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Rip off fares on city centre buses

  • 28-02-2017 6:34pm
    #1
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,737 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm surprised no one has made a thread about this yet, why is there just a set fare rather than distance calculated. When I lived in Glasgow, where ever you got on the bus your fare was distance calculated, yet if I get a bus say from the Crescent in Galway for example (The Salthill bus) I still have to pay the 2.20 Euros, this is ridiculous, it should be at least a Euro and 10 cent or something like that. Why are we letting Bus Eireann away with this, its a blatant rip off.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #2
    n97 mini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    There is a flat fare system in Galway? There are always going to be winners and losers with such a system.

    Ideally it should be lower but that would require even more taxpayer money, from people that don't even live in the same province and I think there's limited appetite for that.


  • #3
    cgcsb
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    Single Leap fare for Galway City is €1.61


  • #4
    Mrs OBumble
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    Because a distance based fare would discourage people from using the bus to get from Knocknacarra to Ballybrit... when actually we need more of them to do it, and a knockers to Parkmore bus too


    Fyi, Bus Eireann don't set the fares. The national transport authority choose them.


  • #5
    cgcsb
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    €1.61 is very good value compared to the UK equivalents the OP mentions.


  • #6
    Losty Dublin
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    Dublin Bus has a Shoppers Fare in place for short inner city trips. Not even a €!


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  • #7
    n97 mini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    Dublin Bus has a Shoppers Fare in place for short inner city trips. Not even a €!

    Dunno why it's only in Dublin though. Should be in any other town also with a DB service.

    Edit: and it's notoriously badly marked at bus stops. I lived in a major US city that had free city centre transport and every bus stop and tram stop had a sign "free zone" along with plenty of onboard announcements.


  • #8
    average_runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    I'm surprised no one has made a thread about this yet, why is there just a set fare rather than distance calculated. When I lived in Glasgow, where ever you got on the bus your fare was distance calculated, yet if I get a bus say from the Crescent in Galway for example (The Salthill bus) I still have to pay the 2.20 Euros, this is ridiculous, it should be at least a Euro and 10 cent or something like that. Why are we letting Bus Eireann away with this, its a blatant rip off.

    Bus Eireann will be gone soon so you be grand


  • #9
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭magentis


    average_runner wrote: »
    Bus Eireann will be gone soon so you be grand

    How much will a taxi cost you then op?


  • #10
    BowWow
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    I lived in a major US city that had free city centre transport and every bus stop and tram stop had a sign "free zone" along with plenty of onboard announcements.

    In Dublin we call that The Luas Red Line :D


  • #11
    Tickityboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭Tickityboo


    n97 mini wrote: »
    Dunno why it's only in Dublin though. Should be in any other town also with a DB service.

    Edit: and it's notoriously badly marked at bus stops. I lived in a major US city that had free city centre transport and every bus stop and tram stop had a sign "free zone" along with plenty of onboard announcements.

    Badly marked!!
    I wonder what those big pink plates on the city centre bus poles are?


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  • #12
    howiya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,397 ✭✭✭howiya


    Tickityboo wrote: »
    Badly marked!!
    I wonder what those big pink plates on the city centre bus poles are?

    They're not on every city centre bus stop though. I'll always check the fare calculator on the app to ensure I'm eligible for the city centre fare


  • #13
    n97 mini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Tickityboo wrote: »
    Badly marked!!
    I wonder what those big pink plates on the city centre bus poles are?

    Only around the perimeter.


  • #14
    Mrs OBumble
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    magentis wrote: »
    How much will a taxi cost you then op?

    CityDirect will just buy up all their buses and run the services on a commercial basis ... slightly higher fares (2.30 from Knockers to town, 2.20 from Westside) smaller discounts for using Leap (20c instead of 59c) - BUT no cost to the taxpayer.

    :D


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