This morning
Oscar Shandra-Penhaligon writes:
Ah the San Francisco-style gentrification of Dublin is complete – private tech buses [ buses used to ferry only tech company employees from work to home] appear for Microsoft…
FIGHT!
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This morning
Oscar Shandra-Penhaligon writes:
Ah the San Francisco-style gentrification of Dublin is complete – private tech buses [ buses used to ferry only tech company employees from work to home] appear for Microsoft…
FIGHT!
Oscar this has been going on for years, jealously shall get you nowhere.
+lol
they’ve been doing this at least 20 years diddums
That’s nothing. Over 30 years ago, we were bussed privately to the strawberry fields of rural Wexford to pick for a pound a bucket.
Ah stop will you? That brings back amazing childhood memories.
one for the punnet
two for me
guess who’s allergic now
That’s an absolute travesty
oh reminds me of that movie you recommended
Wilderpeople..loved it btw
haiku
It’s absolutely brilliant isn’t it? The kid in it is amazing.
Love his haikus. I’m no good at it.
tis
been around a while I think. Did O2 or Vodafone used to have them too?
Intel and HP had them out in Leixlip at least 10 years ago.
Still do have them, running 7 days a week.
And East point Business Park had this 20 years ago also from Dart Stations.
Cant wait for the electric scooters in the bike lanes posts.
This is absolutely nothing new. I used to get off at Sydney Parade every morning ~12 years ago and there was a PWC (I think; one of those anyway) bus that would collect workers to bring them up to a campus somewhere.
Spencer Dock. No need with the Red Luas anymore.
…I used to get off at Sydney Parade every morning
Very responsible of you!
Does that Ryan Air mickey still have the taxi licence?
yes he does, with a taxi driver doing the driving
A retired Gaurd with a SPSV licence curently holding that position..
Has somebody just started working in Sandyford for the first time?
I wear Penhaligon’s perfume.
That is all I have to say on this matter.
Ah, the class and exclusive luxury of a twenty-year-old ex-Dublin Bus painted black.
I’ll bet it still smells of fag-ends and diesel.
Like yerself, I’ll bet, my aul sausidge.
Only when there’s nothing else to drink.
All the wide boys of Microsoft acting up at the back of the bus spitting on the necks of the nerds.
They’re all nerds, to be fair.
Are these buses allowed use bus lanes.
Yes, private buses are allowed use the bus lane.
Private buses aren’t anything new.
I didn’t know private buses could legally use the lane
Much the same way as taxis can.
I don’t see what Oscars problem is?
Might be concerned about BIK
he still uses a nokia, using one of those apple things from san Francisco would be against all he believes in.
EMC in Cork have had this for years as well
Like that bus that nutter hijacked on The Young Offenders.
I love this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdLyA6G-cvA
ESB have one too.
Would you prefer they were clogging up public transport?
Would you prefer sixty or seventy private cars on the road instead?
Unlike San Francisco, they aren’t being used to replace Public Transport, but rather to supplement it – in SF the public transport infrastructure is practically non-existent, so you get coaches running from the residential parts of the city down into the bay area to drop employees off at their Silicon Valley campuses. It’s a essentially a door-to-door service.
In Dublin, we have a mediocre public transport network, but it’s way better than the Bay Area’s, so these buses are mostly used to transfer employees from public transport nodes (like a DART station or Luas stop) to the offices. They’re generally not anywhere near the city centre, and they aren’t causing any problems.
It’s also worth noting that the reason San Francisco residents seem to hate the buses so much isn’t because of their existence, but because they signal a significant gentrification of their areas (and I suppose you’ll find that most of the protestors are themselves people who gentrified those areas at some point in the past, because that’s America for you). The buses by themselves are a perfectly good idea as they keep employees from having to purchase cars and drive them to work.
mediocre is kind
Sure as long as you’re on the coast you’re grand
Personally I’ve never been further west than Smithfield and I’m perfectly happy
I think the ire is more because they are bussing them to far out areas like Cupertino when they should be trying to encourage their workforce to live near their campuses instead of an already over crowded and over priced city. These tech workers contribute very little to the city during the week as they work long hours in the valley.
Even then, it’s still a massive fallicy to attack the *workers*, because they aren’t the ones preventing new builds in the valley. I’d imagine most of them would love to live near their campuses, I’d imagine their companies would enjoy that too because they’d work longer hours, but the valley is just a sea of single-family homes that don’t even reach the grand density levels of Dublin’s 2 floor semi-d sprawl.
I’m all in favour of segregating the effers. All the more fun when we storm their bastions – and destroy them!
person with double barreled name complains of gentrification
We don’t have enough public transportation and infrastructure is gridlocked at peak times – this seems an eminently sensible option but no, cue the predictable outrage – move along nothing to see here
Burn the bus
these buses are absolutely freezing in the wintertime. grim city. even an overpacked Luas is nicer.