The Port Tunnel is Deadly!
Roy November 16th, 2009
Dublin Port Tunnel
A passenger in my Taxi mentioned that he had been in another Taxi earlier that had a laminated notice on the dashboard proclaiming that the Taxi did not use the Port Tunnel, for health and safety reasons.
A conversation with the driver uncovered that he had been present during the Stardust disaster, was very aware of fire safety and has researched the fire prevention/safety precautions in the tunnel and had found them wanting, particularly with regular usage by trucks transporting highly flammable loads.
Regardless of his feelings on the matter is the driver behaving in a proper manner by refusing to take passengers on their preferred route?
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I would say he is wrong to refuse to use the tunnel. However, I’m sure intending passengers would accept his decision provided he took such alternative action as to find another taxi for them at no charge.
I’m sure DPT follow the relevant health and safety guidelines. If the regulations are inadequate they need review I guess.
Well Roy the notice is on a sheet of A4 paper plain to see on the dashboard.
So its not like a thing he will spring on you at the last minute.
That same guy has loads of issues with other things as well.
Sure don’t we all
Can he drive? Does he know where Leinster Rd is? Well then.
Had a shocking trip from Heuston home last night – I’d rather a person with issues than the incapable.
@laineyg
two of the major spots / roads of dublin city and your driver could,nt navigate between the two .
its like giving a person the job of computer programmer because they showed their E.C.D.L cert .
but the public wanted more taxis .and this being the banana republic of ireland “be careful what you ask for “
You need medical proof for exemption in using tunnel. If there IS a fire in the tunnel, forget about a rescue scenario. It will be a recovery scenario. Best practice in tunnel fires is let them burn out. Temperature in a tunnel fire is off the scale combined with the suction effect drawing air down the tunnel which acts like a bellows.
But don`t mind me, I`m a taxi driver.
@Rusty. I’m OK on Heuston but where’s this Leinster Road?
@stephen
well do you know the rathmines clock tower.
HANG YOU B###OX ON IT
.
while your up there look to your right .
you are now on leinster road .
@ rusty
you scam merchant wud you not ask the bird wat end of Leinster Road she wanted you could come in from Harolds cross and not rip her off going round the bleeding horse merrygoround .You seem to have an unnatural interest in the steos bollox why wud you want him to hang them on a clock unless you wanted to lick them
Funny, if someone asks to go to Leinster Road I’ll always go via Rathmines, whereas if someone said the Cross Bar (the old Leinster Inn) I’d go via Harolds Cross
@riolto
well just to answer you .
if i was coming in from heuston i would take the harolds cross route [because it has the only right turn from the canal ] apart from the turn up mountpleasent ave .
and as for that other tripe you said it dos,nt warrant an answer ……… grow up you muppet .
you stick to doing the drug runs with your buddies and ill be the professional taxi driver .
@Rusty. Easier said than done. Where is this Rathmines Clock Tower anyway.
From Heuston, Harold’s Cross is the correct route though I am closer to the Rathmines end. Over the bridge at the Brazen Head, right onto Nicholas St, and straight up. Even to go all the way to the Rathmines end, I’m not sure that I’d go any other way – it generally involves having to go around Kellys Corner from Sth Circ onto Richmond St adding a bit onto the journey. (e.g. crossing over at Kevin St to get to Sth Circ) or else going all the way into town to come around by Trinity, this route may not be longer but it does seem to take much much longer. And I was in a rush for X-Factor
@laineyg
where you live from heuston theres a number of routes .i could take you up watling street come out onto james street then it could be either marrowbone lane or francis street .either way is much of a muchness as its going around a square route . to get onto the canal or the SCR .
you would be better off asking the driver to take you the best route that suits you .before they move . but the one you said around by trinity seems abit out .
@rusty – Fair point on Francis St, I’ve gone that way occasionally, it’s more the going up Clanbrassil St via Harolds Cross rather than going via Rathmines Rd is what I was trying to get at (tho Nicholas St always *seems* the quickest – exits from some of the smaller sts onto James St or out of Francis St seem to take ages in traffic) is what makes sense to me – going to Rathmines seems out of the way.
I do generally tell them to go through Harolds Cross anyway
‘ rusty
are ya lost man wat you doin on the canal
@rialto
sorry man i should have known thats your turf like .
listen any chance of a bit of gear like .
wats the story bud on gettin a pair of nikes for the babby .
cheap like .
