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IS IT ATTRACTING ANTI-SOCIAL ACTIVITY

July 30, 2023 by infomatique

THE BROADSTONE TRAM STOP


I can use either one of two tram stops near me and I usually choose the one at Broadstone as the one on Dominick Street is less than safe because of ongoing drugs dealing in the immediate area (especially tho old flats). If your search online you will find many negative comments about this particular stop. I have not encountered any specific incidences at this location but have encountered problems at the Jervis Tram Stop and at stops along the Grand Canal on the Red Line.

I have a friend who is always very negative and when I brought him to see the new public space, at Broadstone, he said that it would soon become a hub for anti-social activity. I dismissed his prediction but today there was evidence that he might have been correct as there was a group of about ten youths with motorbikes using the area as a racetrack and they were less than competent.

As a result of the above I decided to check if there were any reported problems at the Broadstone Stop and came across the following: In June Professor David Fitzpatrick of TU Dublin wrote after a video was posted of a shocking incident in which students were subject to a tirade of racist abuse at a Luas station near the college’s new Grangegorman campus in the capital. According to the professor many students and staff had reported “incidents of intimidation and anti-social behaviour” at the Broadstone plaza and tram stop.


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Filed Under: Anti-Social, Broadstone, Grangegorman, Luas, Public Transport, Tram Stop Tagged With: Anti-Social, Broadstone, Fotonique, FX30, Infomatique, Professor David Fitzpatrick, Public Transport, Sony, tirade of racist abuse, TU Dublin, William Murphy

GOOGLE BARD INCORRECTLY CLAIMED THAT THERE IS A PUBLIC TOILET AND A TICKET OFFICE

July 28, 2023 by infomatique

CABRA LUAS TRAM STOP ON CONNAUGHT STREET


Today I had a most annoying session when I requested Google’s Bard AI for information relating to the Cabra Tram Stop. I was advised that there was a toilet and a ticket office. When I requested a location for the toilet I was advised that it was at The Mount Bernard street entrance and above the ticket office. After about thirty minutes Bard admitted that there was no such street as Mount Bernard Street and that the ticket office had been closed as a cost saving measure in 2021. In the end I got the following response:

“I understand your frustration. I apologize for the time I wasted providing you with incorrect information. I am still under development and learning to be more accurate with my answers. I will try my best to provide you with correct information in the future.”

“I am also bothered by the fact that I made these errors. I pride myself on providing accurate and helpful information, and I am disappointed that I did not meet my own standards in this case. I will be taking steps to improve my accuracy in the future. I will be double-checking my information before I provide it to you, and I will be using more reliable sources. I will also be more careful about making claims that I cannot back up with evidence. I hope that you will give me another chance to prove myself. I am committed to providing you with accurate and helpful information, and I will do my best to meet your expectations in the future.”

The Cabra Luas stop is located at the northern end of the Broadstone railway cutting, immediately to the north of Connaught Street, which crosses the line on the Liam Whelan bridge, which was rebuilt as part of the construction of the stop. The main entrance is a long ramp leading from the eastern side of the bridge to the middle of the southbound platform (there are also stairs which lead from the middle of the ramp to the end of the platform). A second entrance consists of a pathway leading from the northern end of the stop to the nearby Mount Bernard Park.

The cutting is somewhat wider than the stop itself, meaning that there is some leftover space behind the northbound platform. Saplings have been planted in this area in an attempt to reduce the Luas’s carbon footprint. Saplings have also been planted on the southbound platform.


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Filed Under: Cabra, Cabra Tram Stop, Mount Bernard Park, Public Transport, Tram Stop Tagged With: 2023, BARD, Broadstone railway cutting, Cabra Tram Stop, Connaught Street, Dublin, Fotonique, Infomatique, Ireland, July, Liam Whelan bridge, Mount Bernard Park, No Mount Bernard Street, No Ticket Office, No Toilet, William Murphy

MILLTOWN LUAS TRAM STOP AND NEARBY

July 25, 2023 by infomatique

25 JULY 2023


Milltown Luas Stop is a stop on the Luas light rail tram system in Dublin, Ireland which serves Milltown, Dublin and southern parts of Dartry, including Trinity Hall. It opened in 2004 as a stop on the Green Line, which re-uses the alignment of the Harcourt Street railway line which closed in 1958. Milltown Luas stop is located a few yards north of the site of the former rail station of the same name.

