From www.rte.ie.
The Minister for Transport, Séamus Brennan, is to present proposals to the Government within the next few weeks to increase bus and rail fares in line with inflation, which currently stands at 2.3%.
It is understood that the increases will come into effect in the New Year.
A spokeswoman for the minister also confirmed that future fare rises would be made on an annual basis and would be linked to inflation.
Last December, Mr Brennan granted CIE a 9% increase in fares, the first increase in eight years.
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Off we go again.....
hats the bets we see more nonsense about 83c 1.27.1.49 1.71 etc etc.....
Remember that BAC attempted to reduce and greatly simplify its fare structure in the wake of the Euro introduction.
the net result would have been to see a single fare of 1Euro covering the majority of journeys BUT the real improvement would have been in the speed of boarding with a single-coin strategy.
The simple plan was abandoned with great haste following telephone calls from the Dept to the Chairman of CIE and his subsequent directive to BAC management.
What the Gentleman SHOULD have told his Departmental Persecutor was to Butt-Out and water the window box.
Instead we are left to flounder in a gridlocked City with Busdrivers still operating as conductors and boy are the travelling public paying for this nonsense in terms of wasted time !!!Posted 4 years ago # -
Funny enough, New Jersey Transit is trying the same ploy insofar as raising bus fares to “keep up with inflation” (of course, the real reason being the same as Brennan’s, that of avoiding increasing the subsidy and possibly using the fare revenue to cover more expenses, but most likely to get more money into their pockets).
Of course, nobody would think to introduce a flat fare at this juncture, no…? Everyone still thinks that copying London is the way to go…I still advise them to copy New York, it is still the easiest and most efficient fare structure that I have ever seen yet…Posted 4 years ago #
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