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26-01-2012, 14:51 | #1 |
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There's another curious anomaly - the 'commuter' segments of the Dublin-Cork and Dublin-Dundalk lines are counted as express for Intercity fare calculation purposes but the Dublin-Maynooth section on the Dublin-Sligo line isn't.
In addition, the mileage calculations used for the Northern line are out of whack. Drogheda-Dublin Pearse is a distance of around 53 kilometres by rail and should be counted as a class D fare (up to 64km) not a class E fare (up to 80km). Dundalk-Connolly is 86 kilometres by rail and should be counted as a class F fare rather than a class G one. This has an extremely negative effect on fares from those destinations - a single from Dundalk-Connolly should be €5 cheaper if the correct mileage is used. Unless there is a secret Northern Line premium in their figures... |
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There is a strong suspicion that some station pairs use incorrect distances.
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RTE's take on it : "65% of train fares to increase next month"
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0126/trainfares.html |
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30% go down and 5% remain the same
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It doesn't but for a passenger the fact 30% go down is seriously good news. Indeed the bulk of the reductions are on routes where the fares are considered over priced
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http://www.irishrail.ie/cat_news.jsp?i=4465&p=116&n=237
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Is there any way of making the NTA aware of this? After all, it isn't hard to calculate out the correct distances - the rather large mileposts along the routes should assist them considerably.
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The NTA are well aware of the strange fares and distance issue.
MVA who did the study used our investigation http://www.railusers.ie/news/news.ph...2008&no=6.html as a source document to the study.
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What about day saver fares for example Tue-Thur €37 before 11am Thurles-Heuston. or the Mon-Sat €18.50 day return to Limerick. Will these now be abolished?
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26-01-2012, 21:01 | #11 |
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Not necessarily. Irish Rail are still allowed do discounts and promotional fares, so some of them will stay.
However, hopefully some of the worst abuses, e.g. different fares for each direction, will not be allowed stay.
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If they keep day saver return @ €18.50 to Limerick and now that 5 day return is to be abolished soon for day return, won't everybody Mon-Sat just buy the day saver. Hoping they will keep these offers anyway as I like taking the day trip to Dublin once a week and my gf lives in Limerick so i spend a lot of time going down to hers in the evenings for a few hours when i get off work. Will cost me an extra €2.30 on monthly return going to hers every weekend now that the 5 day return is to be abolished but the increase could have been much worst.
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