New public transport fare structure to avoid 'cliff-edge' outside Dublin.
"While it is broadly calculated by distance, the zones they use are not all the same length.
"If you look at the numbers, particularly around places like Kildare and Drogheda, it seems almost as if the fare structure was designed to increase the fare for people who are travelling in from those outer hinterlands of Dublin.'Intolerable and unacceptable'"There's this kind of cliff you fall off when you leave the Dublin suburban area, and the fares switch to inter-city even though you're a commuter," he said.
"If you're coming from somewhere like Newbridge to Dublin [it's] €10.85 - whereas the next station up is only €3.'Simpler to implement' Mr Gleeson said a similar strategy was published for inter-city fares a decade ago"and little, if any, of that was adopted.""So the transport operators themselves have no say in what the fares are or how they're calculated."So this should be simpler to implement, and there is huge political and local support to throw away the current system".
The NTA has said it hopes to implement revised fare structures in the Dublin commuter area"as a priority."Main image: A woman paying for public transport through contactless. Image: Zoonar GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo
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