Yesterday.
Andy Sheridan writes:
Planning Permission is generally required for advertising & is usually subject to approval by the County Council.
Is that the same for advertising on the Luas?
I didn’t sign up for this commercial visual assault on publicly owned infrastructure…
FIGHT!
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Think of it as a subsidy of your fare. at least it’s only milk and not fetuses.
Aye, it’s ugly as all get out but if helps keep fares down then where’s the harm? Plus, milk IS super!
Getting the drug dealers working between Fatima and the Fours Courts to pay their fare would also help to keep the fares down for the rest of us.
@dhaughton: *ahem* Quite.
Taxing the purchase of clean and safe narcotics would also subsidise the Luas, demonstrably reduce petty crime and improve the quality of life for the rest of us in the city.
@Starina: parroted you by accident there, sorry.
The milk is super, you’re super, the long weekend is super, we’re ALL super, Neilo.
@GhostOfStarina: I agree. Take tomorrow and Monday off as a reward for your excellent attitude.
Advertising on the Luas like this is not new. I suspect Andy is lactose intolerant or an undercover operative for the Soy milk people.
They did a cool one a few years ago for Batman.The Nolan one not the shite one.
is that Andy Sheridan the photographer Andy Sheridan?
been a while since we’ve had any of his excellent stuff… is it time, bodger?
have you never noticed the all-over wrap around advertising on Dublin Bus?
No. It’s not the same as posters requiring DCC approval.
Luas are allowed wraps. And the money coming in help keep your fares down, in fairness… and I just say Starina’s comment, so I too am repeating.
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I’ll get off next stop…. with me coat.
Clampers I know you’re a reasonable lad but would you cop on with this keeping the fares down nonsense…
The irish way with public transport and the privitised way is to squeeze every last penny out of the public consumer where possible through slight incremental increases year on year to the fares.
If there was a real economic plan it would 1e for a basic journey on the bus and 2e for a longer journey or return or whatever…
and not the 1e 95.2345c or whatever ridiculous system they have pushed on us for years.
How many times do they announce the fares are free today or they trains or buses are running an extra 2-4 hours for special occasions.
It’s managed only like a business and not a public service.
:-J
Reminds me of the Banksy quote..People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fupp that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
– Banksy
It’s a milk ad on the luas, not a 1984 style dystopian plot.
But they’re reaching into our minds and our children’s minds and forcing us to like milk.
True dystopia.
+1 :)
The greatest trick the 1984 style dystopian plot pulled was convincing the world it didn’t exist.
I vote that the tram service takes an ad out on milk cartons to keep it all fair
Hey I rather like that
So what Joseph is saying is we shouldn’t feel guilty about stickering over the ads with local art, since the whole lot will just be peeled off soon anyway :D
THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM! etc
wait. no. the medium is the message. oh heck.
I agree and after this I look forward to when the graffitti artists will get their cans at the trams too.
Spray it all away………
:-J
Facebook told them to do it
or maybe the Russians
There are udder battles worth fighting Andy and this one will just turn sour.
Let these acceptable marketing messages go past your eyes.
exactly moooove along now, nothing to see here.
no spud this battle is important. the steaks are high..
i understand saying it helps keep the fares down… but they go up annually without fail, sometimes twice a year [more thinking Dublin bus]
Well, the lads working hard with the go-forward and go-backward stick need their pay rises……..
But but but you mean it’s not a giant rail based milkman? But it says milk on it
Milk is for the babies of a very different animal. Keeps them docile.
You feel quite different without it, in a most pleasant way.
Good (non-soy) alternatives if you must, like oat milk.
So you have to sign up now to travel on the Luas? This is the type of bureaucratic madness that has this country ruined.
This advertising is absolutely ridiculous. The dairy industry sales are plummeting due to much better plant alternatives being introduced over the years. They are desperately fighting back. I’ve been in many other cities and have been on their trams, they are very appealing to the eye and are not ruined by stupid commercials that go against peoples beliefs. Milk is for babies, yes that’s right, nature’s formula for babies. It is absolutely unnessary now for us to be forcefully impregnating cows, killing male calves, seperating calves from their mothers and over milking cows till their milk production drops and then they are killed. Milk is addictive, it contains casomorphins, look it up, its a weak form of morphine that bonds a calf with their mother but this casomorphin is concentrated in cheese hence why it is so addictive. The countries with the highest dairy consumption are the countries with the highest rate of hip fractures and bone deterioration, as milk and dairy becomes acidic as its being broken down, phosphate is used to neutralise this acidity and this is leeched from our bones. I urge everyone to look into the dairy industry as I did over 2 years ago. Let’s keep our city looking beautiful, instead of turning everything into an ad.
“forcefully impregnating cows”
#MooToo
Ye the overpopulation of cows are a serious problem to the planet, methane, deforestation, water etc.
I don’t drink milk much at all but am quite partial to a bit of nice cheese now and again or the odd Ice cream.
What’s your best recommendation for replacing milk for cereal and tea or even ice cream etc.. and getting the supposed calcium benifits they’ve been banging on about for years.. which I never really believed were true either.
:-J
goats milk is da bomb
smooth silky tasty
smaller molecules and easily digested by humans
There have been ads on public transport since dublin bus was set up and probably even before then. Nothing new here at all.
At least it’s easy to see. Grey was a terrible choice for a predominantly grey city.
I love milk. King of drinks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FM3Em7FIOc
“I didn’t sign up for this commercial visual assault on publicly owned infrastructure…”
Seriously. I’m loathe to use the term but this lad is a serious snowflake.
FFS, has he nothing better to be getting annoyed about.
AoAs on public transport have been a thing here for 30 years. It isn’t something new and worthy of comment.
Advertising on public transport reduces the fares and/or subsidy required.
Yeah but great for an aul rant. Which is what we want.
Admittedly, I’m a bit late to the party.
Luas is owned by transdev, a private French transport company……