Everyone is getting poorer so let’s ram up the price of everything. Makes loads of sense

They have cut the services so they should be cutting the fares instead of increasing them.

So much for encouraging people to use public transport price increase is not the way to

dublin bus and dart just put up there prices every year no matter what.
in 2002 the price of the bus into town was €1.60 from most areas and next year it will be roughly €2.40.
Imagine if everything had that much inflation over the last 10 years?
I wouldnt mind but dart punctuality is down according to the posters, half the time buses dont show up on certain routes, the real time displays at the bus stops are ficticious and theres never been less security on the dart/and none on the bus.

great country this though

Did I read the other day that Dublin bus were buying a s**t load of new busses to upgrade their fleet? Question no 2 is why do I always see junkies getting on the bus with a free travel pass? I pay a fare only to have to endure listening them scutter out of them on their free ride. Sickening.

Will these fare increases be in punts or euros?

please let me apologise in advance for my language but………..F**k you bus eireann!!!

We be all goin back to the pony and cart days if this keeps up!

If the leap card prices are as cheap to use as the Oyster card in London then fair enough but if not then its back to the car for me…..not that I can really afford that either!

Motor tax gone up, VAT gone up, petrol and diesel gone up, one would expect public transport to stay same or go down…where’s the balance? This formula is persistently shifting to the left!

I thought that was a sick joke when I read the headline. Services on all of the mentioned services, except Luas, are plummetting in terms of efficiency and frequency, so they want us to pay more for the privilege of having to wait longer! Scumbags

Try and get public transport home at 23:45 on a Sunday to Thursday. You can’t. Gotta love Irish Public transport.

Yeah goes up every January by 5 to 10 cent without fail on Dublin Bus and Luas, which would be the two I’d be most familiar with… Disgrace!

Nothing surprises me about Irish rail. They manage to cut 30 minutes of journey times to Gslway in 60 years and they still take 3 hours when you can drive in 2 1/2 hours. The CEO is on the top 10 paid in the country and he should be sacked for poor proformance yet he will get a performance related bonus every year since he started. Go figure! I know we paid more for our new trains than the Chinese paid for their fast trains which can travel the same distance in 35 minutes. Yes 35 minutes to Galway and cheaper engines. Stinks to high heaven – when you think of the salary paid to the head of China rail and what he achieved and our lot. The taxpayer and the travellers deserve better. The PR guy for Irish rail is great. He thinks cutting journey times to Waterford by 15 minutes deserves an oscar. It really deserves a P45.

I’m researching a piece on how these price hikes will impact upon commuters. As a regular bus taker I’m quite worried myself!

I seriously hope they don’t pushup the price of the monthly ticket.

If you’re be interested in helping me out you can drop me a like at doransarahk@gmail.com

Someone told Dublin Bus the recession is over and passenger numbers are set to climb.Normal reaction of a state company in times like this.

Fare enough

It is fundamentally wrong for a monopoly provider to be sticking to public transport users at the same time as cutting benefits and increasing charges in general.
It is time we got real and privatised transport, energy supply, Coilte, Bord Mona the DAA and all the other State owned monopolies.
We here talk of not selling the family jewels but for whose benefit do these agencies exist, certainly not the consumer, citizen or tax payer.

Even when insurance, fuel, tax, and car servicing aretaken into account it still works out cheaper to car commute 70km/day. Wheres the logic in increasing fares??????????

Damn this phone, I was told my first comment didn’t go through. Sorry for similar comment being there twice.

I read the other day the Dublin bus are buying a load of new busses to upgrade their fleet. Looks like were gonna pay for that now. Can someone please tell me why the junkies that get on the bus all have a free travel pass? As if it’s not bad enough having to listen to them, now we’re being asked to pay more for the privilege. Truly sickening in these times.

They are so off the mark. The cost of state sponsored travel versus other counties is in most cases way off the mark. I presume VAT increase will apply also. Recently in barcelona, 8.15 for a 10 trip pass got me to and from airport and 8 metro trips. Similar cost in dublin (I know there isn’t a metro in dublin) would be about 25 or more. And we want to be a tourist venue!

No surprise here.I can’t remember the start of a year where fares didn’t increase.

German marks!

We need a private competitors in both of those areas to do to CIE what Ryanair did for Aer Lingus.. it used to cost 300 punts to go to London not anymore…

we just need competition in the sector. we’ve seen how it has forced the old esb, bord gais, eircom to drop their prices. as for dart fare increase. what a joke. the service now only runs every 15 min which means standing room only from Bray in morning rush hour. and there is no way the journey from Bray to pearse should take 45 min. speed the Feckin thing up 15% and I would be happier paying the extra fare!

another hike whats next?

Sometimes you wonder is it worth making a comment.

Cop yourselves on. Someone has to pay for their annual increments and sustaining progress pay rises!

One has to ask the Question why the state transport system is in deficit.

I can’t believe you want the dart to speed up. During the last floods I got a bus to Blackrock and then a dart to Bray. At Blackrock I noticed the sign on the platform saying next Dart 39 mins so I go for coffee up the town and come back after 20 mins to notice the sign say next Dart 48 mins – I asked the ticket master who told me to ignore the signs as they were all wrong. He also told me to get the Dart from platform1. this is the opposite side to meal and as I was waiting the lady on the other side said she was going to Greystones and it was leaving from that side. I went back to the ticket master and he told me that both sides were being used and going in the same direction for Bray and Graystones – I waits and got my Dart but expected it to crash as it was on the opposite side and I thought of the ticket masters final words to me” he said the system is fucxxx and the lads at the stations are using their mobiles to organise each Dart”. I prayed a little. God help tourists.

Once again the fee paying passengers are being hit. They say the transport is in Deficit and that is why they are increasing fares. I think that they should look at how the bus pass is being used. For example is it fair that one with bus pass can travel all over the country. I do not think so. I would only allow them to travel in their own locality . It is unsustainable in these times to allow people travel the length and breath of the country. I am not against the bus pass being used in moderation. It is very expensive for the fee paying Passenger. Trains are crowded and buses are full of people on the pass a the fares are to expensive. SO GOVERNMENT SHOULD REALLY LOOK AT THE PRESENT ARRANGEMENT ON THE PASS AND REFORM IT TO A SUSTAINABLE LEVIL

I am in favour of people having the bus pass. I know that they need it to go to Hospital if it is a long way from where they live. OF COURSE PEOPLE ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY HAVE TO HAVE THIS FACILITY When the late Charlie Haughy introduced the pass Ireland was a different place then. I know that there are people living in the country who depend on public transport to get them fro AtoB. Also that it is not everyone that has the luxury of their own transport. So Yes they need the pass.MY POINT IS THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTING THE PASS AND DENYING THE PEOPLE WHO DO NEED IT. WE ALL KNOW THAT RESOURCES ARE STRETCHED TO THE LIMIT . So in that situation I am saying the Government needs to reform who get the pass.

so a ?1.85 bus fare becomes ?2.12, they are not going to charge ?2.12, they are most certainly chafe ?2.10, so again it goes up and becomes ?2.15. 30c more to sit on the 27 with all the smack heads when it arrives every 40min instead of the advertised 10min

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