Review the ticket inspectors in public transport Dublin Bus, DART and Luas

Andremac96

Basically review what you think of them and your experiences

KD345

Andremac96 wrote: »

Basically review what you think of them and your experiences

Why don't you start the ball rolling. What have been your experiences?

liger

Luas, See them frequently. I always have a valid ticket. never pay them much attention.


DB. Rarely see them. I always have a valid ticket, never pay them much attention.

efb

IR- friendly courteous - always offer my annual ticket- some recognise me
Luas- grand no problems
DB- show the inspector my ticket at Hueston on I go- v friendly
Bus Eireann- drivers grand - rarely see an inspector
Bottom line, they do their job and are usually friendly and courtious

Andremac96

KD345 wrote: »

Why don't you start the ball rolling. What have been your experiences?

They where a matter of interest so feck off

Lapin

Andremac96 wrote: »

They where a matter of interest so feck off

What a prick ^^^

The_Wrecker

What do you think of Dublin bus, Darts to Howth and now this topic on Inspectors? Are you going for the new managers job in Donnybrook?

Mark200

Lapin wrote: »

Andremac96 wrote: »

They where a matter of interest so feck off

What a prick ^^^

Meh I found the 'back-seat mod' far more annoying.

Inspectors on the dart are grand, only get the bus and luas very occasionally, don't think I've ever been asked for my ticket on the luas and haven't been asked on the bus in years

BrianD

Have we changed to a review site?

Rock of Gibraltar

I think I've seen an inspector on a bus maybe twice in the 15 or so years using Dublin Bus, I imagine there's massive fare avoidance given that it's so easy.

In the Netherlands inspectors work in teams, so say on a 5 door double articulated bus there will be 5 or more inspectors at a stop one will get on at each door and they'd blitz the bus in a couple of minutes. It's a little easier though as because of the tag on tag off system you've either tagged on or you haven't there's no trying to argue 'yeah I swear I gave the driver the right amount, he just gave me the wrong ticket'

LXFlyer

DB checkers generally do checks in teams of at least two - they are out there - I've been checked several times lately.

CIE

Andremac96 wrote: »

They where a matter of interest so fecque off

Ban

foggy_lad

I saw a bus Eireann inspector yesterday in the Naas area in a red van. He was doing great work checking tickets but could easily have caught the 5 people who got off the bus at the stop he got on because from the speed they exited the bus on seeing the inspector they had probably passed the stop on their tickets:D

He was quick checking the tickets and did not delay the bus and was as professional as one might expect from an inspector.

Louche Lad

IR - Always professional
Bus Eireann - very rarely been asked - can only think of one occasion - but professional
Dublin Bus - never been asked, but I almost never use them
Luas - don't remember being asked, but I don't use them much

thepieman12345

IR - dont use them very often but usually nice professional and courtious.
BE - never been checked
DB - usually very friendly, recommend cheaper tickets and stuff sometimes, but i have seen them being fairly stringent with the student travel cards but thats fair enough i guess.
Luas - been checked on the luas the most, many are professional but some are very rude, eg snapping tickets out of hands without asking. Generally good but sometimes bad as with everything but of all inspectors most bad experiences have been with the luas

mtjm

IR, Been getting dart/commuter train for best part of 6 years and only came accross an inspecter maybe 5 times, never had a problem with them

BE, while I don't use BE that much never seen an inspecter

DB, they come once in a blue moon and never had issues

Luas, have seen them now and then, I sometimes get the luas and when I'm only going 4 stops or less I don't pay, but do keep an eye on the inspecters if I see them and get off

dogyworld1

im the same

my granda lives right beside the luas stop
about 5-6 stops from me i never pay it , its like 1.80 to go the 60 stops which i think is robbery
but if im going further id use the bus

i never pay the right fare unless im going really far ha

never got caught
probably never will

im kind of lucky
when ever i buy a luas ticket the inspectors get on when ever i dont, i never see them ha
same with buses whenever i pay the right fare i see them
whenever i dont which is 90% of the time i dont see them ha

Tarabuses

dogyworld1 wrote: »

im the same

my granda lives right beside the luas stop
about 5-6 stops from me i never pay it , its like 1.80 to go the 60 stops which i think is robbery
but if im going further id use the bus

i never pay the right fare unless im going really far ha

never got caught
probably never will

im kind of lucky
when ever i buy a luas ticket the inspectors get on when ever i dont, i never see them ha
same with buses whenever i pay the right fare i see them
whenever i dont which is 90% of the time i dont see them ha

Strange sense of humour

AlekSmart

Tarabuses wrote: »

Strange sense of humour

......Not if you're Greek :rolleyes:

starhillroad

.....Not if you're Greek

I've never been to Greece, and the only way I can judge the place is by visiting. A newspaper can only tell me 20% of the whole story. Visiting gets me the other 50%, and then the rest I'll figure out by living there.

