No Student Leap Card

Eathrin

Why is there no option for Student Leap Cards available? Or are there plans in place for one? It has "Leap" printed on my student travel card despite there being none available. Also, on the Leap website I believe it has said that there will be a student card made available "soon" since the site and card first launched, which is no short period of time.

The Leap card does not significantly reduce my fare and doesn't really make life any easier for me, financially, as a student.

There is a student ticket scheme for Dublin Bus but not for Luas for which I must use the Leap card.

partyatmygaff

The student travel card also functions as a leap card. There's no need for a separate Leap card.

Jamie2k9

The student cards with leap printed on them are leap cards.

Eathrin

I wasn't aware of that!
Still, I don't use the LUAS often enough to get any of the 7/30 day tickets and there's no discount on single journey.
The 30 day non-consecutive rambler on Dublin Bus for €86 is extremely good value.

Payton

partyatmygaff wrote: »

The student travel card also functions as a leap card. There's no need for a separate Leap card.

Does it offer a student rate for the luas since its a student card?

goingnowhere

For weekly and monthly tickets it does

Payton

goingnowhere wrote: »

For weekly and monthly tickets it does

My son was paying €2.40 per trip with the leap card (2 trips per day, 5 days a week) on Dublin bus...not much of a saving for a student. We changed to a 5 day rambler ticket for €17.20 per week.

LXFlyer

The student card allows you to buy student weekly and monthly tickets on Dublin Bus, Irish Rail and LUAS.

It also acts as a LEAP epurse allowing you to use it to avail of the discounted adult LEAP single fares.

There are no student single fares in the Dublin commuter Short Hop area.

The LEAP card does offer a discount on single cash fares on the LUAS.

Dravokivich

Payton wrote: »

Does it offer a student rate for the luas since its a student card?

AFAIK Luas only provides child and adult rates. Counting adult from 16 up. they don't have student rates.

Payton wrote: »

My son was paying €2.40 per trip with the leap card (2 trips per day, 5 days a week) on Dublin bus...not much of a saving for a student. We changed to a 5 day rambler ticket for €17.20 per week.

Is your son 2nd level or 3rd level? There's no reduced cash fairs for 3rd level at all. It's always been done via the prepaid tickets, which required a valid student travel card.

Problem with the student travel card, is the scope is for all students that are 16+ and doesn't offer scholar fares that would be avail to 2nd level students when paying by cash.

LXFlyer

Dublin Bus have a scholar 10 journey ticket available for over 16s still at school.

Details here:
http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Fares--Tickets/Tickets/Other/

Payton

He is 18yrs old and in 3rd level education. Tallaght to Rathmines commute.

LXFlyer

Here is the full range of student prepaid tickets available that cover Dublin Bus:
http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Fares--Tickets/Tickets/Student-Tickets/

Note that the 5 day and 30 day tickets are non-consecutive days.

Eathrin

lxflyer wrote: »

Here is the full range of student prepaid tickets available that cover Dublin Bus:
http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Fares--Tickets/Tickets/Student-Tickets/

Note that the 5 day and 30 day tickets are non-consecutive days.

There is no similar initiative for Luas though.

LXFlyer

Eathrin wrote: »

There is no similar initiative for Luas though.

There are 7 day and 30 day student LUAS only tickets available, priced according to the number of zones needed, which are consecutive. Unfortunately only DB have the non-consecutive tickets. LEAP does still provide a discount over the cash fares however.

http://www.luas.ie/7day-and-30day-tickets.html
http://www.luas.ie/flexi-tickets.html

gmurp

Hi guys,

one quick query i had to ask was, im applying for a student travel card, but am still 15 and im allowed to pay child school fare still, with the student travel card, can i still pay child fare?,

thanks guys !

punisher5112

The Student Leap card is for 16 upwards so technically no you are not meant to be able to get €0.70 fare off it.

What you can do is put on Travel90 scholar ticket onto your leap card which is for 16 to 18 year olds in secondary school but not 3rd level (college).

LXFlyer

The Scholar Travel90 tickets are still paper only and require scholar ID.

Julius Seizure

gmurp wrote: »

Hi guys,

one quick query i had to ask was, im applying for a student travel card, but am still 15 and im allowed to pay child school fare still, with the student travel card, can i still pay child fare?,

thanks guys !

Yeah it counts as an accompaniment fare, it will print a ticket for you

gmurp

so you reckon i could get away with askin for childs fare still? , is there a ban on the student or adult for gettin a child fare, like i mean does the machine litterly not allow a fare for under 16's to be deducted is it still possible,

haha, bare me with me please,

thanks lads

gmurp

can you put any dublin bus ticket on to a leap card? i looked up the brochure for the student travel card and only about 4 different dublin bus tickets were said to be usable with it ?

Dravokivich

gmurp wrote: »

can you put any dublin bus ticket on to a leap card? i looked up the brochure for the student travel card and only about 4 different dublin bus tickets were said to be usable with it ?

The tickets that go onto a Leap Card depend on the type of Leap Card.

Any kids tickets, need a child card. I don't think there's any transferred to Leap yet.
Any student (3rd level) tickets, need a student travel card. Only Ramblers, 5Day/30Day as far as I know.
Any adult tickets, need an adult card. Ramblers, 5Day/30Day and apparently Travel90, although I've never seen anything about it other than mentioned here on boards.

Edit,
Also a 1 day family ticket, for adult cards.

LXFlyer

Dravokivich wrote: »

The tickets that go onto a Leap Card depend on the type of Leap Card.

Any kids tickets, need a child card. I don't think there's any transferred to Leap yet.
Any student (3rd level) tickets, need a student travel card. Only Ramblers, 5Day/30Day as far as I know.
Any adult tickets, need an adult card. Ramblers, 5Day/30Day and apparently Travel90, although I've never seen anything about it other than mentioned here on boards.

Edit,
Also a 1 day family ticket, for adult cards.

As yet there has been no official mention of Travel 90 ticket availability on LEAP.

gmurp

does the machine bus drivers use notify them of witch type of leap card is it do you think?

would a student travel card allow 70c busfare be deducted ?

fleet

Payton wrote: »

He is 18yrs old and in 3rd level education. Tallaght to Rathmines commute.

Bicycle! It's a nice ride.

Julius Seizure

gmurp wrote: »

does the machine bus drivers use notify them of witch type of leap card is it do you think?

would a student travel card allow 70c busfare be deducted ?

Don't worry it works I've done it many times, borrow my dad's card and buy a child fare. Just explicitly ask for a child, once I asked for 1.30 and got an adult 1.45 which wasn't valid far enough