Leapcard has still got some living up to do!
Ok this post is all about blowing off some steam about some of the flaws in the current implementation of the leap card system. Let’s put this way, i’m not entirely sure what’s the point in it being “live” when these issues are present, as I consider them pretty much fundamental to the the usability...
What’s the story like? 1/2012
It’s a new year, its a new dawn and all that stuff and i need a job! Hello 2012, may you be a good one! Well kicked off the year with my first ever web application competition entry for the #Apps4Fingal competition. You may have see my entry, it’s UrbanRural and i’m going to give...
![[OPEN DATA] NTA NaPTAN Mapped](http://dt106ers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Screen-shot-2011-12-14-at-16.54.07-290x290.png "[OPEN DATA] NTA NaPTAN Mapped")
[OPEN DATA] NTA NaPTAN Mapped
A quick post today showing just the sort of data that has been made available through the DubLinked project. I attended the recent DubLinked workshop in IBM themed around planning data. It was great fun had some serious chats with @josephcorr and @Fingal_Data_Hub on the upcoming #Apps4Fingal competition, and no I have not come up with a proper...
![[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5](http://dt106ers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/RapidTransportMap10122011-290x290.png "[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5")
[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5
First I would like to say thanks a million to all those who provided feedback on my first version of the Dublin transport map, you all know who you are, thank you! Before I show you the revised map I would like to explain my design process a bit better so as to clear up some...
Dublin Rapid Transit Map – Feedback please!
Ok anyone who has met me or listened to me talk about transport will know I’m a bit of nut for mass public transport and how its portrayed to the public. Not sure if you remember but last year a Aris Venetikidis completed a future fantasy (with a lot of fact) complete transport map for Dublin as...
News Roundup – Technology, Technology and DATA
We start this week wit the announcement of a new website ram packed with old Central Statistics Office data from the last census but shows a lot of promise! Decision Map DecisionMap.ie - Is new online resource which maps census data on a number of levels including the electoral distrcts and provides one of those cool percentage box type things...
Grangegorman SDZ Oral Hearing – The last hurdle?
So as the end of the planning procedure element of the redevelopment of St Brendans Hospital or Grangegorman as we have all come to know draws to a close, what do we think of it? Will it be built? Should it be built in absence of the LUAS line which is supposed to serve it directly but...
Park(ing) Day Dublin
Dublin’s first Park(ing) Day is happening this Friday 16th September from 10am to 4pm at various locations around the city. Park(ing) Day transforms on-street car parking spaces into public open spaces for one day. Car parking spaces around the city – from Arbour Hill to Portobello and right through the city centre – will be converted...
![[UPDATED] Sunday Rant: Dublin Bus putting up prices again!](http://dt106ers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/30_prepaid_Ticket-290x290.jpg "[UPDATED] Sunday Rant: Dublin Bus putting up prices again!")
[UPDATED] Sunday Rant: Dublin Bus putting up prices again!
I started my Easter Sunday off a wee little bit pissed of when i saw this gem in my google reader from the Dublin Bus General News Feed: New Prepaid Ticket Fares 2011 Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that the price of some discounted prepaid fares will be increased from Sunday 1st may 2011. Please...
Regional Airports in Ireland, no longer subsidized?
After reading an article in the Irish Times entitled “Regional airport cuts ‘should be reconsidered’” by Lorna Siggens. Given that the article was about the the subsidization of PSO (public service obligation) air routes within Ireland and how a late decision by the former Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey to cut costs by only subsidizing...
I’m baaahck – New Government, 2030 vision and more…
Well I’m back! It has been way too long since I wrote on this here blog, mainly down to my downright laziness and well hey sometimes you have to do some work in college! As Enda Kenny said: It’s a new dawn for Irish Politics Well so far that has meant we have a Minister...
Can we have this bicycle parking in Dublin?
I was on a recent inter rail trip around europe, something which i would highly recommend to anyone even remotely considering no matter what your age! But back to the point i witnessed some very interesting solutions to bicycle parking in cities, which i will show in some later short posts. I thought that Switzerland...
