Thee 9euro ticket in Germany was great and did reduce private vehicle use, but was an absolute mess in terms of organisation, overcrowding and delays for hours. Ireland doesn’t have the infrastructure just yet.
Irish rail will move the maynooth to conolly 4.01pm train back to 3.55pm on the 11th December.
Some of the impressive lengths our state goes to make our lives that much easier goes unnoticed.
Cost has absolutely nothing to do with why I rarely use public transport.
If it ever becomes reliable and safe, I’ll use it. But it has to be both.
They should have raised the carbon tax and provided more lower cost public transport in tandem but that’s not what Fine Gael want. They just want the benefits of the carbon tax but none of the actual hard sacrifice of climate action.
Well of course he does.
A State car free of charge and Garda drivers for Leo; junkies shooting up at the table next to us on a 20 minute journey that costs an hours wages for us.
The biggest barrier to public transport use is how shit it is, not the cost
I think €9 a month is unrealistic but how about a cap on how much you can spend on public transport in a week i.e. €15?
Let’s try it for a few months and see how it goes!
What’s the estimated total cost to the state if this was brought in?
😫 Leo please ..you absolute w@nker
Assuming this is €9 per person? Probably on top of whatever else were paying but I’d pay it
There should be a cap within areas/counties. The greater Dublin area should be capped at 15€ per week for example, to address inequalities across the network.
I’d much rather see them take the millions it would cost to implement this and invest it in more trains and buses for higher frequency and much needed improvements to the rail line and more rail lines.
There are huge housing estates being built all along the rail lines and no infrastructure improvements to go with them, it’s going to make even more traffic crazy car-dependent shitholes.
The solution to the housing crisis is to build new rail lines to allow more land to service Dublin city centre, but of course they’ll never do it.
Geebag
Reduces cost of living, decreases carbon emissions.
Leo : “Straight out of SF handbook”
but wait, thought fg was the party for people who wake up in the morning
Laughing at everyone thinking Dublin in the centre of the universe…ye all know there are places people live that is outside of Dublin right? Fucking shambles!
€9 a month unlimited public transport and 24 hour bus and trains?
Housing crisis solved.
€9 in Dublin maybe cause fuck all transport elsewhere
reminder that tommy shlug was an €18 ticket after the incident with yormas (not your ma’s) in koblenz.
never forget #18euroticket #casualmode
Twat.
Why does that man have to urge to wave to photographers at every moment. It’s not like anyone is really going to wave back at him like.
Of course he did, it would make people’s lives better
The problems with Public Transport in Ireland isn’t cost, it’s capacity. Even if you made it free, more people won’t use it because they literally can’t, there’s no room. The NTA are charging €2 for a ninety minute fare, and during the morning and evening rush hours almost every bus is full, which shows that cost isn’t just isn’t a factor. We need to invest more in public transport, but rather than a lower cost, this should take the form of increased capacity, more frequent services, and new bus and train routes.
I’d be in favour of free public transport during off peak hours, as that’s when there’s free capacity on services. This would probably have roughly the same impact on the number of car journeys as free public transport full time, as people are already trying to avoid the traffic in the rush hours, but they don’t need to avoid it during the off peak times. Free off peak journeys made tip that scale for people.
Honestly I’d rather they put the millions into increasing frequency and pure infrastructure rather than making it free. That’s what we really need to increase transport usage. I’m living in Prague atm and the network here with trams and such is light years ahead of anything in Ireland. It honestly makes it so much more convenient to take a tram or the metro there’s no point in using a car.
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Is it Germany that’s doing that at the minute?
Thee 9euro ticket in Germany was great and did reduce private vehicle use, but was an absolute mess in terms of organisation, overcrowding and delays for hours. Ireland doesn’t have the infrastructure just yet.
Irish rail will move the maynooth to conolly 4.01pm train back to 3.55pm on the 11th December.
Some of the impressive lengths our state goes to make our lives that much easier goes unnoticed.
Cost has absolutely nothing to do with why I rarely use public transport.
If it ever becomes reliable and safe, I’ll use it. But it has to be both.
They should have raised the carbon tax and provided more lower cost public transport in tandem but that’s not what Fine Gael want. They just want the benefits of the carbon tax but none of the actual hard sacrifice of climate action.
Well of course he does.
A State car free of charge and Garda drivers for Leo; junkies shooting up at the table next to us on a 20 minute journey that costs an hours wages for us.
The biggest barrier to public transport use is how shit it is, not the cost
I think €9 a month is unrealistic but how about a cap on how much you can spend on public transport in a week i.e. €15?
Let’s try it for a few months and see how it goes!
What’s the estimated total cost to the state if this was brought in?
😫 Leo please ..you absolute w@nker
Assuming this is €9 per person? Probably on top of whatever else were paying but I’d pay it
There should be a cap within areas/counties. The greater Dublin area should be capped at 15€ per week for example, to address inequalities across the network.
I’d much rather see them take the millions it would cost to implement this and invest it in more trains and buses for higher frequency and much needed improvements to the rail line and more rail lines.
There are huge housing estates being built all along the rail lines and no infrastructure improvements to go with them, it’s going to make even more traffic crazy car-dependent shitholes.
The solution to the housing crisis is to build new rail lines to allow more land to service Dublin city centre, but of course they’ll never do it.
Geebag
Reduces cost of living, decreases carbon emissions.
Leo : “Straight out of SF handbook”
but wait, thought fg was the party for people who wake up in the morning
Laughing at everyone thinking Dublin in the centre of the universe…ye all know there are places people live that is outside of Dublin right? Fucking shambles!
€9 a month unlimited public transport and 24 hour bus and trains?
Housing crisis solved.
€9 in Dublin maybe cause fuck all transport elsewhere
reminder that tommy shlug was an €18 ticket after the incident with yormas (not your ma’s) in koblenz.
never forget #18euroticket #casualmode
Twat.
Why does that man have to urge to wave to photographers at every moment. It’s not like anyone is really going to wave back at him like.
Of course he did, it would make people’s lives better
The problems with Public Transport in Ireland isn’t cost, it’s capacity. Even if you made it free, more people won’t use it because they literally can’t, there’s no room. The NTA are charging €2 for a ninety minute fare, and during the morning and evening rush hours almost every bus is full, which shows that cost isn’t just isn’t a factor. We need to invest more in public transport, but rather than a lower cost, this should take the form of increased capacity, more frequent services, and new bus and train routes.
I’d be in favour of free public transport during off peak hours, as that’s when there’s free capacity on services. This would probably have roughly the same impact on the number of car journeys as free public transport full time, as people are already trying to avoid the traffic in the rush hours, but they don’t need to avoid it during the off peak times. Free off peak journeys made tip that scale for people.
Honestly I’d rather they put the millions into increasing frequency and pure infrastructure rather than making it free. That’s what we really need to increase transport usage. I’m living in Prague atm and the network here with trams and such is light years ahead of anything in Ireland. It honestly makes it so much more convenient to take a tram or the metro there’s no point in using a car.
Well of course he did, he is a bellend