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THE LUAS GREEN line is experiencing serious delays this morning.
A signal fault early this morning coupled with greater demand for the Luas since the beginning of the Cross City project has lead to significant and frequent delays.
The Luas said that a number of trams will be redirected, turning at The Gallops rather than continuing to Brides Glen.
Passengers have said signal faults have become a regular problem on the Luas Green Line, with one person saying 20 minutes have been added onto their morning commute. Another passenger said that this was the fourth morning in a row of delays.
“There’s more than 100 people at my stop alone at Windy Arbour and it’s impossible to get on a Luas when it comes as it’s wedged,” one passenger who spoke to TheJournal.ie at 8.15am said.
Seven trams have passed but people can’t get on them.
There’s also a 10 minute delay on the Red Line due to a signalling fault at Smithfield.
In a statement on their website, the Luas said:
“Passengers please be advised that we are currently operating with 10 minute delays on the Green Line due to a technical failure at the Sandyford Depot.
This delay is expected to continue throughout peak this morning. Technicians are on site and are working to resolve the issue. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Fine Gael Senator Neale Richmond said that he has written to the Luas directly to ask them to explain these delays. he said that it was clear that the service couldn’t cope with the demand for the service.
“Understandably vexed commuters once again inundated my office all day yesterday and again this morning with complaints following yet more terrible service.
In the mornings this week alone, delays saw some commuters waiting up to thirty minutes for a tram on the Green line section between the Bride’s Glen and Sandyford stops.
“On Tuesday evening, commuters found themselves dumped out at stops such as Harcourt, Beechwood and Milltown; being told to walk the line as far as Balally as yet another tram had broken down.”
Green Party deputy leader Catherine Martin said that following her request Transdev, who operate the Luas service will be invited to explain the Luas delays to the Oireachtas Transport committee.
“These problems were entirely predictable, and responsibility lies with the Government for poor planning,” she said.
Capacity is a massive issue already, and will only get worse as development at Cherrywood kicks off.
Around 100,000 commuters use the Luas service everyday.
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One would hope that this would see the excision of any reference to “blasphemy” from our Statutes, no matter how much Mr. Ahearne was in love with it. It is a provision just awaiting some extremist to avail of.
That’ll unfortunately require a referendum as Dev put that stupid crime in the constitution and then never defined what it was.
The blasphemy law was put in place by Noel Ahearne during the last administration
Hopefully overhauling the equalities act to remove the religious public bodies right to fire someone for their religion (or lack thereof) and sexuality. If ever there was a backward law its one that technically allows a religious run hospital or school to fire someone for being gay or an atheist. Absurd.
Dermot not Noël I think. And the dope has since admitted it was a mistake.
Niall…. That’s BLASPHEMOUS!
Was it? Jesus Christ!
Its hard to beat the brand new law in Sweden that makes it legal to w**k in public.
Lol, you said, “hard to beat”.
It’s the Defamation Act, not a ‘blasphemy law’. Blasphemy is a small part of it and the language is so watered down nobody will ever be convicted under it (I hope).
Where did anyone call it a “blasphemy law”? Try reading the posts. Further the wording as it stands does admit of prosecution, whether or not your learned self thinks it would be successful or not.
Dermot Lane, above, called it ‘the blasphemy law’.
Any chance they could knock that law preventing TD’s being stopped and breathalysed because they are on their way to the Dail?
In the constitution as well. Broadly, TDs and senators can’t be impeded by police if they’re on the way to the Oireachtas.
Kerry, NONE WHATSOEVER,
How about getting rid of the law banning the sale of alcohol on good Friday and Christmas Day?
Because it would lead to violent outrages and general humiliation. #coppers
The penalty for suicide up until 1964 was death by hanging.i wonder could you appeal for leniency
So they rehang a poor suicide victim … That’s overdoing it a bit don’t you think
Yeah. A bit like flogging a dead horse. Hung as a sheep AND a lamb!
Is it still legal to take a dump but not a piss on a public street?
I think you’re allowed to do your wees as long as it’s against the wheel of your carriage.
It is illegal to take a piss on a public street. My “friend” got done for it.
@Denise. I’m trying desperately to imagine the anatomical position that would render that possible
@john. My “friend” got away with the former
I think it’s still legal for pregnant women but I stand open to correction on that.
Beat me too it…
It’s legal to pee in the street if you are a pregnant woman. Can anyone confirm that it is legal to ask for a police mans hat if you are caught short to crap in. I can’t remember where I heard it but it would be interesting to try
Does this mean that ye can marry yer horse without being hung drawn and quartered?
Well I married mine.
(hi honey)
Has the ‘Kings Birthday’ been removed as a day off for public servants?
Fair play to the angry mob.
“A general fast and humiliation”: Troika anyone?
Fast and humiliation…? The chap really was off his rocker.
Say theres a few Clare lads getting fierce excited the ‘obscure’ references to copulating with siblings will be removed from the books.
Clare folk have to have a hobby.
Once I can continue to play games of chance in the town market square I dont mind what they do
Isn’t fast & humiliation just another way of saying AUSTERITY!
Not much has changed!
There must be something they are tring to take on the sly. Between that and potential loss of sheanad and Supreme Court under their control we might not know it yet but we are doomed slaves and fools for letting the pigs run the farm!!
I think you can relax: I don’t think the Supreme Court is being abolished any time soon.
How about laws for victimless ‘crimes’
Nice one!! The White Boys get away with it! It was worth the wait…
I wonder what theGuinness Estate Act1883 , is?
Now I am as well.
We did this in Colorado about 30 years ago and there was an uproar from the clergy about removing adultery from our criminal laws. The Chief Justice said at the hearing, “I know a married man who tried adultery, and he said he couldn’t tell the difference.” It cracked up the proceedings. They left it on the books, but they removed the penalty associated with it, making it non-criminal.
Blasphemy is what last year’s leaf screams at this year’s bud. All laws associated with it are repugnant to human development. Let the clergy tear their sullied gowns over it while we laugh at their all powerful gods needing the help of the legislature, so they won’t be toppled over by reason and true compassion.
I wonder what the Guinness Estate Act 1883 was.
Have you tried here? http://tinyurl.com/GEA1883
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