03-01-2008, 10:05 | #1 |
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Annual Dart Tickets expired early?
hi, has anyone else noticed that the Annual Tickets are now being rejected by the ticket Machines when the ticket states Febuary '07 - January '08 Inclusive? i don't think it's just my ticket...
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03-01-2008, 10:46 | #2 |
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the machines in Connolly were rejecting all annual tickets yesterday.
today they had them turned off and left open. |
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There are three different issuers of tickets, IE, Dublin Bus and Veoila so certain ones may be ok
Sounds like a software bug in the exit validation gates
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Most tickets would not work in at the exit in Docklands this morning
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An annual ticket of mine failed at the start of August '05 when it was valid till the start of September '05. I too was suspicious.
There was no exit validation then so I just kept the ticket for the month. |
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Bus & train tickets
My annual bus & rail ticket failed when inserted into a validator on a bus a few months back, but continued working in the validators at DART stations. I went back to Abbey Street and got a new one issued, but when I got on the next bus it told me the ticket wasn't valid. I went back to Abbey Street who didn't believe me and sent me out to check in another bus, and they eventually issued me with another ticket. It failed too next time I got on a bus. The front of the ticket clearly shows it is valid for the bus, so I just show it to the driver every time I get on a bus. My only guess is that they incorrectly programmed (3 times) the ticket as a train only one.
One of these days I will summon up the energy to go back in, but for the mean time I am just getting used to the bus validator beeping at me. Anyone else have this problem with their ticket ? z |
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The readers on the buses are notorious
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08-01-2008, 14:00 | #11 |
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i have annual bus and luas and i never put it in to the validators. i just show it to the drivers and they nod happily, sometimes pressing a button on their machines
one guy asked me to put it in the machine and i politely asked him if he was sure it wouldn't get stuck in it or ruin it and he smiled and waved me on
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Mark,
I used to get some problems with the bus validators - like maybe 1 in 10 failing, but this is now 100% failure for the last 6 weeks or so. z |
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If they keyed in the wrong code the ticket would be flagged as invalid on bus where as a defective ticket or validator will result in the ticket unreadable see driver
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This is happening with a number of the combined Bus & Rail yearly tickets issued by Irish rail for January. It's happening to 2 of us in my office so we sent a mail to Irish rail and got this response Quote:
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my annual ticket failed in connolly this morning as being invalid .. I was told by the person on duty that the gates were "broken"...
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09-01-2008, 16:14 | #16 |
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As distinct from ticket wrong side up which is normally what the validator says if it can't read it
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Yep, my new annual bus/rail from Jan hasn't worked on a bus yet. Works fine on the DART so far.
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10-01-2008, 08:12 | #18 |
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They seem to have fixed the problem (on commuter tickets anyway). My ticket started validating probably from yesterday evening.
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