The Leap Card Thread

[Mark Gleeson]

It is a soft launch a formal announcement is due in early December

[jacko]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

It is a soft launch a formal announcement is due in early December

The reason for the lack of publicity is that until the cash fare increase takes effect next week the leap return fare is more expensive!

Cork/Cobh is 8.50 cash return.

Leap is 4.65 each way

[Mark Gleeson]

Is actually 9.20 return on Leap as there is a 9.20 day cap on Irish Rail Leap fares in Cork

4.65 is the NTA approved fare

[jacko]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Is actually 9.20 return on Leap as there is a 9.20 day cap on Irish Rail Leap fares in Cork

4.65 is the NTA approved fare

Hardly a great marketing ploy to induce cork rail commuters to migrate to Leap

[Mark Gleeson]

Cash single fare will be 6.05 on launch

[bg07]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Is actually 9.20 return on Leap as there is a 9.20 day cap on Irish Rail Leap fares in Cork

4.65 is the NTA approved fare

Does the weekly cap apply in Cork as well?

Are the cap amounts (daily and weekly if applicable) tied to the irish rail SHZ ones in Dublin? I presume there is a limit in how many different cap balances a leap card can handle

[OisinDunne]

Anyone know of the plans to extend Leap Card to Drogheda. Leap people told me 2 years ago that "2 years approx."
Not even a whisper since. Would this coincide with extending the SHZ to Drogheda? Anyone got any view/insight?

[Mark Gleeson]

No plans to extend Leap to Drogheda exist

Season tickets are supported already to Dundalk

[Eddie]

Just found this on the Leap Card website.

A family of up to 2 adults and 4 children can use buses, luas an Darts for a tenner, including Airlink and Nitelink for €10.

What's going on here?

https://about.leapcard.ie/leap-family-card.

Available from 1 March and must be used by the end of the year, with a maximum of 2 cards per order.

[comcor]

Is this definitely fully launched for cash fares in Cork?

I need to go to Midleton tomorrow and am presuming my LEAP Card (Cork bus ticket plus a cash balance from when I've used it in Dublin) will work.

[berneyarms]

Originally Posted by comcor

Is this definitely fully launched for cash fares in Cork?

I need to go to Midleton tomorrow and am presuming my LEAP Card (Cork bus ticket plus a cash balance from when I've used it in Dublin) will work.

Yes it is.

https://about.leapcard.ie/cork

[James Shields]

Hope this is appropriate place to post this.

New family Leap cards for €10 for 24 hours:

https://about.leapcard.ie/leap-family-card

Covers Dart, Short Hop Commuter, Luas, Dublin Bus (including Airlink and Nitelink) and Bus Eireann "Red Zone".

I hadn't heard of Red Zone, so I went looking and found this:

http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1380638...d-Brochure.pdf

Great to see BE adopting a zonal system, but there's still a vast discrepancy in fares charged. For example Drogheda and Navan are both in the blue zone, and similar distances from Dublin, but cash fares are €8.00 to Drogheda but €14.30 to Navan. Leap card fares are €7.80 and €11.44 respectively.

Sorry this is moving away from rail, but if they adopt a zone system, shouldn't they apply it to all relevant fares?

James

[berneyarms]

Originally Posted by jacko

The reason for the lack of publicity is that until the cash fare increase takes effect next week the leap return fare is more expensive!

Cork/Cobh is 8.50 cash return.

Leap is 4.65 each way

When the revised fares take effect, the fares for Cork/Cobh will be:

Single - Cash €6.05 / LEAP €4.65
Return - Cash €9.90 / LEAP €9.20 (capped)