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[27-2-2006] DART services disrupted by unofficial strike
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Fair play that DART issued a PR on their site about this aswell.
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Can confirm train cancellations this morning roughly as follows
09:02 Malahide Greystones (assumed as 10:35 cancelled) 10:35 Greystones Malahide (confirmed) 12:00 Malahide Bray (return of 10:35) Excuse was operational difficulty, no details of cancelled trains on IE website There has been no timetable changes so I can't see what is causing this Mod note moved to Dublin customer issues |
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Note no details of which trains cancelled yet despite the fact I can list 3 already it doesn't take long to work out which links are missing drivers Its looking like the usual NBRU Vs SIPTU turf war again |
A serious question mark hangs over these 5 services
16:29 Connolly Dun Laoghaire 17:10 Connolly Bray 17:02 Dun Laoghaire Howth 17:35 Connolly Bray 18:00 Howth Bray |
These are the same bunch of prats who wanted extra money to drive 8-car trains. What trivial reason do they have for taking action this time? I think the public and P11 should let them know in no uncertain terms that they are not willing to pay taxes to keep such people in highly-paid jobs.
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I'm first in the queue to order the equipment to fill the empty rack in the electrical cabinet with the driverless equipment
Last time round this was issued at 10pm in expectation of choas (I was sitting on a platform delayed by 20 minutes due to a cancellation at the time) http://www.platform11.org/media/prin...no=pr_041.html Despite it not going ahead there where some cancellations |
Even if not driver-less the union contract should be redrawn to add a no strike clause. It is a disgrace that they strike over such trivial matters. How you would change the contract without causing a strike is the problem.
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There exists a clause in the "New Deal" which provides a pay bonus for industrial relations stability over a certain period, i.e the no strike clause
Connex have had there day of Luas flu despite a no strike clause. IE have yet to provide a list of cancellations |
IE have still not yet provided a list of cancellations
IE now quoting 75% of all services operating, thats roughly 2 trains per hour in each direction during the evening rush cancelled The station displays are saying, "A limited DART service is operating" The following are cancelled 16:40 Howth Bray 17:10 Connolly Bray 17:35 Connolly Bray 17:25 Howth Bray |
What part of industrial peace do SIPTU not understand? They have quite happily accepted increase after increase and yet are unwilling to play by the rules. :mad:
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Was out on the DART this afternoon, and there seemed to be quite a few cancelled services. The information boards seem to have difficulty with the concept of a cancelled train, with a number of trains showing they were a non-changing time away until they disappeared and an announcement stated they had been cancelled for "operational reasons".
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Between 5pm and 6pm last night a total of 4 southbound services where cancelled there should be 8 trains in that period, needless to say it was rather packed going home
Northbound wasn't too bad but it was painfully full on the 17:15 Bray Malahide (Pearse 17:55) it of course was a 6 coach train when it normally is a 8 coach which made matters worse So this is what the status was according to IE in Pearse southbound at 17:34 Attachment 58 The trains marked as due 7 minutes and 20 minutes where cancelled yet IE continued to show them as running the passenger hasn't a hope when IE provide false information |
I can't help wondering if IE management were playing a game of tit-for-tat with the unions, at the customers expense.
The information boards seemed to count down trains that were cancelled until just minutes before they were due to arrive. Surely someone must have known they had never left Howth? Was the information system just going through the motions in the hopes that a train would miracously appear somewhere along the way? It looks like the managers were childishly refusing to intervene and passengers were left with no helpful information. I also think that the stock could have been better managed. With the reduced number of trains, there should have been more stock available to run 8-car sets, but there doesn't seem to have been any effort to make sure that as many trtains as possible were 8 cars. I saw several running as 4-cars between 4pm and 6pm. |
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