TFI Fare Revisions from 28th November 2022 Including New 90 Minute Fare.

Easy solution would be just to reduce the fares for all.

Buses: Tag-on only - no tag off

If the journey is 1-3 stages tag on using the driver machine for the short fare.

Otherwise use the right hand validator for the 90 minute fare

Use the driver’s machine and ask if you’re not sure of the fare.

Trains & LUAS: Tag on and tag off

You must follow that procedure for every trip you make (including different elements of a longer journey).

The system will record each trip and if you’ve already paid the €2.30 on the first part of a longer trip, it will know to charge zero for the rest.

Thanks! all clear now!

I got off the Luas at Broombridge, and held my card up to the reader on the platform (I think that counts as tagging-off). I then got onto the commuter train. I genuinely didn't know whether I was supposed to hold it up to reader twice to signal a tag-off and an immediate tag-on.

Cheers, it really wasn't clear to me in the dark what the expected procedure was - whether there are separate readers for Luas/train etc. Broombridge is rather unique on the T90 system I think, with no obvious separation between the two different modes.

It's a travel method I would like to try again - there seems to be a sweet-spot of 3 commuter trains arriving in Broombridge between 18:00 and 18:12 so if I can get a Luas in O'Connell at ~17:40/45 then for just €2.30 it compares favourably with getting a 39 bus from the quays. Not necessarily always quicker but more pleasant and less prone to a huge downside if traffic is fecked. But I'd like to be sure I'm doing it right.

I had no idea that the right hand validator was for the 90 minute (€2.30) fare! Was this previously for the most expensive fare?

Would be nice if there was some way of knowing what that validator is for without having to ask on boards.ie! No driver ever told me that I could use it any time I asked for the 90 minute fare.

Some people store both Ramblers and credit on the Leap Card. The driver may have assumed you wanted to use only €2.30 for a single trip from the credit and not have the remote validator deduct an entire Rambler day.

Does anyone know if I tag on a Dublin bus and then tag on at Dublin Connolly within 90 minutes but forget to tag off at the destination Dublin commuter station what fare I will be charged. Is it 2.30?

Very similar to my query, Luas, walk, Dart and back again, Dart, walk, Luas. Do I tag off the Luas at all? And the reverse, tag on the Dart, then do I tag off it and tag on and off the luas as normal? Thanks in advance.

This proposed fare reduction totally p155es me off!

Fifty or so years of paying for public transport for college and commuting, and now that I've got the old age free pass and enjoying the sense of superiority over the paying hoi polloi they want to reduce prices 😡

Wait till you hear about BusConnects and how they'll... "gasp" chop off 10% of your garden! 🤯

It has it's compensations. I bring the walker on the bus which takes up another seat so I can sit in isolation. Anyway I need another seat for my fedora and my tea flask and sandwiches.

Also I love the USB ports that are on the bus that I use too charge my phone, iPad, Apple remote, and a couple of torches ... prolongs the journeys a bit if they are low but hey... it's free 😀

I've tried to Google this to see and lead too more confusion

Can I get the trains from navan road (phoneix park) to bray for two euro?

Cheers

Thanks for the reply and information, the calculator is handy (I need to learn go Google better)

I just checked from m3 parkway to Bray is two euro, that can't be right?

Yes it is correct as the “long fare” of EUR 2.00 applies as the two stations are within the “inner short hop zone”.

Fares involving stations outside that zone (bounded by Rush & Lusk, Maynooth, Hazelhatch and Bray) will be higher.