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Originally Posted by chris
Increase the price of one-off monthlies marginally to stop people taking advantage. Potentially decrease the price of these renewed monthlies by a corresponding amount so there are no complaints that IE benefits financially from the new system.
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Why bother fiddling with the price? If a ticket were valid for, say, 34 days but remained at 100% price, it still wouldn't be possible for people to buy more than one monthly ticket per month. The advantage of a "grace period" is that sales of monthly tickets get spread over a few days; there shouldn't be any loss of revenue.
I like the suggestion of up to 10am the next day. One of my little bug-bears is that you can't buy weekly luas tickets the night before they start. Compounding this is the fact that the cheaper versions are only available from shops (and not platform ticket machines). The shop associated with the Dundrum station is neither beside the station, nor along my walk to the station. There is also no shop near Heuston.