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City bus fares on BÉ website

  • 25-05-2015 10:12pm
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    Mrs OBumble
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    For a recent thread in the Galway City forum, I went looking for city bus fares on Bus Éireann's website.

    After a bit of a hunt, I found a "fare finder" linked to on this page http://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=237#fares.

    Is it just me, or is it kinda odd that they've got linked to an external site, http://www.busfare.co.uk/eireann.html ?

    And was I missing something - are the city bus fares somewhere on their site that's obvious to everyone but me?



    NB Finding region fares is easy, you just start to buy a ticket on line. But here I'm specifically looking at the provincial city services.


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    LXFlyer
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    For a recent thread in the Galway City forum, I went looking for city bus fares on Bus Éireann's website.

    After a bit of a hunt, I found a "fare finder" linked to on this page http://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=237#fares.

    Is it just me, or is it kinda odd that they've got linked to an external site, http://www.busfare.co.uk/eireann.html ?

    And was I missing something - are the city bus fares somewhere on their site that's obvious to everyone but me?

    NB Finding region fares is easy, you just start to buy a ticket on line. But here I'm specifically looking at the provincial city services.

    On the home page there is, at the bottom of the page, a link to "Fares". It can also be found through clicking on the "Journey Planner" link at the top of the page.

    This page is here: http://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=235

    This then has a direct link to the Fare Finder (which you mention above)which is the software that they use to list all of their fares. The software is provided by an external company, but it lists every bus route in the country.

    That's the one place that lists the city/town fares.

    Given the complexity of the staged fares system across the network I'm not really surprised that they use a specialist software provider for this.

    That's the one place that all cash bus fares are listed. LEAP fares are 20% less.

    Personally I'd prefer that they actually set up micro-sites for each of the city/town operations that would include all the information relevant to them.

    With regard to the other thread, as far as I am aware the 410 route (which isn't on the Fare Finder list bizarrely), is the same set up as route 215 in Cork which charges city fares within the city area and then charges normal regional fares outside of that.


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