They can be manually calibrated by just not paying!
so they’ll have to do two manual calibrations over the next while? Haven’t been on the bus in a few days but the 90 minute promotional fare was still there on the 2nd April (due to end at the end of March). They’ll be knocking this up to 2.50. Just to knock 20% off it at that point a mere 2-3 weeks later? Haven’t heard them make any fuss over the recalibration to up prices. Maybe they will just forget about changing the promotional fare and knock 50% off the 2.30. €1.85 for unlimited travel in 90 minutes is pretty class to be fare if you are in a well connected area.
EDIT: While tbf TFI had March as the end of the promotional fare well before the government announced the 20% cut, it just seems so on brand for Ireland to have an increase in fares literally a fortnight before getting a deduction – to cancel out some of the benefit. Just like our lovely €200 euro energy credit just before what is pretty much 25% price inreases across the board.
Never heard of this when the fares go up. But sure Dublin bus showing up late is nothing new
Jesus, when they put the fares up, the machines seem to be calibrated overnight.
I find it astonishing then that Bus Eireann’s fares can be decreased as planned from Monday, **despite them using identical ticket machines** – the Wayfarer TGX150 (just without the second card reader at the door installed on Bus Eireann).
Bus Eireann have one of the most complicated bus fare systems in the world. They have singles, day returns, open returns, ten journeys for adults, students, children and families – and you can buy one ticket from almost any village or town in Ireland to another even if you have to change bus three times on the way. They have cross-border fares that include travel by Ulsterbus, which will need to be recalculated to apply the cut only to the Bus Eireann portion of the journey because Ulsterbus aren’t cutting their fares. After all the cuts are made, they have to round the fares, because cash fares ending in random numbers of cents would cause utter havoc. They have to make sure the rounding doesn’t introduce anomalies, such as two singles being cheaper than a return or an adult paying less than a student. They have to deal with updating the machines on all of the buses parked in random lay-bys up and down the country that serve rural routes nowhere near a bus garage. Yet they can make all the changes necessary by Monday.
Dublin Bus sell single tickets, with about eight different prices in total across all types of route and passenger. Their entire fleet of buses never leaves a 15-20 mile radius of Dublin. But they need a month to make the changes.
Unions, jobs for the boys/girls. God, if only our country could do anything right we would be grand. However, we fuck up (seems like) everything to do with procurement of public services.
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They can be manually calibrated by just not paying!
so they’ll have to do two manual calibrations over the next while? Haven’t been on the bus in a few days but the 90 minute promotional fare was still there on the 2nd April (due to end at the end of March). They’ll be knocking this up to 2.50. Just to knock 20% off it at that point a mere 2-3 weeks later? Haven’t heard them make any fuss over the recalibration to up prices. Maybe they will just forget about changing the promotional fare and knock 50% off the 2.30. €1.85 for unlimited travel in 90 minutes is pretty class to be fare if you are in a well connected area.
EDIT: While tbf TFI had March as the end of the promotional fare well before the government announced the 20% cut, it just seems so on brand for Ireland to have an increase in fares literally a fortnight before getting a deduction – to cancel out some of the benefit. Just like our lovely €200 euro energy credit just before what is pretty much 25% price inreases across the board.
Never heard of this when the fares go up. But sure Dublin bus showing up late is nothing new
Jesus, when they put the fares up, the machines seem to be calibrated overnight.
I find it astonishing then that Bus Eireann’s fares can be decreased as planned from Monday, **despite them using identical ticket machines** – the Wayfarer TGX150 (just without the second card reader at the door installed on Bus Eireann).
Bus Eireann have one of the most complicated bus fare systems in the world. They have singles, day returns, open returns, ten journeys for adults, students, children and families – and you can buy one ticket from almost any village or town in Ireland to another even if you have to change bus three times on the way. They have cross-border fares that include travel by Ulsterbus, which will need to be recalculated to apply the cut only to the Bus Eireann portion of the journey because Ulsterbus aren’t cutting their fares. After all the cuts are made, they have to round the fares, because cash fares ending in random numbers of cents would cause utter havoc. They have to make sure the rounding doesn’t introduce anomalies, such as two singles being cheaper than a return or an adult paying less than a student. They have to deal with updating the machines on all of the buses parked in random lay-bys up and down the country that serve rural routes nowhere near a bus garage. Yet they can make all the changes necessary by Monday.
Dublin Bus sell single tickets, with about eight different prices in total across all types of route and passenger. Their entire fleet of buses never leaves a 15-20 mile radius of Dublin. But they need a month to make the changes.
Unions, jobs for the boys/girls. God, if only our country could do anything right we would be grand. However, we fuck up (seems like) everything to do with procurement of public services.