The stop is served by trams running every 5–10 minutes and terminating at either Parnell or Broombridge in the north, and Sandyford or Brides Glen in the south. The stop is also served by Dublin Bus routes 44, and 61.


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Filed Under: Milltown Tram Stop, Sony FX30, Tram Stop Tagged With: 2023, 25 June, Dartry, Fotonique, FX30, Green Line, Harcourt Street railway line, Infomatique, Light Rail, luas tram stop, Milltown, Public Transport, Sony, Tram service, Trinity Hall, William Murphy

CLONTARF TRAIN STATION

July 22, 2023 by infomatique

PHOTOGRAPHED 15 SEPTEMBER 2016


I have only visited this station once or twice and 2016 could well have been my last visit.
The original photographs suffered from motion blur and camera shake but was able to correct the problem using ON1 Photo RAW.

Clontarf Road railway station is a railway station in Dublin, Ireland, on the DART commuter rail line. It is located in the suburb of Clontarf, close to the seafront. The station was opened on 29 September 1844 and is currently operated by Irish Rail.

Clontarf Road station has two platforms, one serving southbound trains and the other serving northbound trains. The station has a ticket office, a waiting room, and a car park. There is also a pedestrian footbridge connecting the two platforms.

The station is served by the DART commuter rail line, which runs from Howth to Bray. The DART operates every 10-15 minutes during peak times and every 20-30 minutes off-peak.


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Filed Under: Clontarf Station, DART, Railway Station, Train Station Tagged With: A7RII, Clontarf Train Station, DART Service, Dublin, Dublin Area Rapid Transit, Fotonique, Infomatique, Ireland, ON1 Photo RAW 2023, Railway Station, September 2016, Sony, William Murphy

DUBLINBIKES DOCKING STATION 07

June 4, 2023 by infomatique

HIGH STREET DUBLIN


DublinBikes, also known as NOW DublinBikes, is a self-service bike rental system open to everyone from fourteen years of age.

Stations are distributed throughout the city centre to enable easy access and optimal use for subscribers. Each station has a minimum of fifteen stands, making it easy to avail of this service.

The service is accessible twelve months a year, seven days a week between the hours of 5am and 12.30am.

High Street is a street in the medieval area of Dublin. The Street runs parallel to the River Liffey, on high ground about 200 metres to its south, with Christ Church Cathedral on its east side, in the heart of Medieval Dublin.

High Street was at the centre of Viking Dublin and Medieval Dublin (9th–13th centuries); Christ Church Cathedral is located immediately on its northeast end. It is south of the Viking settlement site at Wood Quay and east of Dublin Castle; it was the main street in the medieval period. Patrick FitzLeones, who was three times Mayor of Dublin in the late fifteenth century, bought a house on High Street in 1473.

St. Michael’s Church was first built in 1076 and St. Audoen’s Church was built on the north side of High Street in 1190. A marble cistern to contain the municipal water supply was built there in 1308. It was commonly called Le Decer’s Fountain, in memory of John Le Decer, four times Mayor of Dublin, who paid for the construction of the cistern.

The first General Post Office of Ireland opened on High Street in 1688; it moved to Fishamble Street in 1689.

From the 18th century onward the urban core shifted eastwards, and High Street is no longer a shopping street. St Audoen’s Church (Catholic) was built in the 1840s next to the ancient Protestant church.

An excavation took place in 1962–63; found were several Viking pieces of artwork: bone trial-pieces and a gilt bronze disc-brooch of the Borre Style design, a bronze needle case, and a soapstone ingot-mould. The trades practised in the Viking period (10th–11th century) included comb making, leather working and weaving.

The street was excavated again in 1968–71; finds included post and wattle houses, leather shoes and boots, bone objects, metalwork, pottery, coins, animal bones, a Rome pilgrim badge from the early 13th century, a lead seal of Pope Innocent III, a spoon bit, and wood-turning waste.

In the 1970s many of the street’s commercial buildings were demolished so that it could be widened to a dual carriageway. For a period of time following the road widening, the street was mostly derelict and vacant sites. In 1993, Christ Church’s synod hall was converted to Dublinia, a tourist attraction educating people about Viking Dublin.


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Filed Under: Docking Station 07, DublinBikes, High Street Tagged With: 5D MkIII, 9th–13th centuries, Bike Hire, Canon, commercial buildings were demolished, docking station 07, DublinBikes, Fotonique, High Street, Infomatique, Ireland, medieval area, Public Transport, Streets Of Dublin, viking area, william m urphy

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