Irish Rail price increase

brownacid

Irish rail have increased their prices in the last week and as far as I can see have not advised it on their website. I went up today to buy my weekly ticket to town from balbriggan as I do every week, requested the ticket from the machine for it to ask me for 23.20 compared to 22.50 it has been for a student for the past year and a bit.

I find it surprising that they don't advise this with signage or at least an announcement on their website. I know it was only an increase of 70 cent but it was 70 cent I didn't have in my pocket, I had to go and scrounge around on the floor of the car to find the change. I'm just glad that I buy my ticket on a sunday when I'm not in a rush to get a train instead of a monday morning!

Losty Dublin

brownacid wrote: »

Irish rail have increased their prices in the last week and as far as I can see have not advised it on their website. I went up today to buy my weekly ticket to town from balbriggan as I do every week, requested the ticket from the machine for it to ask me for 23.20 compared to 22.50 it has been for a student for the past year and a bit.

I find it surprising that they don't advise this with signage or at least an announcement on their website. I know it was only an increase of 70 cent but it was 70 cent I didn't have in my pocket, I had to go and scrounge around on the floor of the car to find the change. I'm just glad that I buy my ticket on a sunday when I'm not in a rush to get a train instead of a monday morning!

It was announced on their website

http://www.irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=1004

brownacid

I stand corrected, although I had a quick look through the website's news section before I posted I couldn't find the announcement in its current news section.


Oh well, you showed me!

Lapin

Still, it was a bit sneaky hiking fares in the middle of a general election when they knew it would receive feckall attention from the media.

Losty Dublin

brownacid wrote: »

I stand corrected, although I had a quick look through the website's news section before I posted I couldn't find the announcement in its current news section.


Oh well, you showed me!

It was announced early Feb so it possibly slipped down on the news page. I'd have expected notices in stations as well though you may have missed them as well.

Losty Dublin

Lapin wrote: »

Still, it was a bit sneaky hiking fares in the middle of a general election when they knew it would receive feckall attention from the media.

Fares were actually going to go up at this time regardless, the election date was co-incidence oddly enough

And if you think a 3% fare hike is bad, wait till you see what FG will do to public transport in the next 3 years; it will not be pretty :mad::mad::mad:

Aard

Why do you think FG will increase prices so much?


Wrt Irish Rail, their prices wouldn't bother me per se. It's their covert fare structure that is baffling. I bet if they sorted that out and made it plain as day how much a given trip is going to cost that most people wouldn't mind a price increase so much.

Poor

And if you think a 3% fare hike is bad, wait till you see what FG will do to public transport in the next 3 years; it will not be pretty

I paid €2.20 for a ticket before, now it's €2.40. I might not be the best with maths but it's nowhere near 3%. More like 9%.

nanu nanu

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Fares were actually going to go up at this time regardless, the election date was co-incidence oddly enough

And if you think a 3% fare hike is bad, wait till you see what FG will do to public transport in the next 3 years; it will not be pretty :mad::mad::mad:

Will they sort it out? Victor this time lets see how far this will go eh.

Zebra3

€2.05 for the train from Maynooth to Leixlip Louisa Bridge.

Wtf? :eek:

LXFlyer

That'd be about right - it would be at least €1.85 on the bus and the train single is always slightly more expensive than the bus.

It's €1.80 using a smartcard.

CommuterIE

Got a one-way ticket from Connolly to Dundalk the other day... €22.20 :eek:

Stark

Was thinking of starting to get the train home on weekends since petrol prices are skyrocketing and I work right next door to Heuston station so can easily walk straight from work to the train on a Friday evening. But then they go and hike their prices again. Car it continues to be...

mickydoomsux

Stark wrote: »

Was thinking of starting to get the train home on weekends since petrol prices are skyrocketing and I work right next door to Heuston station so can easily walk straight from work to the train on a Friday evening. But then they go and hike their prices again. Car it continues to be...

Book online if it's a single.

DWCommuter

Losty Dublin wrote: »

And if you think a 3% fare hike is bad, wait till you see what FG will do to public transport in the next 3 years; it will not be pretty :mad::mad::mad:

Back that up please.

Losty Dublin

DWCommuter wrote: »

Back that up please.

The current FG transport document proposes a wholesale tendering sale of large lumps of routes complete with PSO subsidies on routes that are less lucrative. Aside from the fact that this isn't renewing, improving or awakening the bus route market (Which is what matters most to people, buses that get you to wherever you wish to go and cheaply), it's simply selling off routes to make a quick bob to somehow punish Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann under the pretext of "improvement" yet we as taxpayers still stump up for the private companies when they make a loss. They point out that PSO fundings have increased over the last few years but that is as much from a new way of working out same as distinct to it being a top up as it once was; in all reality the PSO will end up going to Aircoach or Arriva or Stagecoach or whomever it is that makes winning bids should routes be slod off.

London (Their model for this idea) is a city that seems to work well but it is a massive city and it has a strong public body regulating (And indeed subsidising it) over it's market, something we lack here. Indeed, most of the UK private models have failed or have had to slim down drastically bar for those cities with, shock horror, a semi state bus company operating in it.

The answers to the problems with Dublin Bus lay not with who runs what but who's watching over it and laying down the law and how they apply the law they work under. Successive Transport departments over the years have sat and done little to nothing and until the senior civil servants sweat out of their old ideas, it won't change. Granted, BAC can and need to cut corners here and there but what large company can say otherwise?