Etiquette while commuting on public trasport

While of course id rather not suffer with those others, I of course would rather they didnt have to either. Given the uselessness and non exstance of improvments to roads or transport in the past 10 years, one has to go for the least worst option. Hours in traffic vs unreliable transport is what many have. Id pick the traffic. Least youd be comfortable.

You can batter women to near death on this country, be caught with huge amount of child porn and walk free from the courts.

Nolan, cough.

We had FF’s lies about being tough on crime back in the late 90s. Some version of 3 strikes and you’re out. Once elected went in the bin.

No chance of it coming in here and being used.

A young man sitting behind me on the train yesterday was tucking into a greasy snackbox and the stench of the fried chicken was choking the whole carriage. All I could smell for the rest of the day was that blasted manky chicken as the smell was stuck right into me.
Are there actually rules where you can’t eat hot food on the train? Maybe I should have reported him to staff

Went to the effort lately of booking seats in the quiet carriage on dublin train out of cork.

I had to.point out the sign which reminds that they are in the quiet carriage and ask her to take her phone call out into the vestibule.

Initially I got a reply if 'it's only a short call' but feeling fairly p!ssed I just pointed to sign and repeated my request.

She , in her late 50s, sighed like a kid and wandered out. When people that age, sitting beside the bloody sign, can't obey it, what do we seriously expect from gen z or their ilk🙄

I found this short audio clip on Youtube of an incident on a bus in Dublin last Thursday.

The incident occurred on Go Ahead's 111 route between Brides Glen Luas & Dalkey. Although; it is not clear where the passenger was going on the bus. There is no information in the clip about what direction the route was going that day.

I don't own this video myself. The description from the uploader of the video says the passenger on the bus had been in trouble with the driver because the leap card scanner was not working properly. He wanted to go to a stop on the opposite direction of the route. A row between the passenger & the driver than went on for about 3 to 5 minutes.

The passenger had scared a family with young children on the bus. It's not clear whether the driver had called the Gardai to officially get the passenger off the bus. It's a pretty distressing incident all around for any passengers who wanted to board the bus while carrying out their business.

I was in a hospital emergency dept waiting room recently, with the big TV playing Virgin Media Four, crappy game shows etc. If that wasn't bad enough, a young French man behind me starting playing videos on speaker. Once I was sure it was him, I got his attention and asked him to turn off his audio, as we didn't all want to listen to his videos. He was a bit taken aback, and said ' but I have no ' pointing to his years. I gave him my best Gallic don't GAF shrug and told him that was his problem. I stopped him holding his phone to his ear a few minutes later.

It was nearly worth the trip to the ED for that little victory.

never be, the person who…

sits in an aisle seat on any mode of public transport and leave the window one vacant.

sits at the window seat but stow bags on adjacent aisle seats.

sits in a reserved seat you’ve not proactively booked…’some’ Irish rail users awful for this. Travel extensively by rail in the UK and France and experiences elsewhere too and it’s just seemingly us Irish.

makes or takes loud and long phone calls. I’ve no issue with for 30 seconds “ yeah we are running late, bout half an hour, look, I’ll ring you when we arrive, ok, bye “ no big deal there…

plays their music on a speaker…people who do this are at other levels of stupid annoying imbecilic selfishness.

It’s all gotten way worse over the last 6/7 years, mainly let’s say a certain younger age demographic to blame.

I just get on board, keep it seriously simple…just…

• find the seat I’ve booked,
• stow my bag / coat efficiently in the overhead or under the seat,
• sit down listen to music or watch films or videos with headphones on and or read.
  
  ^^^All without any level of inconvenience to myself or anyone else.

I regularly sit on an aisle seat as I'm tall and it gives me a little bit more legroom.

If someone wants to sit in the window seat, they just have to ask me.

Agree with the rest though.

I'm 6'2" but would never take an aisle seat and expect someone to go to the trouble of asking if I'd mind moving in. Given the unpredictable behavior of some people on PT most people just like to get on and find a seat without having to ask permission.

It's nearly always non nationals shouting down the phone and not using earphones.

I was on a bus the other week and some foreign woman was standing upstairs the stupid b1tch was blocking up the whole aisle when there was loads of seats available. The cultural enrichers have absolutely no manners.

I wouldn't agree with you there.

It probably just stands out more when someone is shouting down a phone in a different language.

Up at Brides Glen there is an utterly UTTERLY moronic set up on the road up to it where there are bus stops on both sides of the road.

If the bus is driving up towards Brides Glen and you want to get off at one of the two stops facing each other on the road before the roundabout (the stop before the Luas) there is a stop to your left which the bus will pass, it allows a straight walk to the Gym, offices, shop etc on that same side of the road….but the bus does not stop there on the upward leg.

It only stops on the opposite side AFTER you have gone up to the Luas, back down around the round about. So then you get off on the opposite side of the road to where you want to go and have to cross 4 lanes of road to get where you needed to go. Why not stop at the easy stop on the left? They are "not allowed" according to drivers I have asked…why the stop is there? I don't know.

Instead

If you want to go to point A, naturally you will seek to get off at stop 1. The bus direction of travel is towards 8 o clock direction up towards the Luas stop (via a long roundabouty meandering route that takes an extra 5-10 depending on a load of things).

I don't know if it's still like this (it used to be) or if this was the source of the agro in the clip (not in a place I can listen to it) but they used to make you get off at stop 2 to go to point A, so you had to cross both roads where there is no lights or zebra crossing, you just ran for it.

When I asked several drivers at the time why you can't just get off at stop 1 they said they're "now allowed drop off there", that you must, if going to point A, go up and around then back down to 2 and get off at 2.

I don't know what idiot designed the set up out there but it's all arseways. The Brides Glen station is high up and exposed to freezing cold winds. There are no bus shelters (at a major transport interchange) or proper timetables available. The nearest actual bus stop (for such is not a way you could describe the ones around or near the Luas stop) where you could get a 155, 145 (or E's or whatever they are now) is also high up, and exposed, with no bus shelter.

There is also no where to get an easy turn at the station, and no easy place to pick up/drop off without interfering with any busses that are there at the time. It's classic Celtic Tiger Ireland planning up there, "sure just throw it up Jimmy on the board his cousins got the contract so just toss up any old shite", with no strategic thinking or logic involved.

That's old history now. It only applied on the 84/84a - the (bizarre) logic behind it being that buses in one direction would serve the stop on one side of the road and buses in the other direction would serve the stop on the other side of the road.

The routes don't exist anymore and the 7, 111 and X2 all serve both stops. I'd expect the same when the L14 is extended to Brides Glen.

The bus terminus at Bride's Glen LUAS does have a bus stop with full timetables on display.

There's also all the room in the world to drop people off / pick them up outside the LUAS stop.

Bear in mind that the whole site west of the LUAS line at Brides Glen stop has yet to be developed - there's loads of new apartments now to the east which are at the same level as the LUAS line.