Restore A Proper Peak Hour Train Service

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On November 29th 2009, Irish Rail without any public consultation radically changed the suburban rail timetable in Dublin. Despite Irish Rail denials this has reduced peak hour DART services by up to 33\%, leading to dangerous levels of overcrowding.

Northern line passengers must endure longer journeys as those trains must make extra stops to make up for the lack of DART services. This new timetable has led to significant delays as no sense is applied to the order of trains.

Despite over 1 billion euro in investment, massive fare hikes and parking charges, all claimed to fund an 'improved' service, the service is getting worse not better. It blatantly clear that Irish Rail management have failed utterly in their responsibility to meet the needs of the public.

We the petitioners demand

1. Immediate restoration of the 2008/9 rail timetable at peak hours
2. A 4 week period of public consultation to develop a new passenger friendly timetable, to resolve not only these issues but many others.

224 Signatures

  • Mark Gleeson
    • Your station
    • Dъn Laoghaire
    • Comments
    • Left standing since November 30th
  • Thomas Ralph
    • Your station
    • Sandymount
  • David
    • Your station
    • Shankill
    • Comments
    • Bring in Frequent trains at rush hour
  • Susan Gannon
    • Your station
    • Glenageary
  • Edmund Hobbs
  • Rhona Gannon
    • Your station
    • Glenageary
    • Comments
    • Overcrowded trains at peak times are a health and safety hazard.
  • Orla Donagher
  • Orla Buckleyl
  • Karen O'Brien
    • Your station
    • Bray to Grand Canal daily
    • Comments
    • disgrace!
  • Tom Murray
    • Your station
    • Clongriffin- whenever it opens
    • Comments
    • Only Malahide DART calling at Clongriffin- why not also Drogheda trains- gap of up to 2 hours between some trains.
  • Mo
    • Your station
    • Skerries
    • Comments
    • 5.13 from Pearse to Dundalk , an already crowded train is now stopping at Rush and Lusk, why ?
  • Bernard H. Allan
    • Your station
    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Imelda Nugent
    • Your station
    • Glenageary
    • Comments
    • Darts unacceptably overcrowded
  • Lorna Lafferty
    • Your station
    • Glenageary
    • Comments
    • I travel to Bray from Glenageary - the service is dreadful in the morning and I am upset re the new timetable!
  • kieran brennan
    • Your station
    • limerick junction
    • Comments
    • has irish rail decided to optimise cork dublin journey time to the dteriment of limerick and limerick junction passengers? Answer is yes
  • John Heavey
    • Your station
    • Dalkey
    • Comments
    • New timetable is a bad joke, improvement my arse
  • Michael Donoghue
    • Your station
    • Skerries
  • Denise Keville
    • Your station
    • Balbriggan
    • Comments
    • I've been getting the commuter train at 17:55 from Pearse station in the evening which now to my horror is serving Portmarnock and Malahide Stations despite their being a malahide dart 5 minutes before this train. What is the logic of this!! my train journey alone is taking an hour despite Irish rail stating that it should pull into Balbriggan at 18:46. The only station between Connolly and Donabate the commuter train should be stopping at is Howth Junction, if at all, isn't that the purpose of a junction. Otherwise Portmarnock and Malahide have a dart service. If Irish rail organised the timetables better people who use the northern line who work along the dart line can get off at Howth Junction and catch a dart travelling from either Malahide or Howth. Its whats done in other countries.
  • Pat O'Brien
    • Your station
    • Bray
    • Comments
    • Restore peak hour train frequency
  • MARY OBRIEN
    • Your station
    • BRAY
  • A.F.N. ROBINSON
    • Your station
    • GREYSTONES
    • Comments
    • NICE TO HAVE A NEW TIMETABLE AT STATIONS
  • Peter Hope
    • Your station
    • Skerries
  • Karl Murray
    • Your station
    • Bray
  • John Hennessy
    • Your station
    • Longford
    • Comments
    • Dreadful evening service Dublin to Longford getting steadily worse.
  • Ruth McMahon
    • Your station
    • Drogheda
  • Nicola Faulkner
    • Your station
    • Drogheda
    • Comments
    • Cyncial and contemptable actions by Irish Rail in changing the Northern timetable at a time when they're supposedly trying to make it up to customers for the 'inconvenience' (read better service) of the last few months. Why are Northern Commuters being punished with longers journeys to serve commuters already well served by DART. Instead of setting the bar higher to aim for better service and standards, Irish Rail instead lowers the bar to a slower service with less efficiency that it can't even live up to. Is Irish Rail actively trying to discourage use of the Northern Service by commuters who pay some of the highest fares to travel? I'm failing to see what agenda is at play here.
  • Brian Leahy
    • Your station
    • Sallins, Lansdowne Road
  • Paul Quinlan
    • Your station
    • Sydney Parade
  • F Leontis
    • Your station
    • balbriggan
    • Comments
    • new timetable is nonsensical
  • Anne Fitzsimons
    • Your station
    • Wicklow
    • Comments
    • Plesse rrun a train/Dart with a regular Time Table To and from Wicklow
  • Martin Duggan
    • Your station
    • Balbriggan
    • Comments
    • Absolutely unacceptable
  • Richard J. Clarke
    • Your station
    • Lansdowne Road
  • John Power
    • Your station
    • Laytown
  • John
    • Your station
    • Cahir
    • Comments
    • The service was bad enough with oly four trains per day. Now its worst with only 3. It is totally unusable as the times are rediculous. I think this is a prelude to the Lim Junc.-Waterford line closing altogether. The bus is way cheaper and there is a service every two hours. A bunch of wasters.
  • John McConville
    • Your station
    • Dundalk
    • Comments
    • Having endured the bus/train journies during the Malahide viaduct disruption I am very disappointed to be treated in this way by Iarnroid Eireann
  • David Hand
    • Your station
    • Dundlak/Dublin Connolly
  • Paul Flood
    • Your station
    • balbriggan
  • david yeates
    • Your station
    • coolmine
    • Comments
    • The elimination of the 08:45 service from clonsilla seems very silly as the new liffey bridge is about to open making the docklands much more accessible to commuters in the south docks area. No service in coolmine between 08:37 and 8:58 (usually later) is a very significant issue given that the 8:58 train is still 4 car.
  • B Doris
    • Comments
    • terrible and getting slower and worse
  • B Doris
    • Comments
    • terrible and getting slower and worse
  • Susan Buckley
    • Your station
    • Glenageary
    • Comments
    • The new timetable is derisory - service through Glenageary reduced to 5 Darts between 8am-9am, some with only 6 carraiges resulting in overcrowding. This gives no encouragement to people to use public transport and is a disgrace. The service is disimproving steadily despite all the investment in it.
  • Dwane Doyle
  • Graham Owens
  • Matthew Ovington
    • Your station
    • Donabate
    • Comments
    • The new timetable serves no-one. Fewer, slower, more-crowded trains. irish Rail need to think again.
  • Jez Harris
    • Your station
    • Donabate
    • Comments
    • These changes are insane - but hey! it's IE.
  • Oisin O hAlmhain
    • Your station
    • Heuston
  • Peter Larkin
    • Your station
    • Malahide
  • enda flaherty
    • Your station
    • Donabate
  • Kian Cleere
    • Your station
    • Malahide
    • Comments
    • Change timetable back
  • Graham Dorman
    • Your station
    • Donabate
    • Comments
    • Please be more considerate to those loyal customers who have been so inconvenienced in recent times. Disgraceful treatment.