But ......if the boyos at the top are doing it, and have plundered and blundered, then by God, I'm at the bottom, I'll happily give two fingers to the system and say eff you.

And .....I won't be alone.

And......I think its only a matter of time before Irish people cop on and start doing it.

Unfortunately, that means that linked people from the golf clubs, Opus Dei, Knights of Malta, Knights of Columbanus need to be prosecuted and jailed. Nothing extreme, I mean in the likes of the Bertie Ahern money won on horses, Father Ted style excuse, four years is enough to cool their heels and set an example. The Garlic smuggling case got six, and I think that set a precedent. Fingleton should get the same sentence as the idiot who brought down Iceland. 4-6 years. And as for the guff about him being vulnerable, old and a pensioner.....

If its good enough for a kiddy fiddler at 75, its good enough for him.

Losty Dublin

starhillroad wrote: »

.....Not if you're Greek

I've never been to Greece, and the only way I can judge the place is by visiting. A newspaper can only tell me 20% of the whole story. Visiting gets me the other 50%, and then the rest I'll figure out by living there.

But ......if the boyos at the top are doing it, and have plundered and blundered, then by God, I'm at the bottom, I'll happily give two fingers to the system and say eff you.

And .....I won't be alone.

And......I think its only a matter of time before Irish people cop on and start doing it.

Unfortunately, that means that linked people from the golf clubs, Opus Dei, Knights of Malta, Knights of Columbanus need to be prosecuted and jailed. Nothing extreme, I mean in the likes of the Bertie Ahern money won on horses, Father Ted style excuse, four years is enough to cool their heels and set an example. The Garlic smuggling case got six, and I think that set a precedent. Fingleton should get the same sentence as the idiot who brought down Iceland. 4-6 years. And as for the guff about him being vulnerable, old and a pensioner.....

If its good enough for a kiddy fiddler at 75, its good enough for him.

And this is to do with the Luas because?

Victor

Let's stick to Luas please.

Aard

Always found the Luas guys grand. Not so long ago there was this asian student who didn't have a student card or something. The inspector was ridiculously nice to her, explaining in detail what to send off where in order to have the fine cancelled. May have been flirting with her on second thought, but still.

Can't remember the last time I was checked on DB. Checked several times as a teenager, and they were always gruff. Hopefully they've changed since.

Rarely take the Dart; never been checked. The guys standing at the railings on exit (Pearse or Tara, can't remember) though were a bit surly.

IR have always been grand.

McG

DB: I've been using DB to commute to work for years now and have never once seen a ticket inspector.

Luas: Haven't used the Luas much in last 2 years but before that used it extensively from launch and noticed that Inspectors were fine though they really did seem to ignore those who (admittedly judging book by cover here) looked least likely to have a valid ticket.

pclive

Got checked yesterday on Dublin Bus three inspectors got on the bus, very nice and friendly.

Luas: I find that the inspectors on the red line do not want the hassle of confronting 'certain people' and would rather let them get off the tram than ask them for a ticket.

AlekSmart

pclive wrote: »

Got checked yesterday on Dublin Bus three inspectors got on the bus, very nice and friendly.

Luas: I find that the inspectors on the red line do not want the hassle of confronting 'certain people' and would rather let them get off the tram than ask them for a ticket.

My Red-Line journey today involved having to sit near a truly woefully unhealthy looking substance -abuser swigging from a can of lager whilst arguing loudly,by mobile phone, with one of his suppliers re the quality of produce.....arriving at Heuston an STT guy steps on board and tells the crátur that alcohol is not permitted on the Tram.....Our apparition then steps off,places the can on the platform and re-boards to continue his loud expletive laden conversation to James's...where he had a rendevous with his MAN.....

We all breathed a sigh of relief...short-lived as it turned out,as a young gent of the Traveller genre boarded with his woman...the pair proceeded to vent their foul-mouthed sekves on the carriage,with our gent shouting into his mobile whilst holding his cigarette lighter to9 the tram seating causing a smell of scorching to waft aloft.....

There is NO answer to this stuff except enough security staff with the power to exclude and keep excluding these savages until they get it into their thick dullards heads that they cannot inmpose their mores on everybody else....OFF and Stay Off until they accept the will of civilization ?

Dublin Bus staff and customers in so many parts of the capital paid a very heavy price over the past two decades due to the authorities downplaying and ignoring the ever worsening situation on the routes....do we want,or can we afford to see new expensive infrastructure go the same way...? :eek:

double jeopardy

Was heading up north last summer. A bus eireann inspector got on the bus around Aughnacloy and was very pleasant and courteous to all except some dude who must have commited some serious offence as the PSNI were awaiting his arrival at the coach station where he was duly arrested. Im pretty sure ive seen this same inspector in Tralee also checking buses. Is that possible that they would cover such area?he knew his stuff and his questioning regarding tickets and passes was so precise that one could definitely not attempt to bluff...not that one would even think of doing so.......