordanian planes. I just about made it onto a packed Dublin bus back into town. I feel sorry for all the families with young kids stranded there now.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭moonshy2022


    Sadly where you were was fine but between the gusting winds being over limits for old aircraft and the danger it causes when flying in close tight formation safety comes first and first always. The weather in Kildare was appalling at times, heavy CB showers soaking Bals runway.



  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    The chopper segment was interminably boring. (along with the Casa and an ATR)

    Choppers just don't have the crowd appeal as fast jets.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,060 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Yes things didn't run smoothly, but the forecast was always going to play a part today. The train issue obviously needs to be investigated because doesn't sound right. Maybe the armchair experts can volunteer their services next year to help with the organisation of the event.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    Hear hear. Purporting to know exactly how things should have been done and assuming the organisers did not consider or pursue alternative options is the luxury of the (anonymous) armchair pundit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,604 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    There are realistically only three roads in and out of Bray and only one which crosses the river. It is a traffic nightmare on a normal day.

    In a reasonably organised country there would be funding for buses and transport laid on for the event but instead we've got the garda doing the usual job of making the situation worse.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭TheAnalyst_




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭100gSoma


    Hoping someone knows if it's today or tomorrow so might see them at least.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,604 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    The organisers are judged on what they achieved, not what they considered or pursued.


    It appears they achieved absolute traffic chaos and gridlock, prevented people who live in the town going about their normal business, and didn't provide an air show at the end of it.


    If anyone is looking for an opportunity to see the garda helicopter hovering over Bray for half an hour, Saturday at 1am is usually a good time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭WealthyB


    Trying to get out of here with 2 kids and it's a shitshow. Zero organisation. Nobody taking ownership. Queues and queues not moving. Darts leaving for town half empty. Aggressive scumbags wandering through the crowds pushing everyone. Smell of cannabis everywhere. A complete **** shitshow, I'll never be back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭NITRO95


    That describes 95% of the events organised in the country



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    The issue with the train was solely down to impatient passengers. There were 2 trains ahead of us that needed moving. They just got histerical and ripped the doors open.


    It's a shame this happens so often around Dublin. More needs to be done to stop it.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    I decided to hang around and wait for that sort of crowd to move on. They can't hold onto the trains until full, as they'd have issues with movements.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 401 ✭✭moonshy2022


    It’ll be tonight and soon if weather is suitable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Problem with the Dart apparently...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,440 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    I live in bray, on your comments about local people. Everyone who lives here knows what air show day is traffic wise. It's gridlock every single year so nothing new there. We all know what to expect & most people who live in Bray plan around the air show. There's leaflets dropped into houses weeks in advance advising of the traffic measures etc, local media pushing it non stop in the last week also.

    However even as a local this is probably the worst I've seen it traffic wise for the airshow & Bray is bad every sunny weekend. Last weekend was mental



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Bad last week in the good weather, massive queues on the N11, I was traveling in the other direction and passed it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,723 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Hay leave the Mèganes out of this. If you want slag of a car then a use something else.

    Sounds like the was show was sh-it. Glad I did not make the effort. Maybe in a year or two I will go again.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭beachhead


    The train had normal DART carriages with windows that could be opened in the carriages as well between the carriages



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Lofidelity


    Sounds like the transport situation was organised by the same people who done such a good job at the Marlay park gigs.

    I was heading up the m50 earlier and the cars were backed up to Carrickmines exit. And after all that no fast or loud jets!

    At least Mr whippy and Mr chippy probably enjoyed themselves.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭beachhead


    The trains were being filled after 4.30pm Did you see/join the queues around the bowling alley?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Disappointing day. Weather in bray was great but obviously conditions elsewhere conspired against the Lancaster and reds which was really

    disappointing. Stuck in a massive queue for the dart 2 hours after the show finished. Was like sardines on the way down. An absolute **** show.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,440 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    The traffic you mention is nothing new for air show day or for any sunny day for bray. Its always like that back up the m50.

    The dart situation is an absolute mess today and that falls on Irish rail.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭TheAnalyst_


    Never again. Terrible venue for an air show and pointless having a free air show with prop planes.

    People whinge but they wouldn’t bother there arse paying into the amazing air spectacular in 2000 which resulted in it never happening again. Irish people reap what they sow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭beachhead


    Southbound DART regularly stops before the harbour due to vibration from train going North.But today both south and north platforms were being used to ferry people in and out of Bray.The train that stopped had to wait for one platform to free up.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭beachhead



    The town of Bray is regularly gridlocked.It doesn't need an airshow to cause it.Try driving thru Bray northbound in the mornings(8.00-9.30am) or southbound in the afternoons(3.30-7.00pm).Mostly it's the traffic lights.8 sets in 2km or less.Don't forget a holes blocking yellow box junctions or jumping lights.



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