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![]() Hopefully they don't mean the displays will just show the timetable and instead they'll set up some kind of feed to the present system, so there's a semblance of real-time info.
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![]() agreed, it is needed but needs to be realistic at the same time.
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![]() So... give the drivers Blackberrys with Google Latitude or Glympse loaded so a fella at Connolly can check where they are?
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![]() It will just show the timetable nothing more
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![]() Am I right in saying that the indicators at Navan Road Parkway haven't been altered to show the new timetable? They seem to ignore trains bound for M3 Parkway. This could be very misleading.
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![]() Has anyone heard anymore on hows it going with these station refurbishment works?
Ive seen the notices but there doesn't seem to have been any action yet. |
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![]() No info displays online as of yet in coolmine or castleknock.
In coolmine they have (re)planted new bushes behind the maynooth bound platform. Also new bins and new seats like the metal ones they have in stations. The rain shelters have also been removed but not replaced yet. Presumably a job for the weekend. This weekend hopefully. There was also work done out in the car park, with a new boundary wall built on one side. The bike shed has been moved up to the otherside of the station building too (further away from the road). Mainly visual improvements. The new bike shed I'm sure is welcome for the cyclists. To be honest, new metal seats arent worth much to me. Most people at commuter stops dont wait terribly long and you'd freeze your arse off sitting on them in winter. The old bin was as good as the new one. If they really wanted to improve my passenger experience, some sort of quasi real time (gps or whatever) information system would have been nice. Or even go mad and give us longer or more trains! But I guess beggers cant be choosers. |
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![]() yip, they are ripping ashtown station apart also, hopefully they'll put in another ticket machine on the city bound platform...
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![]() It's a pity the budget wouldn't stretch to resurfacing the second platform and putting a pedestrian bridge in at Enfield.
That would give real benefits in reliability for Longford and Maynooth commuters as it would allow easy unscheduled crossings at Enfield. Currently if a train gets delayed, the need to hold a train either at Killucan or Maynooth or reverse a train back out of Enfield to swap platforms. But they would rather blow the money on putting in shiny new shelters and bins everywhere for no real passenger benefit, because these are more visible. |
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![]() The legal obligation to provide an accessible footbridge would be triggered at Enfield if they did that. The budget for the current works wouldn't got far in that case.
Enfield is clearly in need of being sorted out ASAP but it will need to be a separate source of funding. There is a lot of political image games being played currently, the total budget available is tiny really. To be fair shelters do come up over and over again.
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![]() Quote:
Only stations not getting this is Clonsilla (has its own works going on) and the m3 parkway stations (practically brand new) |
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![]() Actually, there are lots of stations receiving minor improvements at various levels.
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