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Unread 28-07-2016, 16:25   #60
James Shields
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In the same way that computer applications expand to fill the available memory and disk space, it's also true that mobile phone applications expand to consume the phone's available power! It's very easy to find your phone running low at the end of a night out. At present that just means you can't catch up with Facebook or catch silly pokemon on the way home, but if you find you can't get on the train either, that's a real problem.

But it's a completely separate problem from the one of our insane non-zonal fare system. It really needs the DOT/TFI to impose a common zone system on the main transport operators along with sensible transfers. For example, if a passenger takes a train from Maynooth to Broombridge, then changes to a Luas to Stephen's Green, they should be charged a single fare for the whole journey, and the system should work out how much of that fare should go to each operator.

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