I did it last year. Good fun. You’ll enjoy it.

Bouile please don’t buy a bike! Cyclists are w@nkers!!! Everyone knows this!

Motorbike – never looked back. €7 a week in petrol, never late, park nearly anywhere (legally). A little cold and wet this weather but beats the frustration of waiting at a stop, or standing on a jam-packed bus/tram stuck in traffic anyday. Only way to go.

Have a bike for work – love it most of the time except for when it’s raining really bad – but I’m still seriously thinking of getting a car for longer journeys – train fares out of Dublin are mad – especially if there’s a couple of you getting the train together – works out at well over 120euro for a family to get to Dublin from somewhere like Galway versus 50 quid in a car! They’re just turning people against using public transport!

Just be careful. Irish drivers will run you off the road on a bike. I cycled everywhere for 30 years and you want eyes on the back of your head. Many drivers just cut across you so be very careful.

@Christopher completely agree – cycling is so dangerous in Dublin – Without getting into the fact the cycle lanes or rather the lack of them is a complete disgrace, drivers never check their blind spots, they drive in the tiny cycle lanes, where they exist, and they have a complete lack or respect for other road users i.e. cyclists! I’ve only been driving myself a year so everything I’ve learned is pretty fresh in my mind and being a cyclist as well I see the road from other perspectives – there’s a few drivers out there that could do with a refresher course or taking the bike to work for a change – might stop trying to run cyclists over then!

Our train fares are some of the lowest in Europe. A small increase won’t hurt anyone.

My annual ticket for the tube cost £3,040 or €3,800.

the price of a 30 day travelwide ticket at the present time is 110 european yoyo,s not 105 as reported i buy 1 myself

You’ve got the tube Mark, we’ve got Dublin Bus, a Mercedes also costs more than a bike.

And why do you think we have a good service like the tube Keith, because we pay for it. €3,800 in London, €1050 in Dublin. Thats a bit of a difference.

The more money that goes into our public transport the worse it gets, so I don’t get your point?

The Luas is a good service, quiet regular, Dublin Bus could do with some investment in new buses. I don’t know how much is invested in Dublin transport every year. I wouldn’t say alot.

quite regular

You’re all talking about the Luas, Dublin Bus, the Dart, but none of these exist outside the capital. For those of us in the rest of the country we’re supposed to be grateful if the damn bus turns up once or twice a day.

@Mark Larson, the reason the Luas is run so efficiently is because it’s a public-private partnership. It truly is run for the people. Dublin Bus, Bus Eireann, and Irish Rail, however, are run for the benefit of their employees. The whole of CIE Group needs to be privatised and the unions need to be taken to task.

As you refer to the tube I guess you also get London weighting? Currently as far as I can see that stands at central London circa £3299 pa and Outer London circa £1755 pa. So if you live in central London the price of your ticket is already covered. So it’s not a good idea to be comparing transport costs between the 2 cities.

Regarding this statement.

“The NTA said the changes are necessary because of the 6 per cent reduction in subsidies for public transport, as well as the continuing decline in patronage and revenues.”

Did they pay whoever came up with the idea that declining patronage will improve with ticket cost increases??

Not everyone gets that. Also salaries in London are less than in Dublin, rents in London is alot more than in Dublin.

Also the council tax we pay in London is one of the highest in the country, mine is over £1700 a year.

London weighting is paid to certain civil servants, teachers, airline employees, police and security officers in London. It is designed to help these workers with the cost of living in London, which is notoriously higher than that of the rest of the UK. Its purpose is to encourage key workers to stay in London.

The transport is expensive in London, but you can’t compare the tube to Dublin bus. The bus in London is 1.35 on an Oyster card compared to over 2euros in Dublin, and they run twenty four hours and fantastically so – unlike Dublin bus.

Im not comparing Dublin bus to the tube, London Bus & DLR is subsidised by TFL (Mainly the tube). My annual ticket on the tube is over £3000. If Dubliner’s paid alot more than what they are currently paying the money would be there to provide a better transport system (buses & trains). People are unhappy with a service and do not want to pay anymore. The service will never improve. But it sounds like people here believe if they pay more nothing will change. Maybe privatise the Dublin transport network is the answer. But prices will go up.

