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My new annual ticket...€575

  • 30-09-2010 2:55pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,048 ✭✭✭✭


    Just ordered a new ticket for next year. As a "sorry" for the problems caused by the Berlin S Bahn this year, all users who take out an annual ticket are eligible for 2 months free travel...in my case a reduction of €115 on the normal price. Total cost to me to use ALL buses (including night buses etc), trams, underground, commuter and regional rail as well as ferries in the whole city of Berlin for one full year...€575. Can't go wrong at that price!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    Lucky you. I couldn't afford a yearly bus & luas ticket. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,048 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    angel01 wrote: »
    Lucky you. I couldn't afford a yearly bus & luas ticket. :(
    I don't have to pay for it in one go, they take a direct debit from my account once a month for 12 months..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    murphaph wrote: »
    I don't have to pay for it in one go, they take a direct debit from my account once a month for 12 months..

    Even luckier then, in my workplace, they wanted to take 1130.00 within 3 months and I couldn't do that :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭thomasj


    Really?............. Most places would spread it out over the frequency people are paid. Ie weekly monthly etc


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    murphaph wrote: »
    Just ordered a new ticket for next year. As a "sorry" for the problems caused by the Berlin S Bahn this year, all users who take out an annual ticket are eligible for 2 months free travel...in my case a reduction of €115 on the normal price. Total cost to me to use ALL buses (including night buses etc), trams, underground, commuter and regional rail as well as ferries in the whole city of Berlin for one full year...€575. Can't go wrong at that price!
    not really relevant to irish commuters or to irish transport? berlin and germany have much better infrastructure and a much higher population as well as a better work ethic so their trains are usually on time clean much faster etc, ireland will never have anything like the transport system available in berlin munich etc.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    thomasj wrote: »
    Really?............. Most places would spread it out over the frequency people are paid. Ie weekly monthly etc

    Yeah, afraid so..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    How much does the German government subside Public Transport over there, Murphat?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭Tom2


    murphaph wrote: »
    Just ordered a new ticket for next year. As a "sorry" for the problems caused by the Berlin S Bahn this year, all users who take out an annual ticket are eligible for 2 months free travel...in my case a reduction of €115 on the normal price. Total cost to me to use ALL buses (including night buses etc), trams, underground, commuter and regional rail as well as ferries in the whole city of Berlin for one full year...€575. Can't go wrong at that price!

    My annual Bus & Rail Short Hop for the Dublin region costs less than that, as a result of the Taxsaver scheme.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,048 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    Tom2 wrote: »
    My annual Bus & Rail Short Hop for the Dublin region costs less than that, as a result of the Taxsaver scheme.
    How big is the short hop area Tom? Does it include Nitelinks and the Luas?

    I always thought the annual tickets were quite expensive in Dublin. Hamndegger, not sure but the subsidy to public transport is generally higher in Germany, though many providers (S Bahn Berlin, for example) are highly profitable in their own right, due to the sheer numbers of passengers they carry. I think the subsidies go more towards covering night time services and services to more outlying districts tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭KC61


    The Short Hop area incorporates all Dublin Bus services and Irish Rail services as far as Balbriggan, Maynooth, M3 Parkway, Hazelhatch and Kilcoole. Where a combined ticket with LUAS is purchased, it covers all LUAS lines.

    Annual bus tickets include the Nitelink.

    Ticket options are Bus only, Bus/Rail, Bus/Luas, or Bus/Rail/Luas which are all priced differently. A Rail/LUAS option is also available.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    KC61 wrote: »
    A Rail/LUAS option is also available.

    train tram version surely... ;)


    Does the short hop zone cover the car park off the M3 station?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭gmale


    I am paying 1526 gross this year on my annual bus ticket. I got it through the taxsaver scheme so I am getting some it back by paying less tax but I reckon a hell of a lot more than 575.

    My ticket is for Bus Eireann commuter and is only valid between two points, where I live and Dublin City Centre. It does not entitle me to any transport on Luas, Dart or Dublin Bus or travel on any other Bus Eireann route, even between surrounding villages where I live. It is not valid on nightlinks or the night link style service that bus eireann operate around christmas. Its 20 miles a day only.

    Integrated ticketing and common sense are things i dream of


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Integrated ticketing and common sense are things i dream of

    Gmale,I too dream of such things,if only to enable me to do my own job in a more effective and efficient manner.

    However it`s worth noting that Murphaph`s €575 Ticket is available NOW....whereas we have already collectively given a body known as The Integrated Ticketing Implimentation Group c. €36 Million which they have enthusiastically spent on stuff....manly "Consultancy Fees".

    As of NOW in modern Knowledge Based Ireland we do not have any integrated ticket in an acceptable sense...what we do have is a number of partially integrated corporate products which at some future point a Consultant advises it should be possible to integrate.

    If this advice was/is worth €36 Million then I now know I took the wrong career path.....

    I am always drawn back to the evidence given to the Oireachtas Joint Committee by former Dept of Transport Secretary General,Julie O Neill.

    Ms O Neill,without any hint of irony,told ythe assembled members that in her entire career "The Integrated Ticketing issue was the only thing providing her with sleepless nights".

    Perhaps unsurprisingly,Julie O Neill retired last year from the Public Service,with fulsome praise from Minister Dempsey and his associates,to enjoy a new life full of sleep no doubt :rolleyes:


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    are they the same consultants that were used for the voting machines and other fianna follies?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Are they the same consultants that were used for the voting machines and other fianna follies?

    Im sorry Mr Foggy_Lad we can`t possibly reveal that...as it is,of course Commercially Sensitive Information....you know how it is....;)


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    I pay EUR 78.90 (at current exchange) for my monthly subscription bus/LRT/subway ticket. I get 15% of that back in my tax return (non-refundable credit though so if you're low income/pay no tax no rebate for you)

    The equivalent of an outer suburban IE ticket is a bit pricier, about EUR 190/month.


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