touche TJS.
To be fair I couldn't see a prosecution against someone for using their mobile phone on a train holding up. or for using a walkman. |
There has been an increase in busking on the darts no matter what time of the day you are on it. Last week i was going into town from Dun Laoghaire at lunch time and there was two non irish busking. I actually felt very intimated by them, as they were very pushy looking for money and with no security around, i got very frightened and got off at the next stop and waited for the next dart into town.
Can IE not do something about them. |
Tell the driver, he or she will either stop and wait for the Gardai or arrange to have them meet the train at the next main station. Its easy blame Irish Rail but if you don't report it on the spot there is nothing that can be done
It is an offense to beg, busk etc anywhere on the railway |
Hi Mark. There is no IE officals on the train to report it and how can you report it to the driver when you don't see him and to be honest after along day work and commute the last thing you want to be doing us waiting around for the gardai to come and deal with them.
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The train has a driver and in my experience if you report something they will take very quick action. Simply march up to the front of the train and you will find the driver
Sadly in some cases this will result in a delay to the train, but that sends a message that anti-social and other illegal activaties will not be tolerated which creates an image of a safe public transport system |
Bang on Mark. No-one should be frightened on any public service as this will not be tolerated. The train driver will be very quick in reacting to this matter.
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I own two tape players, but no, I don't carry them around. :)
The objective was to prevent rules lawyering. |
Thanks to bloody IE I cant play my Cole Porter 33's anymore as the needle keeps skipping due to the fecking bumpy track :mad:
after all that time i spent in that swiss deportment school with those nubile teenage girls learning how to balance the record player on my lap and all. i shall be sending them my invoice |
Yo Yo Yo! Dis goes out to all my Brothers & Sisters on d DART crew. Respect to d R.U.I. posse - WORD :D |
Busking is another of those issues where total bans can be over the top, and total permission can be disastrous too. I remember someone trying to argue that it was an issue of freedom of speech, and I thought: he's not helping his cause. Busking has legitimacy only insofar as it adds atmosphere to a place; it cannot be a right. Which points back to a licensing system, as some countries have.
I think some buskers I have seen on the DART are Hungarian gipsies. In Hungary there is more of a tradition of gipsy musicians playing in all sorts of places (e.g. restuarants), and expected to be paid by the listeners, unlike here where they would be paid by the owner of the place. |
Busking on the Dart
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...258921057.html
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Oh please. It's called public transport for a reason you know.
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Anyone who has a problem with people playing music or asking for money on trains or at stations should report it to the driver or to the booking clerk at any station. Both are against the CIÉ bylaws. I've done so on several occasions and the offenders were removed from CIÉ property fairly sharpish.
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I was on a dart recently with the above going on.
Security came up from carriage behind but by the time security entered the carriage the 2 people sat down and security just walked by them and stopped. The people playing the music got off at the next stop Nothing was said to them. |
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Funny enough there is another older thread http://www.railusers.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=2102 goes by the exact same name. With an interesting question raised as to if should be allowed compared to other countries |
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I know its not directly not related to the thread but seen as though its one of the rules mentioned above.
I noticed that there is an increasingly number of beggars in the main station in connolly. Its starting to get annoying as they are coming up to you every day. I have had the same guy come up to me every day. I have given him four or five euro but he kept on saying to me can you go to the atm and take out more when i told him i had no other change. When i said no yesterday he gave me a bit of grief but went away. I have seen him every day for the last week , at different times uses the same excuse that he has just got off the boat and offer change for petrol for the car or the bus fare . |
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there are of course "quiet zones" on intercity trains, which of course is either a wonderful invention or an admission that the existing bye-laws are not going to be enforced on the rest of the train, depending on how cynical one is. anyway, bonus points to the man who wrote that letter about the accordion playing by our friends from the east. it is well known that as well as water boarding the CIA would sometimes go to such extreme measures as bringing in such people into the interrogation rooms for the extraction of information from hardened terrorists. If that failed they would then resort to Country and Irish :eek: |
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