Dermot Hanney
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- Reposted by Dermot HanneyAll bicycles included in draft plan for mandatory helmets and high-vis, Department confirms irishcycle.com/2026/02/04/a...
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyHi all campaigners and councillors here: I'm looking at writing an article on what you'd recommend for any person or group who's frustrated with progress on X, Y or Z cycle route or pedestrian crossing, etc, and what would you recommend to them? If you want to contribute, can you please...
- New wayfinding signage in Canary Wharf
- Anyone able to explain what is going on here? How can one automate a post box?
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyRevamped website for @transportfornewhomes.org.uk - lots of research showing the gap between the good words in planning policy on sustainable transport and then what actually built on the ground: www.transportfornewhomes.org.uk
- The issue for UK is not it shouldn’t build high speed rail, but why does high spreed rail cost so much to build? As someone raised in the comments here, the cost per passenger km is not so great as this will be a high use route so maybe we are in many ways simply miscalculating these schemes costs
- This is *before* the new budget increases, which could take the total cost over £100bn www.ft.com/content/3f73...
- Just a simple comparison (these numbers are moving all the time so no absolutes here)… But certainly in original plans, HS2 aiming for 18 passenger trains per HOUR, whereas from what I can tell from online the Turin Lyon tunnel is only planning for 22 passenger trains per DAY.
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyThis is *before* the new budget increases, which could take the total cost over £100bn www.ft.com/content/3f73...
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyI mean, it’s absurdly high, but it will actually run a lot of traffic and so won’t be the highest cost per seat mile.
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyJudge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…
- @secondcaptains.bsky.social @kenearly.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social @dionfanning.bsky.social player that fell off cliff example after major transfer in Premier League after looking world class example missed = Andriy Shevchenko at Chelsea. Never got off the ground after looking amazing at AC
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyRoads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! In my latest blog post, I go back to the future in East Oxford. therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/12/back...
- This is where blind reliance on cars and ignorance of decarbonisation gets you youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyJust as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society: Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyContract for Belfast-Dublin trains expected to be signed within days after High Court clears tracks A legal block on Irish Rail and Northern Ireland Railways signing a contract for new Dublin-Belfast trains has been lifted by the Commercial Court, a division of the High Court. The block was put in…
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyGovernment goes cold on ordering new trains, so 41-year-old Dart fleet — breaking down daily — to keep causing issues for rail network for years A conservative approach by the Department of Transport to ordering replacement Dart train carriages will lead to increased reliability issues on the…
- @secondcaptains.bsky.social suddenly this makes much more sense youtube.com/shorts/3_vRu...
- Reposted by Dermot Hanney🗺️ Who wanted PTAL but for the whole country? Well, here you are. labs.podaris.com/dft-connecti...
- Westfield Avenue new cycle track coming along nicely Intrigued if blue sections are part of guidance or designer just going on a solo run Really like the SUDS / planting arrangement. More to come soon further west
- Anyone know if there’s a hack to find out when the new DLR train is running today?
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyExpansion of Dart to Drogheda using battery-electric trains delayed until 2027 A plan to operate a more frequent train service under the Dart brand on Dublin's northern line has been delayed by a year until 2027 due to a supply issue with the battery units for the new trains, Irish Rail confirmed…
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyWe'd be alright if it weren't for the customers.
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyGood morning Cardiff 🌅
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyHad a fun couple of hours out of the office today. #HammersmithBridge
- Reposted by Dermot HanneyAnd reposted for the lunchtime crowd bsky.app/profile/city...
- This article is written in such a way that’s it’s a revelation to the Irish Government that public transport services need a subsidy to run at any way a decent level of service. What are they on about about a “funding gap”? Every year there’s been “funding gap” www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
- Public transport revenue never covers costs. Gov has to step in to “fund the gap” between revenue and costs. It’s been ever thus. Now Gov may no longer be willing to fund that gap to same level. But that’s not responsible budgeting, it’s a political decision. Irish Government should own it as such.
- “In recent years, the costs of delivering public transport services have been impacted by a number of issues, including … expansion of services in line with Government policy, and various fare initiatives.” What? They’re complaining their own policies cost money to implement.
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View full threadUltimately Irish Gov have been told to rein spending in. But it seems in their wisdom they have taken aim on cuts on a scheme proven to be value for money by dint of record passenger numbers, with a funding envelope always known and a revelation to no one. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
- Just a few examples from this weekend on how climate change is impacting us more and more using the medium of football to illustrate it. These are clear examples of climate impact costing society. But yet people will try convince you we are wasting money on spending on infrastructure resilience.
- Reposted by Dermot Hanney“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing,” as the from SF author Joanna Maciejewska memorably put it, “not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
- Spend now to save money later and secure economic benefits into the future. We need to avoid being seduced by the idea spending more on climate resilience is in any way money wasted and a cost we could do without www.railtech.com/all/2025/09/...
