New zonal ticketing system for the Dublin Commuter Zone from Jun 1, 2025

tag on the bus and tag off at the stop when you get off. Would require huge infrastructure investment though

Lot's of working class Dubs being pushed out as far as Portlaoise, Gorey and Mullingar due to being priced out of the Dublin market. Not everyone living outside of Dublin is living in a mansion.

Assume so. I can't see a return of the outer suburban fare.

Can easily make the same equivalent argument of somebody living in a luxury apartment in Grand Canal Dock vs a council house in Celbridge.

If somebody is commuting 1.5hr+ by public transport each direction, each day, they aren't likely doing it by choice, rather forced to do it because of the reality of the housing market we find ourselves in.

There are definitely wealthy people who choose to live outside of Dublin, but by and large they are the same folk who drive big expensive cars in and out from South County Dublin and are immaterial to costings of Public Transport

price increase for Greystones commuters, that'll go down well just after they've screwed around with the bus routes.

Ditto for Naas/Sallins. Naas and Greystones are integral parts of the Dublin Suburban Area

After, reading the document it seems mostly a good idea but won't be great for some (like myself).

I get the bus from Enfield (currently green zone on the point to point system) - the ticket costs €1,472.00

Under the new ticket I will be in Zone 3 - Ticket will cost €1,960.00

I know I would have use of the train, Luas, Dublin bus under the new ticket but they are of no use to me.

The train is too infrequent (doesn't start early enough to get me to work, last trains back are early compared to the bus especially on Sat/Sun - 19:30)

I almost never have a reason to use the LUAS or Dublin bus. So for someone outside of Blue Zone/Zone 2 things will get dearer although you would still realistically have the same level of service.

Unfortunately, with any border line drawn there will always be those that win and those that lose. This applies to every city that has zonal fare systems. Why am I on one side and not the other. In short it has to be based on distances. The €2 fare can't cover out into the GDA and the same goes for this ticket which is actually cheaper than using 5 x €2 90 minute tickets after tax on the top rate per week. There is a very heavily subsidised system in place.

The reality has to be faced, that unfortunately some people have to commute longer distances and there has to be a cost to this. This has always been the case henceforth. If you drive in your car, you will use more petrol and cost more too. Its a basic concept for travel.

they would argue there is no increase, the dearer ticket provides use on more modes. Would probably be useless to most though which is a de facto increase

I see prices on the 109x route will increase. I suppose when you have full or nearly full busses every morning and evening theres no point in reducing fares.

Although given the queues for the 109x in the evening at Bus Aras they obviously underestimated the size of their "commuter zones".

Thanks for this. It still proves that for no usable extra services my yearly ticket will increase by almost 500 euro.