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DART and virtually every other public service - no public consultation

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  • 07-10-2003 7:38pm
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    Floater
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    I don’t know why public service entities such as Irish Rail don’t have a consultation forum on a boards.ie type venue. It doesn’t have to be a formal DART sponsored forum or anything like that. All they need is someone with a nickname that people will over time recognize as “knows what’s happening”.

    “I hear DART from Pearse to Greystones will be closed from 11.10.03 till xx June 2004 from 0001 on Saturday until 0500 on Monday each weekend to enable works for the lengthening of platforms etc. because they forgot to buy double decker trains. This will increase capacity on the system by a paltry 33%, which is about 33% of what is really required on this route. Anyway, isn’t this great news?”

    1. The media would pick it up and hopefully spread the word (free of charge) so that people would be prepared for an absence of weekend services with a little more notice than was given.

    2. “cornerstore” could tell people that 24% of their sales volume comes from customers who live along the DART between PRS and GRY. “This will cost us €72m in sales over the Christmas/NY period.”

    3. “someoneelse” asks if this will affect their train from Arklow or Dundalk which travel over the same route, of which no mention was made in the announcements, presumably for some reason of non-integration in the way CIE management think and operate!

    While they mightn’t wish to be so frank as above, they would get most of the “hostile” feedback they need from a single corner shop to deal with the variables intelligently in advance enabling them to plan more efficiently and be prepared for the fallout as they would see it.

    The same could be applied to virtually every type of public infrastructural, administrative and governmental issue.

    Why such a dumb 18th century “official secrets act” approach to running the country in the 21st century, one that purports to be a republic?

    Floater


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