Dublin bus driver on 66b

mgs07 · 16-09-2013 5:00pm #1

:mad: I got on the bus a couple weeks ago with a student rambler and stupidly left my travel card at home. The bus driver (66b<SNIP>) took it off me. I paid 91.30 for it an was fuming as i was only getting 90E per week!! i explained that I had a travel card and i'd go home an get it and use it on the next bus but he wouldn't give it back and told me I could collect it in o'connell st. if i brought my travel card. Annoying, but what's worse is he never dropped it into o'connell street and kept the bus ticket. I never got his name but he basically robbed me!!! HATE BUSDRIVERS NOW!! is there anything I can do about this, i doubt i'm the only person he's done this too!!

foggy_lad · 16-09-2013 5:03pm

Report it to dublin bus as if he never handed the confiscated ticket in then he could be using it or may even have sold it. There is no evidence of this but why else would he not hand in cconfiscated tickets?

mgs07 · 16-09-2013 5:05pm

Yeah first thing I thought of was that he sold it to someone...snake!! can't remember what date it was though and didn't get his name:(

emeldc · 16-09-2013 5:10pm

If he's a regular driver he shouldn't be too hard to find by your description. Did you ring anyone in Dublin Bus. Can you try and catch him on the bus again, only stand your ground until you get an answer. Don't know what else to say really.

dudara · 16-09-2013 5:14pm

Report it to Dublin Bus asap to see what they can do.

Moving to Commuting & Transport.

dudara

stehyl15 · 16-09-2013 6:22pm

Do you what bus it was like was it the 12.45 for example

cdebru · 16-09-2013 6:26pm

The date and time report it to Dublin bus if it happened, why are you only chasing it up now if it happened a few weeks ago ?

If you have the time and the day you won't need any name as they will know exactly who was driving that day at that time.

ordinary_girl · 16-09-2013 7:56pm

I had my 30 day student ticket taken off me before by a bus inspector because I left my travelcard at home. He gave me a docket with the bus route and time etc on it so I brought it into DB the next day with my travelcard and got my ticket back. Did the driver not give you any kind of proof that your ticket had been confiscated? If he didn't, just argue the point with DB and don't let him get away with.

xper · 16-09-2013 8:22pm

Under what circumstances would a driver be asking to see a student's travel ID anyway? Surely you just validate your student rambler ticket on the machine when boarding and a missing ID card would only be discovered by a ticket inspector sometime after you had sat down.

miller50841 · 17-09-2013 8:48pm

xper wrote: »

Under what circumstances would a driver be asking to see a student's travel ID anyway? Surely you just validate your student rambler ticket on the machine when boarding and a missing ID card would only be discovered by a ticket inspector sometime after you had sat down.

Read the bye laws it states that any official including the driver can request to see a ticket or I.D. it's just not enforced by many. There are so many abusing the badly enforced ticket system as it is so maybe it's time for change and get driver's to actually keep an eye on this and the adults using the child ticket's which is happening.

My dad never bothered but he is gone out a few years now.

mgs07 · 26-11-2013 5:17pm

he never gave it in at all!!! had to get a new one, dublin bus reluctantly gave me a new one after i went into them a few times and complained about it.

Dublin bus driver on 66b

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