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LUAS: A Tale of Two Trams. RTÉ 1, Tuesday, 09 July 2013. 9.35pm

  • 09-07-2013 09:34PM
    #1
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭


    Since its launch in 2004, the LUAS has become a moving landmark of Dublin. A Tale Of Two Trams goes behind the scenes of Dublin's light rail LUAS system, to tell the stories of some of the 80,000 passengers and the staff who support them: from the good, the bad to the anti-social behaviour and fare evaders......
    http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/luas.html



    This looks interesting.

    From a couple of previews I heard on radio, it is as much a focus on the perceived social differences between the two tram lines than the operation of the Luas itself.


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,577 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Seems counter productive giving junkies free travel passes for the Luas and then employing security to take the very same chaps off it :rolleyes:


  • #3
    technocrat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 840 ✭✭✭technocrat


    75% off all recorded Luas crime occurs on the red line... Shocking!


  • #4
    Sideshow Mark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Sideshow Mark


    How much did Luas & Dundrum Town Centre pay to have this advertisement on for an hour?


  • #5
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    They really are emphasising the differences between the social status of passengers on both lines.

    Almost to the point that this is the motive of the whole programme.


  • #6
    threein99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭threein99


    God this is awful


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  • #7
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    technocrat wrote: »
    75% off all recorded Luas crime occurs on the red line... Shocking!


    Is it really shocking? Expected more than anything else


  • #8
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Not a patch on the UK Transport programmes


  • #9
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Has it started again from the beginning ?


  • #10
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    "Me das name is eh..eh...eh... Pat Kenny"

    He'll grow up to be a bright one


  • #11
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Pat Kenny's son fare-dodging there. And after all the license money that goes to Kenny!


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  • #12
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,577 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Looks like there will be lots of fun when the Luas lines link up and the passengers mix.


  • #13
    BC1987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭BC1987


    All the people they interview on the Green Line, and then the Red Line, a Junkie!!


  • #14
    Pentecost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,975 ✭✭✭Pentecost


    Chinpool wrote: »
    "Me das name is eh..eh...eh... Pat Kenny"

    He'll grow up to be a bright one

    She fell for it tbf


  • #15
    Hidalgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭Hidalgo


    Ticket inspector 'name of a parent or guardian. What's your mothers or fathers name'
    Young lad with no ticket 'me da, eh, eh, eh, pat Kenny'


  • #16
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Looks like there will be lots of fun when the Luas lines link up and the passengers mix.

    It will be even more fun when the Green Line gets to Broombridge !


  • #17
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,577 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Liveline will be fun tomorrow with callers living along the Red Line :D


  • #18
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Jesus christ. Couldnt they have filmed during any other concert


  • #19
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Yer one is making the most of her 15 minutes.


  • #20
    Laneyh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Laneyh


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Liveline will be fun tomorrow with callers living along the Red Line :D

    It'll just be an extension of the programme really people complaining about junkies, scumbags and foreigners - business as usual


  • #21
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Chinpool wrote: »
    Jesus christ. Couldnt they have filmed during any other concert

    The One Direction fans must have got a taxi from the Green Line at Stephens Green to Abbey St to get the Red Line to the Point. ;)


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  • #22
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,204 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    The abuse the foreigner workers take is unbelievable in this day and age. Very low and scummy.


  • #23
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Red line passenger here, this show is a bloody joke!
    They have interviewed no-one but a deluded whiney culchie who thinks no-one uses a smartphone or tablet or kindle on the Red Line out of fear or poverty and who almost creams himself about the Green line passengers (cue close up of an iPad) and a junkie with a free pass.

    Green Line, loads interviewed! Ooh, a kindle reader, someone with a designer bag - look! a dope who leaves her bag unattended but that's okay - it's the Green line!

    What a joke - I've seen one racially motivated old drunk bastard give abuse to a few Indians on the Red Line, the odd kid fare dodging and almost everyone is on a smrtphone/tablet/kindle and no problems (10 x 30min journeys a week)

    I'm fuming!


  • #24
    Laneyh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Laneyh


    Lapin wrote: »
    They really are emphasising the differences between the social status of passengers on both lines.

    Almost to the point that this is the motive of the whole programme.

    I'm starting to feel more working class and less affluent by the minute


  • #25
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    I'm not even watching and I get what's going on. Good God, is RTE still so blinkered. Can't wait to see what they make of the train to Balbriggan should that show ever be made.

    Edit that. The bus to Clonee could give RTE some great racial stereotyping to go with too.


  • #26
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    "Before work begins, the technicians shut down the power supply at the sub-station".


    Good thinking there lads.


  • #27
    leftwing cos youre broke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭leftwing cos youre broke


    Sounds like he's peering into peoples bedrooms with the Cherry Picker.


  • #28
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    I'm not even watching and I get what's going on. Good God, is RTE still so blinkered. Can't wait to see what they make of the train to Balbriggan should that show ever be made.

    They tried making that last year but the camera and sound equipment was nicked at Howth Junction. ;)


  • #29
    Lucas Castroman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Lucas Castroman


    I don't see what your problem is??? The red luas line is a cesspit, crawling with some of the lowest forms of life imagineable. This programme is an accurate representation.


  • #30
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    They have interviewed no-one but a deluded whiney culchie who thinks no-one uses a smartphone or tablet or kindle on the Red Line out of fear or poverty and who almost creams himself about the Green line passengers (cue close up of an iPad) and a junkie with a free pass.

    When he gets on the red line, he rolls up his sleeve to reveal his tattoo to intimidate any potential trouble makers :pac:


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  • #31
    thomur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 279 ✭✭thomur


    I wonder was David Drumm a Green Line or a Red line passenger


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