Not as significant as the Glounthaune to Midleton line reopening in my opinion, but a welcome development nonetheless.
The real significant reopening will be Dunboyne.
Archive for March, 2010
Ennis to Athenry railway reopens
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010“New” transport hub for Belfast
Friday, March 26th, 2010Translink have announced a “new” transport hub for Belfast based on the existing bus/rail stations behind the Europa Hotel. So how, exactly, will this new hub do something that the present station doesn’t? Full story on the Irish Independent site.
Brain dead Brain dead Brain dead
Friday, March 19th, 2010And for once it is not Irish Rail. The Belfast Telegraph has reported on how a musician was removed from a train in England after listing the tracks his band were going to play at an upcoming concert, one of which was by “The Killers”.
LUAS noise not a nuisance
Friday, March 5th, 2010RPA 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.