Happy Birthday Dart, Its 25 today. !!

Run_to_da_hills

Its 25 years old today, !!!

Love it or hate it because you will have to put up with it for at least another 25 years because.

http://news.eircom.net/breakingnews/16129213/?view=Standard

Terry

Yeah, and it still sucks. Rabble drunks rabble junkies rabble D4 rabble.

Ok, that's the whining done.

Wazdakka

And they still havent figured out how to keep 2 tracks running on time :rolleyes:

WIZE

Happy Birthday Dart


Now get rid of it and build an underground rail system

Pop's Diner

I remember I went with my da to Bray on it (started at Howth) when it first opened. Don't think my da has ever used the Dart since and dont' think I've ever been back to Bray since then come to think of it?

keano_afc

25 years and they still havent figured out how to operate it properly when it rains.

OldGoat

BVB wrote: »

Happy Birthday Dart
Now get rid of it and build an underground rail system

Noooo. Some great views from the Dart. Some interesting views from the Dart. Some really horrifying views from the Dart. But at least they are views. I detest the underground.

Did anyone else ever try to do a Dart Pub crawl? Starting in Bray (before they opened the Greystones station) have a pint, go on to the next station, have a pint, go on to the next station...

4zn76tysfajdxp

They're holding a concert to celebrate...a train? What the hell is going on here?

Run_to_da_hills

BVB wrote: »

Happy Birthday Dart


Now get rid of it and build an underground rail system

Totally agree, it is built on an antiquated victorian rail line that serves the coast on almost 50% of its catchment area.

In the last 25 years we could have had one of the most advanced metro systems in Europe but we didnt instead the funds were blown on one of the largest white elephants in europe the port tunnel, that is so costly to use that no one will bother their ho*le to use it.

Cool_CM

Norah Wooden Kickback wrote: »

They're holding a concert to celebrate...a train? What the hell is going on here?

Be Glad it's not mass!

That_Guy

Norah Wooden Kickback wrote: »

They're holding a concert to celebrate...a train? What the hell is going on here?

I can picture it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xXQFnIEf_Q

Wazdakka

Cool_CM wrote: »

Be Glad it's not mass!

I do love a good mass.

Terry

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Totally agree, it is built on an antiquated victorian rail line that serves the coast on almost 50% of its catchment area.

In the last 25 years we could have had one of the most advanced metro systems in Europe but we didnt instead the funds were blown on one of the largest white elephants in europe the port tunnel, that is so costly to use that no one will bother their ho*le to use it.

No, you're not building a tunnel where I live.

One of the good things about dictatorships is that tunnels get built and the locals can STFU about it.

We need a law preventing bored people from objecting to planning laws.

More trains on weekends please!

AnonoBoy

It's no BART, I tells ya that much.

DublinWriter

I watched The Commitments the other day and it was funny to see one of the characters smoking on the DART.

These days we'd lock her up in the 'joy. What a mad, crazy people we were back then, what with our spontaneous breaking into song on the DART, poverty and all that.

Pal

somebody got their dates wrong. I remember the DART running in May 1984.

Alessandra

I've never been on the DART.

Dravokivich

Cool_CM wrote: »

Be Glad it's not mass!

Wazdakka wrote: »

I do love a good mass.

there's a time for action and there's a time for mass...

- Drav!

Run_to_da_hills

Pal wrote: »

somebody got their dates wrong. I remember the DART running in May 1984.

Testing went back several months before the date, the ribbon was cut and the official opening began 25 years ago to the day.

Bluefoam

Its a shame after 25 years they can't produce a decent time table - there is a 45 min wait between darts in the evening...

The policy of having bigger trains and running them less often is a pile of ****e...

Leixlip_Red

Bluefoam wrote: »

Its a shame after 25 years they can't produce a decent time table - there is a 45 min wait between darts in the evening...

The policy of having bigger trains and running them less often is a pile of ****e...

Welocme to the Irish transport system

Run_to_da_hills

Bluefoam wrote: »

Its a shame after 25 years they can't produce a decent time table - there is a 45 min wait between darts in the evening...

The policy of having bigger trains and running them less often is a pile of ****e...

I had suggest that they reintroduce the two car dart sets at night.

biko

I've been on it once, was ok I guess

Mossy Monk

I have used it twice. I'd rather crawl.

Dades

I love the DART (use it every weekday).
Occasionally there's issues but more often than not it's a smooth ride.

As long as I work in town would only ever live on the DART line.

Don't understand the vitriol against it, tbh.

stovelid

I, for one, would like to thank the Dart for providing cheap, rapid access from town to a variety of middle-class seaside towns every summer where myself and many other youths could happily run amok, play the slots, drink cans, shoplift and meet posh girls.

Here's to another 25!

Run_to_da_hills

Dades wrote: »

I love the DART (use it every weekday).
Occasionally there's issues but more often than not it's a smooth ride.

As long as I work in town would only ever live on the DART line.

Don't understand the vitriol against it, tbh.

If the service was FOC every 5 minutes people would still bitch about it.

JerryHandbag

Indeed. Happy Birthday Lord Vader.

achtungbarry

This birthday has been delayed for operational reasons.

Royale with Cheese

Used to live on the thing when I was younger. Then I learned to drive, then they introduced a decent bus route that is much closer to my house and gets me into town quicker than the dart.

I rarely use it these days.

wixfjord

Tis my 21st birthday today, **** you DART stealing my thunder. :mad:

Wazdakka

wixfjord wrote: »

Tis my 21st birthday today, **** you DART stealing my thunder. :mad:

It is also these peoples Bdays..

Daniel Radcliffe (20)
Michelle Williams (29)
Monica Lewinsky (36)
Charisma Carpenter (39)
Slash (44)
Woody Harrelson (48)
Bert Convy (76)


I need slash & Charisma Carpenter's addresses I think..

Splinter

HA! I'm older than the dart by 4 months! f**k you buddy!

Lia_lia

Wazdakka wrote: »

It is also these peoples Bdays..


Charisma Carpenter (39)

Wow, didn't realise she was that old.

o1s1n

wixfjord wrote: »

Tis my 21st birthday today, **** you DART stealing my thunder. :mad:

It's my 25th birthday today.

How do you think I feel!?

I might just go to one of the celebration things and pretend it's all for me...

How I went 25 years without knowing the first dart run ever was the day I was born I'll never know. Especially as I used to get the damn thing every day.

SEPT 23 1989

congratulations to Slash for being alive

well done sir

Duckjob

The DART is ok. What we really need though is a MONORAIL.

thelordofcheese

Duckjob wrote: »

The DART is ok. What we really need though is a MONORAIL.

I hear those things are awfully loud...

Wazdakka

thelordofcheese wrote: »

I hear those things are awfully loud...

It glides as softly as a cloud.

Duckjob

Wazdakka wrote: »

It glides as softly as a cloud.

It's not the train. It's all that damn singing that goes with it :pac:

keano_afc

Wazdakka wrote: »

It glides as softly as a cloud.

Is there a chance the track would bend?

Wazdakka

keano_afc wrote: »

Is there a chance the track would bend?

Not on your life, my Hindu friend.

We should probably stop this before a perfectly good thread ends up being moved to TCN...

4zn76tysfajdxp

Wazdakka wrote: »

We should probably stop this before a perfectly good thread ends up being moved to TCN...

Mono....D'oh!

OldGoat

We need a Matt Groening version of Godwins Law.

keano_afc

Norah Wooden Kickback wrote: »

Mono....D'oh!

I call the big one Bitey.

BraziliaNZ

i like the DART, there just aren't enough of them, so you have to time them at weekends and off peak hours or you can be waiting 17 mins, that goes down to 12, then back to 14, then 15, then 9, then 13 etc. etc.
Also sometimes leaves get on the tracks and it stalls everything ffs!

Trev M

Heh the Dart is great... I remeber reading in the southside news about this couple who'd jump on usually around syndey parade or in or around that stop have a quickie in front a carriage full off people and hop off .... It took months to apprehend the phantom shaggers.