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tagging on with annual Luas Leap card

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    #32
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    A ticket inspector told me it was a good idea to tag my annual ticket on occasionally just to keep it "fresh". So I tag on every so often, but I never tag off.

    If Transdev forced me to tag on and off for every journey using a monthly or yearly ticket on a leap card or risk paying a fine, I'd just go back to paper tickets.


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    #33
    Vic_08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    syklops wrote: »
    If Transdev forced me to tag on and off for every journey using a monthly or yearly ticket on a leap card or risk paying a fine, I'd just go back to paper tickets.

    That.

    Ridiculous to introduce new technology and make it less user friendly than existing formats.

    The user data that apparently is so valuable from enforced tagging is incomplete anyway as paper tickets are not logged. Users can be counted in other ways, door step counters for example.


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    #34
    beauf
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    lxflyer wrote: »
    Whatever about the legal ins and outs, how hard is it just to comply with tagging on every time?

    It's as if people are just trying to find any excuse not to follow a simple procedure.

    Personally I just forget on the Luas when I get off. As you don't always pass the scanner as you leave the platform. The design of the platform has a lot to do with it, I generally always remember if the luas platform, funnels you past the scanner. Forget sometimes if it doesn't. Sometimes I remember on returning to the platform. So I scan off then. But then it means I can't scan back on before the next luas!

    On the Train you naturally pass through the gate to exit. Though if your hands are full, say you have a bicycle it can be pain. Depends where you have the card.

    My leap used not scan through the wallet until I rearranged the Leap card to keep it on the outside and keep the other cards as far away from it as possible.


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    #35
    beauf
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    Be great if they had a bluetooth or NFC scanner that would do it automatically.

    Though they have to have a means to control non annual tickets, so they'll always have to have some sort of scanner, I suppose.


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    #36
    JimsAlterEgo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭JimsAlterEgo


    Having something in T&C does not make it legally enforcable, this is a prime case of it. You have a valid ticket, I would argue same for Dublin Bus.


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    #37
    L1011
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    JimsAlterEgo wrote: »
    Having something in T&C does not make it legally enforcable, this is a prime case of it. You have a valid ticket, I would argue same for Dublin Bus.

    DB required validation of the paper equivalents though. This is an extra requirement on Leap and the equipment simply isn't there at many stops. Whereas some are ludicrously over equipped, Spencer Dock for instance


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    #38
    morrga
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭morrga


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i never tagged on with my annual ticket and never got any sniff of a fine; the ticket is prepaid so fare evasion is a tough one to prove.

    the reason given for tagging on when i asked about this (sent an email to them) was that 'it keeps the software on the card up to date'. there was no mention of it being required to validate the ticket before boarding.

    I was told it was to track traveling numbers. There is no neccesity. I never tag and they don't bother telling me to tag on any more.


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