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CIE Annual/Monthly Commuter Ticket Prices - Craziness?

embraer170 · 2003-04-22 22:04:29

Was browsing through Irishrail.ie and came across the following by accident: Annual Commuter Tickets from Heuston: Tullamore: €1820 Athlone: €2150 Thurles: €2150 The Tullamore-Heuston journey isn’t much more than an hour. Is it just me or are those prices absolutely crazy? Compare this to Switzerland, which is considered…

22-04-2003 10:04pm

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Was browsing through Irishrail.ie and came across the following by accident:

Annual Commuter Tickets from Heuston:

Tullamore: €1820
Athlone: €2150
Thurles: €2150

The Tullamore-Heuston journey isn’t much more than an hour.

Is it just me or are those prices absolutely crazy? Compare this to Switzerland, which is considered an expensive (or even rip off?) country: An annual railway ticket for €1900 gives you:

- Unlimited travel on 1000s of kilometres of railway lines.
- Travel on almost all bus routes.
- Travel on the public transport network in every Swiss city.
- Travel on the boat/ferry routes.
- Free or 1/2 price travel on most mountain cablecars.

Purchased as part of a family pack, the cost can be brought down to about €1300 per adult and €300-500 per child.

Similar comparisons could be made with Irish and Swiss monthly commuter tickets.

Was watching an interesting TV program some months ago about people in France who live about 200-300km from Paris, in towns served by TGV. They take the 60-90 minute journey to the capital every day. The program mentioned the cost of their annual ticket and I am convinced it was significantly less than €2000.

Jer

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