Good call. The worst option would have been sticking to it rather than accept the issue and fix it.
However, the decision making process does need to be audited now.
Elbon on
Bet the mods favourite eyebrow someone will be complaining the old timetable was worse.
fedupofbrick on
Good to see them put their hands up and revert back.
Pointlessillism on
Thank god.
We’ve just got to invest properly in Connolly and quad tracking. So much other DART+ improvements are just not going to happen without that.
devhaugh on
Nice. The last 5 weeks have been hell.
EchoVolt on
At least they didn’t stick to it, but I’m amazed they got their modelling THAT badly wrong.
_LightEmittingDiode_ on
Just goes to show they haven’t a clue what they are doing. If they couldn’t roughly emulate the timings and have contingencies, doesn’t inspire much confidence in their abilities for managing an expanding network. Anybody who lives on the northern line could have said this was optimistic at best, without the provisions for the Howth to Howth Junction shuttle in place.
taibliteemec on
Why are Irish Rail taking the hit for this when it was the government who forcd it onto the NTA who forced Irish Rail to implement it? Irish Rail were against this from the start right?
Imbecile_Jr on
I mean, we need to take a long hard look at our pathetic infrastructure and how to get it up to speed with some sort of acceptable modern standards.
limestone_tiger on
Fair play to them – they admitted they got it wrong.
But maybe they need some new blood to come in and do the modeling as they should have seen it coming
WellWellWell2021 on
When is this going back to normal. Because im in the car until it is back to normal.
Charming-Potato4804 on
One-way ticket only!
the_sneaky_one123 on
Are they reverting all the changes? I was enjoying the later trains on the waterford line.
eggsbenedict17 on
Finally some accountability
Other public bodies could learn from this from IR
BadgerChief on
There are a few things to be taken from this.
One: Why are Irish Rail the ones getting railroaded for this when they were forced into making these decisions.
Two: Fair play to Irish Rail, for everything they have had to deal with over the last few weeks. As someone who has worked a lot of customer facing rolls, dealing with complaints totally out of my control, well done to all the staff, genuinely, it must’ve been stressful with all of the (legitimate) complaints.
Three: The thing I like about all of this is, in our current climate of stagnation, where projects live and die, lost in a cycle of debate and protest, at least someone tried something, someone tried to improve things. Did it work? No, but I’ll take attempts at improvement, realising ‘whoops, that was a mistake, let’s undo that’ over doing nothing at all.
Joellercoaster1 on
Someone said do it, someone said ‘that won’t work’ and the other someone said ‘we’re not here to make things work, we’re here to make decisions.’
NopePeaceOut2323 on
It’s only the morning one… for my line the afternoon one was way worse.
boohoo3210 on
They are as useless as the government. What a shower of overpaid wasters
SoloWingPixy88 on
What was the intent behind the change, it doesn’t feel much notice was given.
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Good call. The worst option would have been sticking to it rather than accept the issue and fix it.
However, the decision making process does need to be audited now.
Bet the mods favourite eyebrow someone will be complaining the old timetable was worse.
Good to see them put their hands up and revert back.
Thank god.
We’ve just got to invest properly in Connolly and quad tracking. So much other DART+ improvements are just not going to happen without that.
Nice. The last 5 weeks have been hell.
At least they didn’t stick to it, but I’m amazed they got their modelling THAT badly wrong.
Just goes to show they haven’t a clue what they are doing. If they couldn’t roughly emulate the timings and have contingencies, doesn’t inspire much confidence in their abilities for managing an expanding network. Anybody who lives on the northern line could have said this was optimistic at best, without the provisions for the Howth to Howth Junction shuttle in place.
Why are Irish Rail taking the hit for this when it was the government who forcd it onto the NTA who forced Irish Rail to implement it? Irish Rail were against this from the start right?
I mean, we need to take a long hard look at our pathetic infrastructure and how to get it up to speed with some sort of acceptable modern standards.
Fair play to them – they admitted they got it wrong.
But maybe they need some new blood to come in and do the modeling as they should have seen it coming
When is this going back to normal. Because im in the car until it is back to normal.
One-way ticket only!
Are they reverting all the changes? I was enjoying the later trains on the waterford line.
Finally some accountability
Other public bodies could learn from this from IR
There are a few things to be taken from this.
One: Why are Irish Rail the ones getting railroaded for this when they were forced into making these decisions.
Two: Fair play to Irish Rail, for everything they have had to deal with over the last few weeks. As someone who has worked a lot of customer facing rolls, dealing with complaints totally out of my control, well done to all the staff, genuinely, it must’ve been stressful with all of the (legitimate) complaints.
Three: The thing I like about all of this is, in our current climate of stagnation, where projects live and die, lost in a cycle of debate and protest, at least someone tried something, someone tried to improve things. Did it work? No, but I’ll take attempts at improvement, realising ‘whoops, that was a mistake, let’s undo that’ over doing nothing at all.
Someone said do it, someone said ‘that won’t work’ and the other someone said ‘we’re not here to make things work, we’re here to make decisions.’
It’s only the morning one… for my line the afternoon one was way worse.
They are as useless as the government. What a shower of overpaid wasters
What was the intent behind the change, it doesn’t feel much notice was given.