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  • #32
    bikeman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭bikeman1


    end of the road wrote: »
    is it a waste of money though? sure, you and me won't benefit from it but with the trains getting shorter meaning more standing they could be beneficial to some, maybe your right and it is a waste, i don't know

    Sure I can hardly move on some DARTs in the evening let alone grab some silly straps dangling from the roof!

    I and others I'm sure would rather a couple of extra carriages!


  • #33
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,769 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    bikeman1 wrote: »
    I and others I'm sure would rather a couple of extra carriages!


    well no worries, IE have carriges coming out of their ears if only they would use them

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #34
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,744 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    davidlacey wrote: »
    They chopped some in cork yard last week, correct, the ones in mallow rumour has it maybe overhauled

    The ones on the siding near the water tower near the bridge ?


  • #35
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,240 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    bikeman1 wrote: »
    I read the other day that €500,000 is to be spent on putting straps on the DART for passengers to hold on to. Now I use the DART everyday for getting in and out to work for the last 7 years and I have never found the need for such things. More money wasted.

    Are they going to be the same types of straps that are being used on the Luas? Are they used regularly by Luas passengers at all?

    To pay €500k for those alone is a scandalous waste of money from IE. I'll bet now that the passengers won't have much opportunities to use them when they come around because they may not get much room when moving within a cramped DART while on their commute or some other occasion.


  • #36
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,939 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    To pay €500k for those alone is a scandalous waste of money from IE. I'll bet now that the passengers won't have much opportunities to use them when they come around because they may not get much room when moving within a cramped DART while on their commute or some other occasion.

    It isn't IE's money, I'm sure its what the NTA came up with that sum?


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  • #37
    steamengine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭steamengine


    One wonders is this how the term 'cashstrapped' came about ?


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