Happy Birthday Dart, Its 25 today. !!

Run_to_da_hills · 23-07-2009 10:03AM #1

Its 25 years old today, !!!

Love it or hate it because you will have to put up with it for at least another 25 years because.

http://news.eircom.net/breakingnews/16129213/?view=Standard

Terry · 23-07-2009 10:05AM

Yeah, and it still sucks. Rabble drunks rabble junkies rabble D4 rabble.

Ok, that's the whining done.

Wazdakka · 23-07-2009 10:05AM

And they still havent figured out how to keep 2 tracks running on time :rolleyes:

WIZE · 23-07-2009 10:05AM

Happy Birthday Dart

Now get rid of it and build an underground rail system

Pop's Diner · 23-07-2009 10:11AM

I remember I went with my da to Bray on it (started at Howth) when it first opened. Don't think my da has ever used the Dart since and dont' think I've ever been back to Bray since then come to think of it?

keano_afc · 23-07-2009 10:13AM

25 years and they still havent figured out how to operate it properly when it rains.

OldGoat · 23-07-2009 10:17AM

BVB wrote: »

Happy Birthday Dart
Now get rid of it and build an underground rail system

Noooo. Some great views from the Dart. Some interesting views from the Dart. Some really horrifying views from the Dart. But at least they are views. I detest the underground.

Did anyone else ever try to do a Dart Pub crawl? Starting in Bray (before they opened the Greystones station) have a pint, go on to the next station, have a pint, go on to the next station...

4zn76tysfajdxp · 23-07-2009 10:17AM

They're holding a concert to celebrate...a train? What the hell is going on here?

Run_to_da_hills · 23-07-2009 10:19AM

BVB wrote: »

Happy Birthday Dart

Now get rid of it and build an underground rail system

Totally agree, it is built on an antiquated victorian rail line that serves the coast on almost 50% of its catchment area.

In the last 25 years we could have had one of the most advanced metro systems in Europe but we didnt instead the funds were blown on one of the largest white elephants in europe the port tunnel, that is so costly to use that no one will bother their ho*le to use it.

Cool_CM · 23-07-2009 10:22AM

Norah Wooden Kickback wrote: »

They're holding a concert to celebrate...a train? What the hell is going on here?

Be Glad it's not mass!

That_Guy · 23-07-2009 10:24AM

Norah Wooden Kickback wrote: »

They're holding a concert to celebrate...a train? What the hell is going on here?

I can picture it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xXQFnIEf_Q

Wazdakka · 23-07-2009 10:25AM

Cool_CM wrote: »

Be Glad it's not mass!

I do love a good mass.

Terry · 23-07-2009 10:25AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Totally agree, it is built on an antiquated victorian rail line that serves the coast on almost 50% of its catchment area.

In the last 25 years we could have had one of the most advanced metro systems in Europe but we didnt instead the funds were blown on one of the largest white elephants in europe the port tunnel, that is so costly to use that no one will bother their ho*le to use it.

No, you're not building a tunnel where I live.

One of the good things about dictatorships is that tunnels get built and the locals can STFU about it.

We need a law preventing bored people from objecting to planning laws.

23-07-2009 10:26AM

More trains on weekends please!

AnonoBoy · 23-07-2009 10:28AM

It's no BART, I tells ya that much.

DublinWriter · 23-07-2009 10:29AM

I watched The Commitments the other day and it was funny to see one of the characters smoking on the DART.

These days we'd lock her up in the 'joy. What a mad, crazy people we were back then, what with our spontaneous breaking into song on the DART, poverty and all that.

Pal · 23-07-2009 10:37AM

somebody got their dates wrong. I remember the DART running in May 1984.

Alessandra · 23-07-2009 10:38AM

I've never been on the DART.

Dravokivich · 23-07-2009 10:40AM

Cool_CM wrote: »

Be Glad it's not mass!

Wazdakka wrote: »

I do love a good mass.

there's a time for action and there's a time for mass...

- Drav!

Run_to_da_hills · 23-07-2009 10:42AM

Pal wrote: »

somebody got their dates wrong. I remember the DART running in May 1984.

Testing went back several months before the date, the ribbon was cut and the official opening began 25 years ago to the day.

Bluefoam · 23-07-2009 10:44AM

Its a shame after 25 years they can't produce a decent time table - there is a 45 min wait between darts in the evening...

The policy of having bigger trains and running them less often is a pile of ****e...

Leixlip_Red · 23-07-2009 10:46AM

Bluefoam wrote: »

Its a shame after 25 years they can't produce a decent time table - there is a 45 min wait between darts in the evening...

The policy of having bigger trains and running them less often is a pile of ****e...

Welocme to the Irish transport system

Run_to_da_hills · 23-07-2009 10:56AM

Bluefoam wrote: »

Its a shame after 25 years they can't produce a decent time table - there is a 45 min wait between darts in the evening...

The policy of having bigger trains and running them less often is a pile of ****e...

I had suggest that they reintroduce the two car dart sets at night.

biko · 23-07-2009 10:58AM

I've been on it once, was ok I guess

Mossy Monk · 23-07-2009 11:01AM

I have used it twice. I'd rather crawl.

Dades · 23-07-2009 11:08AM

I love the DART (use it every weekday).
Occasionally there's issues but more often than not it's a smooth ride.

As long as I work in town would only ever live on the DART line.

Don't understand the vitriol against it, tbh.

stovelid · 23-07-2009 11:19AM

I, for one, would like to thank the Dart for providing cheap, rapid access from town to a variety of middle-class seaside towns every summer where myself and many other youths could happily run amok, play the slots, drink cans, shoplift and meet posh girls.

Here's to another 25!

Run_to_da_hills · 23-07-2009 11:35AM

Dades wrote: »

I love the DART (use it every weekday).
Occasionally there's issues but more often than not it's a smooth ride.

As long as I work in town would only ever live on the DART line.

Don't understand the vitriol against it, tbh.

If the service was FOC every 5 minutes people would still bitch about it.

JerryHandbag · 23-07-2009 11:45AM

Indeed. Happy Birthday Lord Vader.

achtungbarry · 23-07-2009 12:08PM

This birthday has been delayed for operational reasons.

Royale with Cheese · 23-07-2009 12:14PM

Used to live on the thing when I was younger. Then I learned to drive, then they introduced a decent bus route that is much closer to my house and gets me into town quicker than the dart.

I rarely use it these days.

Happy Birthday Dart, Its 25 today. !!

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