Mr. Padraic Moran:

Irish Rail operates three types of DART train. There is the old German trains which they replaced with the new Japanese fleet. I do not know the exact numbers but in the wheelchair bay on the DART, there is an emergency button located down low where I would go with my wheelchair. That is if I can get into it because if someone puts a bike in the wheelchair bay and does not move it, I end up having to sit in the middle of the aisle blocking the entire DART. The ones in the wheelchair bays are never armed. I have spoken to Irish Rail about that and the reason it will not arm them is because a child might hit them. I understand that argument but I do not understand why a driver cannot get out, arm it and then disarm it with his carriage key. I am lucky in that I have acquired a carriage key but sometimes I cannot get to it in time to arm my own switch. I acquired that because I have friends in Irish Rail. If one does not have a carriage key one has to try to do what I did, namely, stand up, break the glass and hit the one that located very high up.