Dermot Hanney
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Dermot Hanney
@hanneydp.bsky.social
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Just 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.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Contract 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…
Contract 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 place through a legal application by Spanish train manufacturer CAF, which lost out in the bidding process for the new trains to Swiss manufacturer Stadler. …
irishcycle.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Government 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…
Government 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 Dublin rail network, likely cost the State more when the trains are ordered, and will delay the expansion of other train services, it has been claimed. Earlier this year, the Department of Transport claimed the delay in ordering the trains -- replacements for the existing 41-year-old Dart carriages, which are suffering daily breakdowns and affecting local and intercity services -- was due to a review of the National Development Plan.
irishcycle.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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🗺️ Who wanted PTAL but for the whole country? Well, here you are. labs.podaris.com/dft-connecti...
DfT Connectivity Metric Viewer by Podaris
Explore how connected your area really is – a UK-wide map built using the Department for Transport's new Connectivity Metric.
labs.podaris.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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
November 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Anyone know if there’s a hack to find out when the new DLR train is running today?
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Expansion 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…
Expansion 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 today. The plan includes using new battery-electric trains to serve towns between Malahide, where overhead electrification currently ends, and Drogheda.
irishcycle.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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We'd be alright if it weren't for the customers.
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Good morning Cardiff 🌅
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Had a fun couple of hours out of the office today.

#HammersmithBridge
October 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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And reposted for the lunchtime crowd

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We're pleased to report on a project that Mark has been working on with Robert Weetman for Manchester City Council.

This post sets out some ideas that developed from this work and which will hopefully start to explain what "pedestrian-friendly" is, and how we can design better side road junctions.
What makes side road junctions pedestrian-friendly?
ForewordThis post has a companion written by Robert Weetman. We have been working collaboratively on something which we think needs to be more widely known, but we also thought it might be fun and …
cityinfinity.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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...
Budget 2026: Public transport fare hikes or service cuts on cards
Government may raid National Development Plan funds to plug €250m gap in 'public service obligation' transport
www.irishexaminer.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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.
September 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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“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.”
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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/...
Scenic but fragile: Irish Rail takes action to shield east coast line from rising sea
The Irish east coast is crumbling, slowly — but surely. To protect the coastal Dublin–Rosslare railway in face of climate change: the rising sea, increased erosion and stronger…
www.railtech.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I appreciate maybe the state does not have the eye for this, or even does admin work need to be in such impressive buildings, but it still brings into question are we giving away state assets for a song when the next buyer wants to create a luxury hotel using former government building
September 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Good service on all Limes.

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September 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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The Dutch *basic* standard is 2.3m with-flow and 4m for two-way tracks. C3 is mainly less than 4m and often as narrow as 3m.

The kerbs on both sides are just not forgiving, so there's probably 300mm or 400mm to come off that in terms of effective (useable width).

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September 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Podcasts really are becoming the wild west of advertising. On what I’d class as pretty straight down the middle pods I’ve heard ads for oil, nuclear, how pharmaceutical companies can lead hospitals on medicine, mouth tobacco etc

Feels like all the hallmarks of a Tufton Street project
September 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Burger King doing that here’s a price of a meal deal but actually if you want a drink and fries we’ll charge you extra is a bit cheeky to say the least. I think I’ll avoid going forward.
August 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM