20% cut to fares for all public transport operators from April

It would be nice if there was better enforcement to stop adults using child leap card on the validator. I try to call them back when I realise they are under paying. In my opinion all child leap card should be photo ID, this may help.

Very few people top up Leap cards in shops, though. Luas/Irish Rail TVMs and smartphone apps would make up most of the volume as well as auto topup.

I'd say, that we need many many more fare inspectors. They should go in groups of a few something between 3 to 5). Could even be a designated team branching off the public transport policing unit. They should have at least 10 groups as such with mini buses so they could disembark dodgy passengers and bring them to the mini bus parked at or very close to a bus stop and finish a paperwork. I haven't seen any of this practised in Ireland apart that once I was checked by a middle-aged sole inspector with a funny old-school British police type of hat. Looked ridiculous. Both, the uniform but also the fact that a group of teenagers could easily kiss the man's ass as he didn't seem to have any of self-defence tools, was alone and a uniform represented him being a butaforic figure, definitely didn't look as a security type of person (which could bring a bit of a safety feeling on board as while checking the tickets he can also see the passengers' socially unacceptable behaviour or even de-escalate spotting a possible antisocial behaviour. It didn't give me any confidence or safety using a PT in Ireland. And knowing fare inspectors are close to non-existend, I often thought myself I'm being a fool paying a full fare. However, I still do pay a full fare as I suppose to, whenever I occasionally use a PT.

Are private minibus licenses hard to get for a particular niche route?

I use those small mini buses a lot when travelling across European countries, why don't we see them here? Cheap AtoB routes where there is little rail options. Is it red tape?

it's not sensationalist at all, our company no longer has customer names on loyalty cards/club cards for similar privacy reasons either

They’re not going to have kids pictures on their leap cards for a variety of reasons with kids appearances changing constantly being just one of them

As it happens, kids leap cards are different in colour to adults so easily spottable by anyone looking to make sure only children use them…

a student leap card will also work for those under 24 still in college, just fyi. Also, it will be the student fare, not child fare.

I used to top up on the app however in the last years the app so bad that it has become unusable for me meaning I've reverted back to using shops to top up.

Correct. Two short and one long beep for a child or student card compared to one long beep for adult cards.

This guy in London started that I think must've expanded here since this was made. https://youtu.be/Uu7Z_pImZmE

Agreed the driver is employed to drive the bus not as revenue protection. If the NTA really cared about their fare revenue they'd employ a similar amount of revenue protection officers on the bus as there already is on the Luas.

And then you wonder why in an average bus trip in Dublin, about a third of the trip time is dwell time at stops 😶

you’re suggesting that a move wholly designed to help with the “cost of living” should have included removing the lowest fares?

wow

It literally doesn’t matter what you think. The only reason the government allowed this is to reduce prices. Everything else is immaterial