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...
Presenting your strategy analysis, TU Delft style
I was reading a presentation today by Robert Coco, Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft, on presentation tools for research in which he linked to a great video prepared by students as part of an urban mobility module within the school. The group took a very visual approach by producing a video instead of...
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...
Labour calls for retention of €8m funds for rural transport programme
THE LABOUR Party has called for the retention of some €8 million in funding for the rural transport programme, which is “critical” for tens of thousands of people living in the countryside. Labour’s transport spokesman Tommy Broughan yesterday published a plan outlining how the service could be maintained and protected. The six-point plan, Giving Rural...
Gormley opposes decision on Dublin ‘bus gate’
MARY MINIHAN MINISTER FOR the Environment and Green Party leader John Gormley has described the decision to temporarily scale back the College Green “bus gate” as “a retrograde step”. Dublin city councillors voted on Monday night to lift the ban on private cars passing through the area during peak evening hours from November 18th to...
Shannon rail bridge nears completion
THE FINAL stage of work to replace one of Iarnród Éireann’s three railway crossings of the Shannon, a bridge near Lough Tap, between Dromod and Carrick-on-Shannon in Co Leitrim, gets under way today. Over the next 12 days the line will be closed as the new steel bridge and concrete deck is lifted into place...
A time for building bridges
Only noticed this in saturdays irish times today. This article was accompanied with images of the Viaduc de Millau, which I had the pleasure of crossing the year it opened to the public. A truly intriguing experience driving above the clouds in the early morning! You won’t experience anything like it! HERITAGE & HABITAT: NOW THAT “development” is...
Dublin Bikes – Over 6000 sign up!
Got my Dublin Bikes subscription card today, can’t wait to have a go on one of these bikes! This is the card you get below, the same size as your credit card: According to Dublin Bikes and the City Council the scheme is proving even more populour then they ever imagined it would be. I...
Samuel Beckett Bridge Dublin
I was in town there a while back down by Macken Street and I must say the new Samuel Beckett Bridge is pretty awesome looking! just check out the picture below and decide for yourself. The first thing to strike me about the bridge is its size. Interestingly its not that visible from O’Connell Bridge but...
