in case you wondered

back from an extended weekend away from Dublin, also mostly not paying attention to email.

role reversal

So far this week there have been three Luas collisions. Commentary from the political parties:
Opposition Party Person: People need to respect red lights at Luas junctions. (direct quote not given in article)
Incumbent Party Person: "It is not sufficient to say that road users need time to get used to sharing road space with the Luas. People need to be made more aware of the dangers and a simple remedy is to increase the number and the visibility of the warning signs."

Now, there are plenty warning signs. There are traffic lights; they are like other traffic lights, in that they indicate you should stop. That they are for the Luas rather than for other road users should have no bearing on whether people respect them or not - driving through a red light is a traffic offense regardless. For the cluefully challenged there are also HULKING GREAT TRACKS ON THE ROAD, and the trams have fairly distinctive horns. If you're still unaware of the tram after all that, you fully deserve to be rammed. Repeatedly.

It's nice to see that the knee-jerk statement of the opposite isn't solely confined to the parties not in power.