Call for Europe-wide lower price tickets to address climate and energy crises
Greenpeace EU transport campaigner Lorelei Limousin said:
Dublin scored 36 out of 100 points in the city rankings. It “is the only city analysed which does not have a fixed-price long-term ticket for all means of transport and available for all passengers”. Dublin has an electronic ticketing system, it acknowledges, with weekly payments recently capped at €32. Greenpeace has taken this price as the basis for the ranking, in the absence of a monthly ticket. Nevertheless, the regular price is the second-highest out of all cities analysed, it says – with €3.16 per day after the price level adjustment. The weekly cap for students is half of the one for adults. Seniors over 66 years old travel for free all across Ireland.
Public transport tickets in the EU are taxed at an average of 11 per cent VAT, higher than many other basic services and necessities, though in Ireland public transport tickets are exempted.
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