http://busrage.com It's time for an exact change Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Maybe all the money squirreled away from unclaimed change receipts on the buses could be used by Dublin Bus to pay out all these compensation claims. It's not clear what route this happened on, maybe the 70N? The Irish Times [subs required] reports: A man has secured €143,000 damages from the High ... http://busrage.com/2008/05/09/dublin-bus-ordered-to-pay-out-143000-for-passengers-crushed-foot/ Consultants continue to swallow up our transport budget The RPA have published a report explaining why a line it is proposing would cost lots of money, require the purchase of 10 buildings and 150 gardens and wouldn't make enough money to justify itself (their criteria, not mine). To make matter worse, ... http://busrage.com/2008/05/08/expensive-study-of-fantasy-luas-line-published/ Noel Dempsey says he's not sure, doesn't know and remains to be convinced. While appearing to make all the right noises to the media, there is something of the same old story when you actually take a look at the kind of things Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey, is saying in ... http://busrage.com/2008/05/05/transport-minister-rejects-the-need-for-extra-buses/ Some more detail on what we reported last week follows below. The nonsense of the Irish Government's ill-conceived and over complicated integrated ticketing fiasco continues, with the solution to the delays now being to hire more consultants. Of course, why didn't we think if it before! Ian Kehoe of the ... http://busrage.com/2008/05/05/integrated-ticketing-scandal-continues/ A report in today's Sunday Business Post (below) gives some more information on the proposal that has been floating about recently on reducing private motor vehicles from the centre of Dublin. While this is obviously an attempt at kite flying, any plan to reduce cars from the city centre, increase ... http://busrage.com/2008/05/04/traffic-ban-proposed-for-dublin-city-centre/ Even though an integrated system could be introduced tomorrow with the minimum of fuss and using current technologies, the powers that be are continuing to drag their heels. Even worse, it looks like we'll be wasting money on more consultants. Paul Melia in the Irish Independent reports: THE full roll-out of an ... http://busrage.com/2008/05/01/integrated-ticket-system-for-dublin-at-least-two-years-off/ The News Letter reports: TRANSLINK has defended its decision to refuse a woman who applied to be a bus driver on the grounds that she is deemed too fat. The woman, who weighs around 12 stone, has the PSV licence required to drive a large vehicle and has spent 20 years ... http://busrage.com/2008/05/01/translink-refuse-driver-application-for-being-too-fat/ We were interviewed a couple of weeks back on Dublin City 103.2 FM, by "Good Morning Dublin" presenter Valerie Vetter. Issues touched on were integrated ticketing & transport modes, the petition and us pre-empting the announcement of the DTA bill. We even got to talk about Bertie filling his car ... http://busrage.com/2008/04/26/busrage-on-dublin-city-fm/ Anne-Marie Walsh of the Indo writes: THE Luas tram ground to a halt for an hour and a half yesterday morning after a man blocked the line with his jeep before jumping into the Liffey. It is understood that the man parked his car across the tram tracks at Heuston Station around ... http://busrage.com/2008/04/19/crazy-motorist-blocks-luas-and-then-jumps-in-the-liffey/ An article has appeared on rte.ie, announcing the building of a "Luas bridge" between Hawkins Street on the southside of Dublin with (cough cough) Hawkins Street on the northside. The theory goes that this would carry the Luas between the red and green lines (aka Luas line BX). Now, a bridge ... http://busrage.com/2008/04/17/luas-bridge-to-be-built-for-cars-and-buses/