Luas ticket validity

sliabh

I am wondering if the "All Zone" (daily or weekly) Luas tickets that you pick up on the green line give you the ability to travel on the red line as well?

The Luas website is vague about this. I will be getting a weekly ticket next week and on Friday I am getting a train from Hueston. So taking the red line to and from the centre of town would make sense if I don't have to pay anything else.

Anyone got any information on this?

Fudger

no idea but being ireland you probably have to pay seperate for both and a handling fee aswell. :rolleyes:

enterprise

An all-zone ticket would imply that its vaild in all zones Red and Green!

BrianD

The tickets work on both. You can buy a ticket from Sandyford to Tallaght. Obviously you have to walk the bit in the middle!

Tarabuses

So does that mean that Sandyford to Heuston is the same fare as Sandyford to Stephen's Green?

Yoda

I don't know.... if you use the Luas.ie website to calculate your fare, a single Sandyford to Balally (within Green 3) costs €1.30, to Ranelagh (within Green 2) costs €1.60, to Harcourt or Stephen's Green (within Central 1) costs €2.00, but to Connolly or Museum or Heuston (within Central 1) costs €1.80. Fatima to Rialto (within Red 2) costs €2.00, to Kylemore (wthin Red 3) costs €2.20, and to Tallaght (within Red 4) costs €2.40.

John R

Yoda wrote:

I don't know.... if you use the Luas.ie website to calculate your fare, a single Sandyford to Balally (within Green 3) costs €1.30, to Ranelagh (within Green 2) costs €1.60, to Harcourt or Stephen's Green (within Central 1) costs €2.00, but to Connolly or Museum or Heuston (within Central 1) costs €1.80. Fatima to Rialto (within Red 2) costs €2.00, to Kylemore (wthin Red 3) costs €2.20, and to Tallaght (within Red 4) costs €2.40.

Sounds like the website is inaccurate, doesn't surprise me the whole website seemed pretty crap last time I looked.

Next time you are at the stop take a look at the fares on the ticket machines.

Victor

sliabh wrote:

I am wondering if the "All Zone" (daily or weekly) Luas tickets that you pick up on the green line give you the ability to travel on the red line as well?

It would appear they are valid.

"Flexi tickets are All Zone tickets: 1 Day, 7 Day or 30 Day tickets are valid anywhere on Luas." http://www.luas.ie/document/index.asp?head=3#76

Yoda wrote:

to Harcourt or Stephen's Green (within Central 1) costs €2.00, but to Connolly or Museum or Heuston (within Central 1) costs €1.80

Built-in contra charge for shoe leather?

D8 boy

Tarabuses wrote:

So does that mean that Sandyford to Heuston is the same fare as Sandyford to Stephen's Green?

YES - according to the Luas ticket machines. From a Green line stop you can select Heuston (or Connonlly, etc.) as your destination and pay the same as for Stephen's Green. They're all in zone "Central 1".

Also if you try to buy a ticket to somewhere in one of the Red zones, i.e beyond Heuston, you get a warning that a 15-min walk is involved. The machine will even show you a little map of the route to the Abbey stop.

vinnyfitz

D8 boy wrote:

... if you try to buy a ticket to somewhere in one of the Red zones, i.e beyond Heuston, you get a warning that a 15-min walk is involved. The machine will even show you a little map of the route to the Abbey stop.

Whatever happened the link buses that were supposed to run from the Green to Abbey St?

enterprise

Bus link? News to me!

Walking it is a pain in the butt!

EXTEND THE GREEN LINE TO O'CONNELL STREET!

Yoda

Via?

sliabh

Careful what you start there Yoda!

The whole interconnector/metro war had just gone quiet for a week

John R

vinnyfitz wrote:

Whatever happened the link buses that were supposed to run from the Green to Abbey St?

You mean apart from all the regular buses that link the two already?

enterprise

My propsal:

St. Stephens Green (stop) - Dawson Street (stop) - Nassua Street - College Green - Westmorland Street (Stop) - O'Connell Street (stop - Green) where there would be a triangler junction connecting with the red line.

This is bascially what was propsed first by CIE before Mary got her way.

Traffic alts:
Dawson Street: One car traffic lane turn right onto Nassua Street, Tram / Bus lane.

Nassua Street - Grafton Street: Tram / Buses only.

The above two areas are the pinch points of the proposal - there is enough room in Westmorland street - O'Connell Bridge / Street to fit the tracks.

Service to be operated:

Green Line:

Alternate trams operate Sandyford - Connolly and Sandyford - Heuston and vice-versa.

Red Line: Tallaght - Connolly.
The Connolly - Heuston "shorts" would be withdrawn - the paths for these services would be used by the green line trams to / from Sandyford / Connolly - Heuston.

This has the benefit of keeping the two tram fleets apart (if the 30mtrs aren't extended to 40 mtrs) while connecting the two lines.

Suggestions?

Tarabuses

D8 boy wrote:

Also if you try to buy a ticket to somewhere in one of the Red zones, i.e beyond Heuston, you get a warning that a 15-min walk is involved. The machine will even show you a little map of the route to the Abbey stop.

Does that mean that there isn't a 15-min walk when travelling from Sandyford to Heuston? :rolleyes: