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Dublin has the second highest cost of public transport for users in the world

Thingymebob

A friend posted an article on her Facebook which complained that Auckland NZ had the third most expensive public transport in the world... but then Dublin was listed at number two!

I’ve lived in all three places in the top spots. Yes London’s crowded but it’s public transport is epic compared to Dublin (and Auckland!). I live on the Northside inside the M50, but have just one bus route within five minutes walk. It’s unreliable on weekends, and in peak times, you can’t get on the bus. It’s also expensive. All this and the odds of being stuck standing in the rain means I rarely use public transport in Dublin. In London I lived on the Zone 2/3 border (depending on if I was catching national rail or tube), and had four bus routes immediately outside my door, with another ten on the High Street five minutes walk. I used a car sharing club rarely. Public transport in Dublin needs to be more appealing, and not by putting more taxes on car users, but by making public transport so convenient and cheap that you’d be stupid to use anything else.

www. nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12067987&ref=NZH_fb

The 12 most expensive cities in the world for commuting by public transport

1. London - NZ$247 // €147.58
2. Dublin - $187.11 // €111.80
3. Auckland - $174.74 // €104.41
4. New York - $167.35 // €99.99
5. Tokyo - $157.39 // €94.04
6. Amsterdam - $154.41 // €92.26
7. Sydney - $154.12 // €92.09
8. Zurich - $154.12 // €92.09
9. Melbourne - $150 // €89.63
10. Toronto - $146.02 // €87.25
11. Chicago - $145.17 // €86.74
12. Wellington - $143.89 // €85.98

Source: Deutsche Bank, using prices from Expatistan, a site that tracks cost-of-living expenses in more than 200 countries. **converted from NZD to Euros using XE currency app, so rounding etc might mean small differences

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direstraits

I would have no problem paying if the service matched the price. We are paying premium prices for a standard service.

D3V!L

The Dublin price is the monthly tax saver ticket for the Luas.

facehugger99

The money to pay the eye-watering salaries and inefficient working practices of the drivers has to come from somewhere

Canard

Eh, no idea where that number for Dublin came from, not even a student pass is that 'cheap'. An adult monthly pass is a whopping €160.50. It's absolutely disgusting and I have no idea why we put up with the constantly rising prices and appalling service. I've taken to walking anywhere I need to go unless it's pouring rain, and it sometimes doesn't even take much longer given how infrequent the buses are and the constant delays / lack of actual connections like you would find in one central tube station. AND that huge price only includes buses. The helpful daily 'cap' on leapcards kicks in at €7 (and that's only if you haven't used the Dart / Luas as well, which pushes it up even further)... who even takes enough buses for that to become in any way useful?

I just got back from living in Paris where you pay €75 and have access to the entire transport network in Paris *and* the surrounding areas. Your employer generally pays you half of it back (which means, looking at the above DB link, a month of Paris transport essentially equals a WEEK of Dublin Bus transport), and a student pays €300 per year, which is actually affordable. In Paris you might roll your eyes at a 3-4 minute wait for a metro; in Dublin any time <7 minutes feels like a blessing.

(Yes, I have a deep-seated hatred for Dublin Bus.)

Thingymebob

In the top three, yes monthly passes. In London that would include night buses and also the weekend tube. In Auckland the last buses and trains are just after midnight. In Amsterdam monthly ticket covers night services. Dublin and the rest not sure.

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Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Thingymebob wrote: »

A friend posted an article on her Facebook which complained that Auckland NZ had the third most expensive public transport in the world... but then Dublin was listed at number two!

I’ve lived in all three places in the top spots. Yes London’s crowded but it’s public transport is epic compared to Dublin (and Auckland!). I live on the Northside inside the M50, but have just one bus route within five minutes walk. It’s unreliable on weekends, and in peak times, you can’t get on the bus. It’s also expensive. All this and the odds of being stuck standing in the rain means I rarely use public transport in Dublin. In London I lived on the Zone 2/3 border (depending on if I was catching national rail or tube), and had four bus routes immediately outside my door, with another ten on the High Street five minutes walk. I used a car sharing club rarely. Public transport in Dublin needs to be more appealing, and not by putting more taxes on car users, but by making public transport so convenient and cheap that you’d be stupid to use anything else.

www. nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12067987&ref=NZH_fb

The 12 most expensive cities in the world for commuting by public transport

1. London - NZ$247 // €147.58
2. Dublin - $187.11 // €111.80
3. Auckland - $174.74 // €104.41
4. New York - $167.35 // €99.99
5. Tokyo - $157.39 // €94.04
6. Amsterdam - $154.41 // €92.26
7. Sydney - $154.12 // €92.09
8. Zurich - $154.12 // €92.09
9. Melbourne - $150 // €89.63
10. Toronto - $146.02 // €87.25
11. Chicago - $145.17 // €86.74
12. Wellington - $143.89 // €85.98

Source: Deutsche Bank, using prices from Expatistan, a site that tracks cost-of-living expenses in more than 200 countries. **converted from NZD to Euros using XE currency app, so rounding etc might mean small differences

I'll assume that's the cost of an unlimited monthly pass. Out of interest, in which cities does it include night travel?