[15/09/2013] DART and Luas Red Line disruption
 

Some problems....
 

Some people complaining about the Red Cow P and R today...long queues for parking tickets, then LUAS tickets, then no trams with capacity...some seemed to have gotten back into their cars and driven in.
Assume all was ok on DARTS and suburban trains?

On Twitter, they were advising people to go to Cheeverstown.

i was told of 5 trams passing red cow already full.

I do wonder about these events, what costs they impose on transport operators above revenue and to what extent event organisers should have to contribute.

Seemed to be an over-provision of DARTs. Around 12,000 passengers northbound and westbound out of Connolly between 1540 and 1830. 14 DARTs carrying around 4,500, 4 Northern outer suburban carrying around 2,000, 8 Maynooth/Longford carrying around 4,300. The remaining passengers were about 750 to Belfast and 550 to Sligo, each two trains.

DART traffic appears to have been over-estimated while Maynooth and northern outer suburban were particularly heavily loaded. A number of DART specials did not run due to lack of demand.

If you're a transport operator and you can't make a tonne of money by filling to the brim as many trams as you can lay on of a Sunday afternoon, you're doing something wrong.