Luas Monthly Card vs Leap Card

Irishboard

Hi would appreciate any help on this topic.

I commute to work, from Glencairn to Blides Glen 5 days a week. I have always bought a 30 day ticket for 63 euro or something but would it be cheaper if I bought the leap card?

Alternatively, is there any site where I can check the comparison between the two?

dazberry

Irishboard wrote: »

Alternatively, is there any site where I can check the comparison between the two?

The luas website has a comparison tool that you can use to compare the different per journey costs - based on some assumptions, e.g. 10 journeys per week etc.

http://www.luas.ie/best-ticket-options.html

D.

Irishboard

Thanks dazberry ; )

foggy_lad

Irishboard wrote: »

Hi would appreciate any help on this topic.

I commute to work, from Glencairn to Blides Glen 5 days a week. I have always bought a 30 day ticket for 63 euro or something but would it be cheaper if I bought the leap card?

Alternatively, is there any site where I can check the comparison between the two?

If you get a leap card you can only pay for each journey as you take it because despite promises the features of being able to add weekly and monthly tickets on to your leap card are not available yet and are not even close enough to have been given a start date apart from coming soon which has been the case since the leap card was introduced.

Cost for a leap ticket at the moment is €1.75 per trip tagging on and off at each stop. No weekly, monthly or other options are possible!

Total leap card cost of two trips per day, 5days a week for 4weeks is €70 and you must pay for any other trips.

With your 30day pass the cost per trip is €1.47 for two work journeys per day plus can be used between those two zones for unlimited number of journeys for 30days

A weekly ticket the cost is €1.64 per trip for two journeys a day plus allows for unlimited journeys between those zones.

LXFlyer

Glencairn to Brides Glen is a 2 Zone journey.

The 30 day ticket is €63.00.

Using a smart card every day would cost you €1.75 per trip, or €3.50 per day. That would equate to €70 over a 4 week period - so stick with your monthly pass.

Irishboard

Thanks for the advise - yeah I thought I'd better continue to buy monthly tickets but a lot of people had recommended me so got confused

bridgepeople

Irishboard wrote: »

Thanks for the advise - yeah I thought I'd better continue to buy monthly tickets but a lot of people had recommended me so got confused

Would you not be better off getting a taxsaver ticket if you are commuting every day? You'll save at your marginal rate of tax so either 20% or 41%. Maybe more if you count the social charge and all that.

Irishboard

@ bridgepeople, thanks for that. would this apply to Luas alone? suppose i would only have an option to an annual ticket if so? Also, do you have any idea how cheaper this would be considering tax and social charge?

LXFlyer

It depends on what tax rate you are paying but you will save the PAYE, PRSI and USC on the cost of the ticket.

It does depend upon whether your employer partakes in the scheme.

Irishboard

thanks, I used to have that benefit from my employer before but this is not an option any longer. I suppose my option is now only monthly tickets or leap card.

bridgepeople

Yeah you have to put it through your payroll at work I think. So if that's not an option for you then I guess the monthly pass is your best bet.

bk

bridgepeople wrote: »

Yeah you have to put it through your payroll at work I think. So if that's not an option for you then I guess the monthly pass is your best bet.

You know, I've always wondered why it works this way.

Would it not be better if it was centralised, lets say a website on revenue.ie, where you could simply enter your PPS number and what services you have bought and let revenue deal with it.

This way everyone could benefit from this scheme, not just those whose companies decide to implement it.

Same with the bike to work scheme. Crazy that many people can't benefit from it because their employer doesn't implement it.

AlekSmart

bk wrote: »

You know, I've always wondered why it works this way.

Would it not be better if it was centralised, lets say a website on revenue.ie, where you could simply enter your PPS number and what services you have bought and let revenue deal with it.

This way everyone could benefit from this scheme, not just those whose companies decide to implement it.

Same with the bike to work scheme. Crazy that many people can't benefit from it because their employer doesn't implement it.

Abso-bloody-lutely !!!

Both Taxsaver and Bike-to-Work schemes are fully State endorsed and have featured in many Government and Individual Politicians PR blizzards.

Both schemes need to be firmly established as universally available to ALL Tax,PRSI and USC paying persons in the State.

If this means the State agencies such as Revenue having to get more involved with their administration then so bloody well be it !!!!

It is definitely NOT good practice to leave the entitlement at the whim of individual employers,in fact it's downright derelection of duty on the part of Government not to have addressed this from the get-go :mad:

antoinolachtnai

It is stupid beyond belief that the more you earn, the less you pay for public transport.

It would really be better to abolish the whole thing rather than wasting a cent more on administering the scheme.