There are a lot of blanks to fill on my end, so I'm asking in general as to what this will mean. So far, all I've gleaned from the WWW is that Sinn Fein "won big"...but I don't know what that's going to mean, also that Ahern will be "shuffling" his cabinet come September. What's going to come out of this...?
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Impact of elections on transportation policies?
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Maybe Al someone in FF will get out the abacus and do some calculations based on the following....
FF Minister for Transport attempts to Force through a deeply flawed Non-Policy on Public Transport which will have seriously negative impact on Both the Transport Regeime as a whole and particularly on Staff wages and conditions.
Then let the same electoral genius total up the "Lost" FF votes and cross reference that figure with the CIE "Influenced" Votes.
If you were a polititian of any sense you would be going "Hmmmmmmm........have to have a rethink here...."
Since Mr Brennan appears not to be too well endowed in the thinking department it is unlikely he could manage a RE think,BUT...there are others in FF who are not so enamoured of the "Half-Finished" Minister and It is to be hoped they will prevail !!Posted 4 years ago # -
Hmm, have to have a rethink, must do nothing..a bit like Rourkey?
[posted by: Ronald Binge (soon to be expatriate]Posted 4 years ago # -
If you want to see the impact of elections on public transport, take a bus to Swords - the mess around the Pavillions is so much a direct legacy of the Ray Burke saga they practically buily a shrine to him on the grounds of the house he lived in.
Seriously though, I remember as a student occasionally getting the 13 bus (before they totally destroyed the service about 7 years ago and broke it in two) and was delighted to see that Prionsias de Rossa also was a regular user. Much of the problem of public transport is that the vast majority of politicians from local level upwards represent the better off, well heeled car owning commuters. Its like what Thatcher said: there is a perception that anybody getting the bus after the age of 30 is a failure.
I would hazard a guess that horrific damage was done to Dublin Bus in the mid to late 1990s - I certainly saw it when living in both Swords and Ranelagh/Rathmines - routes torn up and rewritten, messy plans that actually detroyed reasonably good services. But what I don't understand most is that lack of coherent planning between Irish Rail and the bus companies - its incredible that companies that are all part of the same company can totally ignore each others plans!Posted 4 years ago # -
The ironic thing is that all of this route-chopping and rearranging has, according to the new annual reports, resulted in a surplus for DB. Now I'd call it creative accounting, because all of the route-rearranging and renumbering costs money, and there is no way in Satan's black Hell that you're going to see a return on it that quickly, especially if there are losses in patronage. This can of worms has only started to empty out, I suspect...
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