From Monday, September 1, children under 18 travelling on public transport within the Dublin Commuter Leap Fare Zone will be eligible for a 67pc discount compared with adult fares.<\/p>\n
The move brings outer suburban areas into line with the discounts already available within the Dublin City Zone.<\/p>\n
The change follows a series of fare adjustments earlier this year, which redrew boundaries to create four new Leap fare zones across Dublin and its surrounding commuter belt.<\/p>\n
The NTA says the new structure is designed to make travel more affordable for families and encourage greater use of public transport.<\/p>\n
The discount applies to daily, weekly and monthly Child Leap products and can be purchased via the Leap top-up app or at leapcard.ie.<\/p>\n
Among the towns set to benefit are Balbriggan, Skerries, Greystones, Kilcoole, Kilcock and Sallins\/Naas, all within Zone 2 of the new commuter structure.<\/p>\n
At present, children using a weekly Leap product for journeys to Dublin city centre pay \u20ac16. From Monday, the cost will fall to \u20ac10.60 \u2014 a saving of \u20ac5.40, or 33pc.<\/p>\n
The revised fares will also allow children travelling in from Zones 2, 3 and 4 to continue their journey within the city centre at no extra charge, whether by train, Luas or Dublin Bus services.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Ryan, Director of Public Transport Services at the NTA, said the move was introduced following feedback from families across commuter towns.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve heard from families and communities across the new commuter zones, and we\u2019ve listened,\u201d he said. \u201cBy aligning child fare discounts across Zones 2, 3 and 4 with those in Dublin City, we\u2019re making public transport more affordable and accessible for young people, wherever they live. It\u2019s a meaningful step toward a more inclusive and connected transport network.\u201d<\/p>\n
Interim discounts will also apply to weekly products as part of the NTA\u2019s broader fare strategy.<\/p>\n
Further details on the revised child products are available at leapcard.ie or through the Leap top-up app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Monday, September 1, children under 18 travelling on public transport within the Dublin Commuter Leap Fare Zone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,11802,18,17640,19,17,1842],"class_list":{"0":"post-33647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dublin-bus","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-iarnrod-eireann-irish-rail","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sarah-burke"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}