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[PR] Your city needs you!‏ - TransportForDublin.ie

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  • 04-11-2009 12:39pm
    #1
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,278 ✭✭✭✭


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    Dear Victor,

    We are delighted to announce that our website TransportForDublin.ie will shortly be going live. As someone who has recently subscribed to it, we value your opinions.

    Please take the time to logon to http://www.transport4dublin.ie/t4d.php. Move around the site, see what we have to offer and more importantly, see if it delivers as an informative website.

    Your opinions are very important to us. And you can share them with us by going to our ‘Your Feedback’ page. If you feel there are ways in which we can improve, or indeed, if you are happy with the website, please let us know.



    Thanks from everyone at Transport For Dublin.


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    BrianD
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    Pretty poor site. You can see it was built by civil servants. What does the "Luas Line BXD" mean to anyone? Why not divide it by locales so people it can get people interested eg. "Luas Connolly to the Docklands" would get a lot more clicks the "Luas Line C1"


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    patrickmooney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭patrickmooney


    Really bad website. I've sent them some of my comments. No where near TFL.gov.uk. Really a shame.


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    markpb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,253 ✭✭✭markpb


    It seems like they went out of their way to make a site that is useful rather than just a site that describes what they do (P21 project management) but I'm not sure they've succeeded. It feels like it lacks focus or a target market (other than just C&T readers :)). Compared with Boston, LA or London, it fails a bit miserably.

    Edit: Jaysus, could they not find a better photo of the Dart!


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    Nostradamus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Nostradamus


    Another year another rebranding of the same old lies and false hopes.


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    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,519 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    patrickmooney wrote: »
    Really bad website. I've sent them some of my comments. No where near TFL.gov.uk. Really a shame.

    Not comparing like with like. tfl.gov.uk is the website of one of the world's biggest public transport companies, with nearly 30,000 employees, and thousands more who are staff working for the companies who do contract work for London Buses.

    Transport 4 Dublin is a website provided by a project office that is not responsible for anything other than information collation and probably has less than a handful of employees.


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    Nostradamus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Nostradamus


    They should rename it Transport Dublin 4 - i,e; highly paid civil servants driving to work.


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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,710 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    I'm not sure that combining info about Projects (ie future changes that might not be implemented for a while) and Current services is a good idea. A relatively small number of what you might call transport-geeks care about the former. A massive audience care about the latter.

    Obviously readers here don't like TFD much.

    However, I'm looking for regional public transport information sites to put on the "home page" of the site where my search-for-buses tools are (www.IrishTransport.info)

    Is there anything better for Dublin?

    And does anyone know of similar sites for other Irish town/cities? (Including from NI). I've seen Cork city council's public transport page, which seemed to be good for all aspects - except buses!

    (I'm not trying to do a thread hi-jack, even though this kinda feels like one. But it's just such a good fit of a place to ask ...)


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    What is the difference between this bollockology and this other bollockology from 2008 can ANYBODY tell me? :(


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    #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nice, the only thing I could find on cycling in Dublin on that website was something on the Dublin Bikes scheme which linked off to another website. I was thinking that at least it'd have a map similar to dto.ie with cycle lanes but not even that. None of the ongoing cycling projects that have been announced in other quarters.


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