Athy isn’t exactly a commute, it’s a day trip trek.
> The 75km journey, that would usually take the politician around 90 minutes along the M9, M7 and N7, doubled in time due to a breakdown causing congestion on the M50.
Also sounds like someone should have taken the train rather than contribute to the road-based gridlock.
Isn’t there a train out that direction?
Working from home will eventually be norm, middle management is dragging the country backwards because they know they aren’t needed if there isnt an office.
For businesses who are adament staff are to attend an office, then Working hubs in towns around the country, subsidised by government as an incentive, is the only way forward.
I used to work split shifts. Early morning to afternoon and back again in the evening until about 10pm
I recently changed working hours which has resulted in me finishing at 3:30pmI
It is genuinely like the Hunger Games trying to get home. Often buses will fly by because they are full, there’s cancelled buses, which means the next one is going to be full. The traffic and congestion is unbelievable.
This is the quality of life stuff we should be solving. Commuting to work like this really isn’t fair
Google tells me he could have taken a train from Athy -> Sallins, and then switched onto the commuter train into Pearse with a 7 minute walk into Leinster House. 6:41 AM – 8:26 AM (1 hr 45 min)
There’s huges swats of the country that aren’t so lucky to have such an option available, and those people should rightly ask for more – but this TD has basically a door to door option available to him and complaing about ‘traffic’ without recongising he is literally the perfect example of someone who could and should be using the actually available alternatives, and his choice to not use public transport is making himself ‘traffic’ making it worse for all the people who actually have few other good options and are forced into the car.
4-6 hours of unpaid work a day which is terrible for your health and costs you alot of money. If I was them Id be changing job.
Even going from a 1 hour commute to a 10 minute one made my life infinitly better
Ireland is riddled with the professional managerial class.
I have a housemate who does this. Out of the house at 5:30am, not back home til gone 9pm. It must be absolutely soul destroying.
I’ve requested WFH twice a week (currently 1 day a week). I get more done at home because I am pulled to do other shit, and counsel others about stupid shit that the management don’t want to deal with “Biscuits will do that”. The get the Spanish Inquistion everyday.
I told them I am working from home two days this week as I am so far behind after covering two people last week with the added bonus or the server going down.
Imagine every piece of infrastructure we have is delayed due to “planning”, and yet we still end up with this chaos. Do we really need all these delays?
It’s all by design, everything in this country is designed to suck all joy and happiness out of your body to the point you will live start enjoying this endless misery.
A major issue is the generations of people who’ve never worked and have no plans to work being awarded prime social housing in the center of the city. That housing should be rented out to people who will work and will benefit the city.
If i ever had to work in dublin, i probely would try live in a commuter town that has train stations going to Dublin, in the next half decade, Darts will begin running to those places. but ofc it is not possible for everyone and it is expensive, which is why hybrid working is on the rise
And they continue to force more people back into the office
I lived in Dublin and came to realise the choices I had made that led me to living in this situation were poor ones. If where I’ve chosen to build my life/work means I have to sit in traffic for 4-6 hours a day, I clearly made decisions based on bad judgment. Took me a while and had to go back and make changes/sacrifices and now i can live without being in any traffic.
But if you’re going after something that tons of others are too, and you all need to live/work within the same region. A region that also draws people for tourism,shopping,nightlife etc. then you’re going to be competing with millions of others for space, and this is something everyone should weigh up before choosing that path. If you don’t want to sit in traffic like I don’t, choose a lifestyle that doesn’t require that
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Athy isn’t exactly a commute, it’s a day trip trek.
> The 75km journey, that would usually take the politician around 90 minutes along the M9, M7 and N7, doubled in time due to a breakdown causing congestion on the M50.
Also sounds like someone should have taken the train rather than contribute to the road-based gridlock.
Isn’t there a train out that direction?
Working from home will eventually be norm, middle management is dragging the country backwards because they know they aren’t needed if there isnt an office.
For businesses who are adament staff are to attend an office, then Working hubs in towns around the country, subsidised by government as an incentive, is the only way forward.
I used to work split shifts. Early morning to afternoon and back again in the evening until about 10pm
I recently changed working hours which has resulted in me finishing at 3:30pmI
It is genuinely like the Hunger Games trying to get home. Often buses will fly by because they are full, there’s cancelled buses, which means the next one is going to be full. The traffic and congestion is unbelievable.
This is the quality of life stuff we should be solving. Commuting to work like this really isn’t fair
Google tells me he could have taken a train from Athy -> Sallins, and then switched onto the commuter train into Pearse with a 7 minute walk into Leinster House. 6:41 AM – 8:26 AM (1 hr 45 min)
There’s huges swats of the country that aren’t so lucky to have such an option available, and those people should rightly ask for more – but this TD has basically a door to door option available to him and complaing about ‘traffic’ without recongising he is literally the perfect example of someone who could and should be using the actually available alternatives, and his choice to not use public transport is making himself ‘traffic’ making it worse for all the people who actually have few other good options and are forced into the car.
4-6 hours of unpaid work a day which is terrible for your health and costs you alot of money. If I was them Id be changing job.
Even going from a 1 hour commute to a 10 minute one made my life infinitly better
Ireland is riddled with the professional managerial class.
I have a housemate who does this. Out of the house at 5:30am, not back home til gone 9pm. It must be absolutely soul destroying.
I’ve requested WFH twice a week (currently 1 day a week). I get more done at home because I am pulled to do other shit, and counsel others about stupid shit that the management don’t want to deal with “Biscuits will do that”. The get the Spanish Inquistion everyday.
I told them I am working from home two days this week as I am so far behind after covering two people last week with the added bonus or the server going down.
Imagine every piece of infrastructure we have is delayed due to “planning”, and yet we still end up with this chaos. Do we really need all these delays?
It’s all by design, everything in this country is designed to suck all joy and happiness out of your body to the point you will live start enjoying this endless misery.
A major issue is the generations of people who’ve never worked and have no plans to work being awarded prime social housing in the center of the city. That housing should be rented out to people who will work and will benefit the city.
If i ever had to work in dublin, i probely would try live in a commuter town that has train stations going to Dublin, in the next half decade, Darts will begin running to those places. but ofc it is not possible for everyone and it is expensive, which is why hybrid working is on the rise
And they continue to force more people back into the office
I lived in Dublin and came to realise the choices I had made that led me to living in this situation were poor ones. If where I’ve chosen to build my life/work means I have to sit in traffic for 4-6 hours a day, I clearly made decisions based on bad judgment. Took me a while and had to go back and make changes/sacrifices and now i can live without being in any traffic.
But if you’re going after something that tons of others are too, and you all need to live/work within the same region. A region that also draws people for tourism,shopping,nightlife etc. then you’re going to be competing with millions of others for space, and this is something everyone should weigh up before choosing that path. If you don’t want to sit in traffic like I don’t, choose a lifestyle that doesn’t require that