Dublin Bus issued this statement yesterday with effect from tomorrow
Revised Prepaid Fares - Dublin Bus
they are trying to encourage people to use the bus and use pre paid tickets yet they slip in a 5% fare increase when no one is looking
Where are the Greens ?
i bet you they'll approve of this for some spurious reason.
A poster of some consequence...
Do you think that the price of public transport is prohibitively high in Dublin when compared to similar European cities?
Yes - weekly and monthly tickets are much more expensive than cities all over Europe (except the UK)Originally Posted by Bebsaboo
Also, we are being told that we can live on less pay and less welfare because prices are going down - obviously no one told Dublin Bus
And of course if they didn't put up prices we'd be reading how they are losing money. Semi state companies must provide services for nothing but still make more profit than the private sector.
I wonder what the justification for the price increases is. Higher fuel costs maybe?
Taxpayers fork out for Anglos cozy loans.
Commuters fork out for Dublin Buses missing millions.
All made possible by the Governments continued practice of protecting those with their hands in the till, by simply not doing their job.
... and the Greens? Sure everyone should cycle where ever they need to go.
they are only putting up the price of prepaid tickets which makes things worse as they are the more flexible and efficent way of running public transport and encouraging people to use buses
How much does a monthly ticket cost, when living in a large German city I paid a monthly €56, this covered all S, U-Bahn, ferries & buses in the Grosbereich or greater city area and weekends a friend could travel with me for free and also on weekends the entire network was included, which stretched to 4 ringe out side the city. And my bicycle came for free also!
Great value I thought but then buses and s bahn were on time without fail.
“It is better to be human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.” John Stuart Mill
At first glance these are very slight increases and in some cases there is even no rise at all. What's the point of this thread ? To stir up melodramatics from the fascist blueshirt-wearing public-service-haters ? Moaning Ireland are going to go up to high dooh with this non-story first thing Monday monring.
Go away and find a real story that really has some impact on people's daily lives.
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