Very poor decision making in relation to the Connolly disruption this morning. Initial incident of southbound DART snagging the OHLE occured just before 0700. Subsequent southbound diesel operated services were delayed by between twenty and thirty five minutes up to 0830 after which Irish Rail decided to commence repairs to the damaged overhead resulting in subsequent services being delayed by up to ninety minutes.
It is very hard to understand why repairs were commenced while thousands of people were still approaching Connolly on heavily overcrowded diesel operated services. Surely repairs could have waited until 0930 or 1000 by which time the majority of commuters would have reached their places of work.
I am not by the way criticising the unfortunate repair crews who had to work in truely miserable weather conditions.
DART services through Connolly were restored around 1250.
A really dismal day for Dublin rail commuters made all the worse by very poor management and decision making.
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