March 5th, 2010
RPA 1, Public 0
But that hardly surprises me.
The story here (from RTE) is a couple who took the RPA to court over the noise of the LUAS at the end of their garden. Two points in the judgement of Justice Mary Laffoy are worth commenting on as they show why the public have no rights in this country, only the duty to pay the bills of cretinous organisations like the RPA.
She stated that the noise issue was covered in the Railway Order. Anyone with a brain knows that Railway Order inquiries are a sham and ultimately unconstitutional as they reject anything that would require the submission of a new order by the requesting body (the failure rate of such inquiries must be at the same level as planning permission rejections, otherwise the State is failing to treat all equally or not at all).
The second point is that the RPA have failed to comply with a requirement to set daytime and nighttime noise levels, but her learned justice stated that this does not prove a nuisance. What happened to the old common law requirement of approaching equity with clean hands?
Justice Laffoy is another stuffed shirt in an ivory tower. Maybe one day, the Irish people will elect a Government that will revoke the administrative sanction of all Quangos (including the RPA) and then we will see Frank Allen & Co squirm.
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February 26th, 2010
Next year, I am definitely running the ‘Vote for Broomebridge” campaign.
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February 21st, 2010
It has just struck me. I filed my first complaint with Irish Rail in February 1990. Therefore, I have been putting manners on IR for 20 years now, both on and offline.
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February 12th, 2010
It has been reported that Irish Rail will be offering hugs for Haiti in Heuston Station this evening. I think I would pay IR staff not to hug me. Now maybe, if you were offering hugs to those passengers hit with your penalty fare due to the inability to buy a ticket because your stations were unmanned and ticket machines not working.
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February 10th, 2010
Oh dear! My favourite public transport company (they beat Irish Rail to that title, which is no mean feat) suffered an embarrassing breakdown near Ballymoney today and passengers had to be evacuated by ladder and walked along the track.
Did you charge the passengers with trespass?
Full story here
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February 4th, 2010
Well, I suppose it takes so long to get to Derry by train that it probably counts as such! In all seriousness though, if this is what counts for strategic thinking on railway development, the future is not bright for railways in Northern Ireland.
Read the full story here.
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January 30th, 2010
According to the Evening Herald, the Stasi are to patrol the LUAS complete with truncheons. Can anyone carry and use a truncheon, given that it is now obviously legal to set up your own private army.
Can’t wait for the first tramspotter to be beaten up for taking a photo.
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January 22nd, 2010
The RTE website is an occasional source of information for this website and in fairness to them, they tend to get their stock photos correct.
However, that photo accompanying the story of the reopening of the Limerick to Ennis line is neither Limerick, nor Ennis - not even the West Coast!
It is Maynooth in Co. Kildare.
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January 21st, 2010
Build your “traincare” depot in Portlaoise with only one exit, did we?
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January 20th, 2010
I wonder what happened to them - Gregg Ryan’s USA based baby? You’d have thought that an Irish Rail and Transport Foundation should be based in Ireland (in one or other of the two jurisdictions), but no, Irish Rail’s heritage officer chose New York.
What jogged my memory on this stillborn baby was a tidying up of my house and collection of old leaflets, web printouts etc. and I found a hardcopy of all of the pages of the website www.irft-ie.org.
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