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

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  • #32
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    thomur wrote: »
    I wonder was David Drumm a Green Line or a Red line passenger

    He lived in Malahide so DART for him if he was going for scoops after work of an evening ;)


  • #33
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    They are implying that no one gets on past around Carrickmines at the Cherrywood and Brides Glens stops at all, and that there is nothing AT ALL out here. Now I get they assumed the industrial estate would be full and that there would be more residential developments, but it isn't a ghost area altogether. It sounds awfully like they are paving the way to cut services.


  • #34
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Lucas Castroman wrote: »
    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.

    Because it was along that line that posh twats kicked a guy to death outside a night club, that a financial institution openly recommended tax evasion that required a masive & expensive enquiry and it was along that line that the very institutions that are supposed to protect us basically sold the country out on the back of loans for scumbag bankers, some of whom live along that line. Oh wait, that's not right!

    You hear an accent and you judge. I know where the real scumbags live and I'll tell you, it might be no harm if some of those "lowest forms of life" got a hold of them.


  • #35
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Looks like there will be lots of fun when the Luas lines link up and the passengers mix.
    I can't fúcking wait. All the junkies who fall asleep and wake up in the train station will now wake up in DSC. Think I'll take a few weeks off and just travel on the tram to watch the show.


  • #36
    seiphil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭seiphil


    I get the luas 5 days a week on the red line and 90% of the time there is never a bother.

    Rte! What a waste of money.


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  • #37
    Lucas Castroman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Lucas Castroman


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    Because it was along that line that posh twats kicked a guy to death outside a night club, that a financial institution openly recommended tax evasion that required a masive & expensive enquiry and it was along that line that the very institutions that are supposed to protect us basically sold the country out on the back of loans for scumbag bankers, some of whom live along that line. Oh wait, that's not right!

    You hear an accent and you judge. I know where the real scumbags live and I'll tell you, it might be no harm if some of those "lowest forms of life" got a hold of them.

    Is this Joe Duffy? Trying to appeal to the common man? As the program outlined, 75% of luas crime occurs on the red line but I'm sure that's society's fault? Anybody who uses the red line will admit it's dangerous and that's due to its trashy clientele.


  • #38
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    seiphil wrote: »
    I get the luas 5 days a week on the red line and 90% of the time there is never a bother.

    Rte! What a waste of money.

    So assuming you get the tram twice a day, a 90% hassle free rate would mean you witness some bother once a week.



    Thats a lot by my reckoning.


  • #39
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    If you pay 1,315 euro for an annual travel pass and forget it then you get a fine and a nasty letter in the post which you have to sort out with Luas HQ. Fair enough.

    If you are a ne'er do well you carry around your battered piece of cardboard, hassle others and at the very most you'll get put off the tram and you can catch the next one a few minutes later.

    The only people who get fined are those who won't talk back


  • #40
    Sir Oxman
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    The representation red vs green was awful, one-sided lazy shíte.


  • #41
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Lucas Castroman wrote: »
    Is this Joe Duffy? Trying to appeal to the common man? As the program outlined, 75% of luas crime occurs on the red line but I'm sure that's society's fault? Anybody who uses the red line will admit it's dangerous and that's due to its trashy clientele.


    How many crimes? What type of crime? God you're easily sold a pup. I doubt anybody every bankrupted a country on the Luad red line. 100% of net emigration is caused by crimes committed along the green line. Wouldn't make ignorant easily sold telly though would it.


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  • #42
    Sideshow Mark
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    Lucas Castroman wrote: »
    Is this Joe Duffy? Trying to appeal to the common man? As the program outlined, 75% of luas crime occurs on the red line but I'm sure that's society's fault? Anybody who uses the red line will admit it's dangerous and that's due to its trashy clientele.

    I use the red line daily and I would never call it dangerous. I find your trolling here to be quite obnoxious.


  • #43
    delaad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    thomur wrote: »
    I wonder was David Drumm a Green Line or a Red line passenger

    He was from Skerries. If only they had been doing the Balbriggan Line back in the day, ........


  • #44
    InchicoreDude
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭InchicoreDude


    seiphil wrote: »
    I get the luas 5 days a week on the red line and 90% of the time there is never a bother.

    Rte! What a waste of money.

    Yeah, its the same for me. I have been on it a lot. And while I have seen some scumbags there, it goes get blown out of proportion. I know some people who say they are too intimidated to get the red line! :confused:


  • #45
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Trains, northsiders, thefts.?... That's Liveline sorted for tomorrow anyway.


  • #46
    Sir Oxman
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    InchicoreDude wrote: »
    Yeah, its the same for me. I have been on it a lot. And while I have seen some scumbags there, it goes get blown out of proportion. I know some people who say they are too intimidated to get the red line! :confused:

    Easy! Flash your custom tattooed arm, look serious and whinge like a bitch about the Red Line and you'll be ok!;)


  • #47
    Lucas Castroman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Lucas Castroman


    Sideshow Mark wrote: »
    I use the red line daily and I would never call it dangerous. I find your trolling here to be quite obnoxious.

