The aim behind the blog is to chronicle all the happens of spatial planning in Ireland from a students perspective in the hope of somehow helping people understand planning in Ireland even a small bit better!
Posts tagged "Transport"
Dublin Frequent Transport Map complete and up for sale!

Dublin Frequent Transport Map complete and up for sale!

Just a quick post for this glorious Saturday on which Leinster are going to kick arse! My Frequent Transport Map is now up for sale over on my portfolio website – cbroderick.me/dublin_transport_map The idea is you pay 5 euro and you get a digital copy of the map which you can print and do what...
Movie Thursday: StrongTowns at TedX

Movie Thursday: StrongTowns at TedX

This is a must watch for any spatial planner out there. We certainly really do need to take a long hard look at out urban environment and decide what are our priorities. So please take the few minutes to listen to what Chuck Marohn has to say, it’s well worth your time! This tweet below...
Links I liked 13/02/2012

Links I liked 13/02/2012

I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog over the last week, totally skimping on the resolution to write two posts a week minimum! However I have been a wee bit busy, compiling my complete Dublin Transport Map the work in progress shots can be seen over on the tumblrverse City Parks Following on from...
Leapcard has still got some living up to do!

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

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

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

[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...