What happens if you don't pay on the Luas?

spud82 · 01-10-2015 10:07AM

Jeremy Corbyn

01-10-2015 10:12AM

I got caught once.

I had tagged off (99.99999% certain) and was returning home from wherever I was. For whatever reason, the machine didn't register I had tagged off and so when I went back on, it logged as a tag off instead.

Ticket inspector checked my card and lo and behold, I was riding without a valid ticket.

The real kicker? For the return trip, I had gone over the daily cap and was now essentially riding for free anyway.

Kev1001 · 01-10-2015 10:30AM

I had to use the green line a lot earlier this year. Inspectors were on the luas regularly at 7am (At one stage I went three days in a row being checked).

Seen one knacker argue that he had a meeting and had no time to buy a ticket. He even argued against getting off the luas without a fine cause he would be late. I'd say he got the next luas after they eventually got him off.

They seem to treat decent people like criminals when they struggle to find their ticket.

Under_Graduate · 01-10-2015 12:05PM

So the inspectors are there more so in the morning times and busy times?

Cause I'm only using it in the evenings.

There were a couple of inspectors yesterday when I was getting on at Jervis, but they were harassing some homeless dude for "loitering".
I was hesitant to get on but they didn't seem to be paying much attention so I was like, f**k it.

Got off at bluebell and there were no inspectors in sight.

Do they tend to check around the busier central station stops, not so much the outer stops?

thee glitz · 01-10-2015 12:16PM

If you don't get a ticket on the luas, they can sue you for breach of contract. for the price of a ticket.

RayM · 01-10-2015 12:26PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I got fined once on the DART because their ticket machine wasn't working and I was going to miss my bus for EP if I waited for the booth to open. Wouldn't risk it again, but I have ZERO respect left for ticket inspectors after that - I would previously have been one of the "don't steal from them" brigade but f*ck 'em.

Before ticket machines, it used to be possible to just pay when you got to your destination. Sometimes ticket inspectors would board the DART and take fares (especially late at night, when most stations are unstaffed). It was a much nicer way of doing things than treating every customer like a potential criminal.

MilesMorales1 · 01-10-2015 03:35PM

I just took 5 separate luas trips, didn't see a single inspector.

The red line really is terrible, I don't take the luas that often so I don't see it, but its ****e.

Kermit.de.frog · 01-10-2015 04:10PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I just took 5 separate luas trips, didn't see a single inspector.

The red line really is terrible, I don't take the luas that often so I don't see it, but its ****e.

The tram itself or some of the specimens on it?

Can't believe they are building the Luas to Broombridge. Some fun and games from there i'd say. IE trains are routinely bricked there.

I have a vision of trams arriving on to O'Connell St with the windows put in.

The thing is it's all so predictable. The new line is going have the same anti social problems.

MilesMorales1 · 01-10-2015 04:17PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The tram itself or some of the specimens on it?

Can't believe they are building the Luas to Broombridge. Some fun and games from there i'd say. IE trains are routinely bricked there.

I have a vision of trams arriving on to O'Connell St with the windows put in.

The thing is it's all so predictable. The new line is going have the same anti social problems.

The... clientele, lets say.

somesoldiers · 01-10-2015 04:27PM

Wasn't their some City type in London caught last year for not having the right ticket
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/30/rail-fare-dodger-avoids-prison-peter-barnett-barrister-chiltern-railways-Marylebone

hatrickpatrick · 01-10-2015 05:02PM

RayM wrote: »

Before ticket machines, it used to be possible to just pay when you got to your destination. Sometimes ticket inspectors would board the DART and take fares (especially late at night, when most stations are unstaffed). It was a much nicer way of doing things than treating every customer like a potential criminal.

That's what pissed me off, I had the correct change which the vending machine had rejected and I offered to pay there and then. Email the RPU twice and they gave me the same bullsh!t about how the circumstances are always irrelevant. If you're providing a public service which people rely on to live their lives, then if you f*ck up that service it should be you who gets inconvenienced, not your customers. The state of some dart stations is an absolute joke in terms of abandonment and broken machines.

What happens if you don't pay on the Luas?

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