‘@Rusty
What a prick you are the steo only asked you the way to leinster road and you so rudely told him to hang his bollox on a clok.I told you the right way to go to leinster road so you dont rip off your custmer and you call me a drug dealing scummer .So far all we have lernd is dat the steo is lost, i am an honest taxi driver,and you are a fool
@rialto
that post was ment for STEPHEN and you stuck your nose in [id say it was,nt the only thing your nose has been in ] .
you retorted with an insult to myself .so take the result of said insult you muppet .let me give you a little education on “dublinize ”
i dont even think you know the meaning of the term “hang your bollox on it “.
i dont even think you are a irish driver because the term used is not an insult .
if anything its a “term of indearment “.
get with the programme MUPPET
The Verdict:
If I picked up from Heuston and the passenger said “Rathmines”, I’d take the turn after Jurys (Werburgh Street) head on down by the old Meath Hosp (Heytesbury Street) and do the Bleeding Horse Merrygoround.
If he/she said “Leinster Road, Rathmines” From Heuston I’d go the New Street , Clanbrasil, Harold X route.
Stephen is acting the Muppet, pretending not to know anywhere on the Southside and deserved to be told to hang his bollix on the Clock tower.
Rialto driver was right to ask why Rusty would be taking a right turn off the Canal , while heading from Heuston to Rathmines, but wrong to associate hanging the bollix with wanting to lick same and therefore probably deserved the drug dealing quip.
Case dismissed
@rialto
.hes let say a” bit challenged “. we taxi drivers have being helping him over the years get around .but lately we came to the conclusion that he needs to help himself .as theres too many taxi drivers out there atm needing assistance from family members and friends on the other end of a phone to navigate the city . so we are giving stephen some “tough love “[no that is,nt a punch up that results in sex ] .stephen understands 
as for poor stephen not knowing where the clock in rathmines was .
stephen has been a taxi driver for the last fiftheen years and gob bless him .he,s not “playing with the full deck” [i better explain that to you] no he has,nt got a deck of cards thats missing a few. although he does like the odd gamble
@ roy and rusty
In de part of ireland where i come from if somebody uses that poetic rude xpresson to hang your bollix we allways say why so you can lick them .I am sorry ifin i butted me nose inta yer business but this is a publik form .if you want to talk to the steo on his own ring him up on the mobile.Roy how ye can say its allrite to call a fello taxi driver a drug dealon scummer is deservrd. is hard to understand i wouldnt take a aspro and i dont smoke .I Mite have a bit of cider sometimes but drug dealer thats harsh man really harsh
I assume Rusty feels being called a bollix licker carries the same degree of intensity as being called a drug dealer, I’m sure you don’t believe he licks bollixes, no more than he believes you deal drugs, I myself might have picked a different term of abuse but it’s all relative
@ rialto
and what part of ireland would that be . did you not see the @stephen at the top of the post ?
@laineyg
did you ever try the route of going watling st ,james st , marrowbone lane , donore ave . parnell road . seems a more direct route hence me being on the canal .but you being the customer id go whichever way you decided .
@roy
this rialto is a wind up merchant banker .im finished with him now anyways .
@rialto
i think you might be just a bit CRAZY
GOTCHAA !
RUSTY
wat hav i ever dun on u man you think im a wind up merchant the only thing in my gaff you wind up is a klok .Roy the plural of bollox isnt bollixes it is bollisei from the latin bollistrum to possess two bolli did nun of yea go to Jambo christian brothers and have Mensa for latin (idiots)
Steady on gentlemen. Rialto is thick. Rusty’s brain is contaminated by iron oxides formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture and Roy doesn’t know which side of the Liffey Heuston Station is on.
@rusty Haven’t quite gone that way from Heuston but have gone similar route from work on St johns Road – up past the eircom building and on that way) and occasionally go that way to work if the traffic on clanbrassil is mental – getting out from some of those streets onto the main roads takes a while, and the right from Parnell Rd onto harolds cross can take ages. It doesn’t seem more direct to me, but mostly because it just always feels it takes longer, there are more lights and the roads are narrower so a bit more negotiation is required. It really doesn’t feel more direct it feels like going round the houses
Had a Yank in my taxi wanted to go to the “lahbrerrie in the Rah-t-minnies”. Where the fcuk is that ?
Fare play to ya Flybenite, it takes a man to admit he has the occasional yank in his taxi! AFAIK the library in Rathmines doesn’t supply the required Cliterature for such purposes….
Try Stillorgan! :-d
har har
yeah Gerry, what else is there to do if ye sit for hours on end at the rank ! Admit it, not much !