    I hope you never make eye contact with the wrong junkie who hops on ... He might change your mind about the red line more than I ever can.


  • #48
    spurious
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    25% of all LUAS crime happens on the leafy southside line?
    I'm shocked. How do they account for it, visitors?


  • #49
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    If you pay 1,315 euro for an annual travel pass and forget it then you get a fine and a nasty letter in the post which you have to sort out with Luas HQ. Fair enough.

    If you are a ne'er do well you carry around your battered piece of cardboard, hassle others and at the very most you'll get put off the tram and you can catch the next one a few minutes later.

    The only people who get fined are those who won't talk back

    Tonight was your best chance to dodge the fares and get a free lift on the trams without getting fined.


    All the inspectors were at home watching themselves on the telly. ;)


  • #50
    Laneyh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Laneyh


    Lucas Castroman wrote: »
    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.

    The red line also links the city's 2 main train stations, carries thousands of passengers to events in the O2, many tourists and plenty of normal people

    The red line serves the IFSC but that doesn't fit in with the working class passenger profile

    BTW would someone mind telling me when exactly being working class or less affluent became a crime?

    There are plenty of boozed up students and gob****es on the green line as well so they could have tried to have a bit more balanced or at least spoken to a transverse section of passengers from both lines.

    Why did we have a close up of some young ones UGG boots?

    I am well aware of the problems on the red line- I have had my phone stolen on it, witnessed fights, begging, general anti-social behaviour and I hate all of that but it's hardly fair to write off the thousands of passengers who happen to travel on that route. It is only a small but vocal minority causing the problems - often not even on the Luas itself but at the stations


  • #51
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,085 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


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

    Guaranteed nice, non-drunken mob type concert goers! You don't want to be cleaning puke off the camera!

    Really disturbing to hear how much racist abuse the crews are getting though. That's really a bad reflection of the city.


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  • #52
    Sideshow Mark
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    Lucas Castroman wrote: »
    I hope you never make eye contact with the wrong junkie who hops on ... He might change your mind about the red line more than I ever can.

    I'll be fine, I've been getting it at least twice a day for the last 5 years and nothing bad has happened to me yet.


  • #53
    Lucas Castroman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Lucas Castroman


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    How many crimes? What type of crime? God you're easily sold a pup. I doubt anybody every bankrupted a country on the Luad red line. 100% of net emigration is caused by crimes committed along the green line. Wouldn't make ignorant easily sold telly though would it.

    Yes Jail the bankers blah blah...you're destracted from what is being talked about. The fact of the matter is you are far more likely to be assaulted on the red line than the green line. But you keep up your - Working class Good, Rich fat cats Bad mantra.


  • #54
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Sideshow Mark wrote: »
    I'll be fine, I've been get it at least twice a day for the last 5 years and nothing bad has happened to me yet.

    Ah poor Lucas leads a sheltered, pampered life. He probably does a little poo if he hears someone talking without marbles in their mouth. His Mammy still looks after all the big calls in his life . The last man to be giving advice.


  • #55
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Lucas Castroman wrote: »
    Yes Jail the bankers blah blah...you're destracted from what is being talked about. The fact of the matter is you are far more likely to be assaulted on the red line than the green line. But you keep up your - Working class Good, Rich fat cats Bad mantra.


    Ah sure if that's what they said on the telly it must be right!


  • #56
    Laneyh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Laneyh


    Lucas Castroman wrote: »
    I hope you never make eye contact with the wrong junkie who hops on ... He might change your mind about the red line more than I ever can.

    Most junkies are incapable of making eye contact to be fair


  • #57
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    spurious wrote: »
    25% of all LUAS crime happens on the leafy southside line?
    I'm shocked. How do they account for it, visitors?

    There is occasional anti-social behaviour from youths from town to Balally and also around Leopardstown Valley to Ballyogan Wood. That said, never have those acting the bollíx been over the age of 14 that I have seen!


  • #58
    srm23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭srm23


    Lithuanian guy running his mouth about OUR dole scroungers, after he took their jobs!


  • #59
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Well that was train crash tv anyway.


  • #60
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    srm23 wrote: »
    Lithuanian guy running his mouth about OUR dole scroungers, after he took their jobs!

    I think there was no fear of those particular people ever looking for jobs to begin with. :D


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  • #61
    Lucas Castroman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Lucas Castroman


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    How many crimes? What type of crime? God you're easily sold a pup. I doubt anybody every bankrupted a country on the Luad red line. 100% of net emigration is caused by crimes committed along the green line. Wouldn't make ignorant easily sold telly though would it.
    Saab Ed wrote: »
    Ah sure if that's what they said on the telly it must be right!

    I am now convinced you are Joe Duffy ... Or some similar champion of the working class. It seems convenient for you to ignore the higher crime rates on the red line the programme remarked upon. The luas red line is the playground for the unemployed, travellers, junkies, skanks and the great unwashed in general.


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