Yeah but the service is shite

@mark, im a londoner, and one who knows what you are paying for. your annual ticket entitles you to get as far as watford. geographically this is further then central dublin to drogheda in range. thats astounding value. a weekly fair (one return a day) to drogheda is 50 a week, or 2,500 a year. for an absolute shit service? what you are paying for costs about 3 times more than the dublin bus, but as seeing as i have spent half my life between the two places and use only public transport i can say without a doubt its 100 times better. people are paying 50% more distance wise on a bus with a leap card then on an oyster assuming you travel more than 20 stops. your argument makes no sense. a year buss pass in england gets you on the trams too and costs 750£. thats cheaper than a year with dublin bus costing 1150. stop complaining. you”l get no symathy here.

Get a weekly / bus ticket … It works out much cheaper , and you don’t have to be looking for change …

From what I can see, the student ticket hasn’t gone up. Still 86 euro for the 30 day non consecutive. I’m not looking forward to the day they scrap that card and try and get us on the leap card. That way they will be able to make us pay for every journey instead of just scanning off a day. Just look at the new student travel card with the built in leap card. The change is on it’s way.

Who else do you expect them to pay for the wifi??? This is just the excuse they needed

your correct rodrigo
the reason people are not using public transport is that the service has been cut to the bone,
when will they(C.I.E) realise that routes are like an elastic band and by streaching routes from the south of the city to the northside is a diservice to both communities the routes become unreliable and people will&do make alternative transport arrangements.as for the regulator those people are getting money for old rope and maybe a few brown envelopes to boot

@ Joe. Thats what they have done in Limerick. Stretched routes to the limit. I regularly see pensioner standing in the rain and because they stretched the local bus route to further out into more populated areas these old people have no seat because the bus is full. The most vulnerable again paying the price left standing. CIE doesn’t give a damn about customers or Bus Eireann, call it what you like. There isn’t even proper bust stops where I live. people stand where bus stops used to be. They couldn’t even bother doing that for the people.

christopher

that happens here in dublin on a regular basis with pensioners left waiting on scheduled busses which never come we have a system here which is supposed to inform intending passengers when a certain bus is due
yes you,ve guessed it.
it tells you a bus is due in 5-4-3-2-1 mins only for nothing to arrive at the stop i,ve heard tell that Dub Bus invested millions in this system (about 55 i think)would that mony not have been better in updating their fleet and keeping drivers instead of the redundancies the come up every now&then.
it boils down to 1 thing the sheer incompitance of the MANAGEMENT of C.I.E

Trouble? When. I can’t wait. Up until now we just lie down and take it all hope for a magic wand to stop the government hurting people.

True a can of coke is 1.10 in most shops ,just for a coke like it’s a compete rip off its inflation Arite .by next year we have no money #direland

Went to cinema the other day (the only luxury I have left as cannot afford to drink in a pub anymore) and got 1 packet of malteasers 2 Magnum Ice Creams and two of the smallest drinks they had. It came to just short of 23 Euro? I couldn’t believe it. Felt screwed. I normally get stuff cheaper and bring to cinema but i was late and just got them inside but never again. Its disgraceful and there is no justification for this.

The reason cinema food is so expensive is that’s 90% of their income, they basically break even on ticket prices.

No it is not, its pure profit for cinemas. Cinema tickets cost between €10 and €12

Christopher + Brian
I have to agree with you ,We are back to watching the pennies again. BoI have raised their interest rates on mortgages while people are struggling …Where will it all end ?
I wish the government would create jobs here and not just rely on foreign investors to come in and set up businesses here. There is such an opportunity for the gov,. to create jobs just now,for a start they would have a willing workforce !

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Only one catch….. it is in toulouse. It cost alot more in Paris

Yes they would, im a bus driver, people do it every time they go up. All monthly thickets have an expiry date printed on then, you will have at least 12 months to use them

Sure if you give them 2.20 they don’t even give you the 5c receipt back half the time!!

Dublin’s new Leap card should have a daily travelcard were it caps at a certain amount, then you can travel on the Dart, Dublin Bus or Luas as often as you want.

Completely agree Mark. God only knows why they didn’t follow the oyster card system of scanning on and off the bus with a cap on the fares.

I think the problem with Dublin Bus is they use a stage system, different fares for short or long journeys in London its one fare whether you go 1 stop or 10.

We had some and Dublin bus muscled them out of the market.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0620/bus.html
Ah, to be a monopoly…

It’s not the IMF. Ireland was a rip off before the IMF ever set foot in the country. Blaming the IMF just lets the Irish establishment off the hook.

I agree with you Kevin, maybe Donal is listening to the government to much. They blame the I.M.F for everything.