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GOOD NEWS FOR commuters within 50km of Dublin: the Leap Card zone for train tickets is being extended.
Until now, Dublin passengers with short train journeys have been able to pay using their Leap Card but those from towns further away in the commuter belt have needed to purchase a ticket.
Transport for Ireland has announced that the Leap Card area is being extended to a 50km radius starting next Monday, 28 April.
The Leap area is divided into four zones, which will have different fares applied.
In Zone 1, where train passengers were already eligible to pay with a Leap Card, the 90-minute fare will remain unchanged (€2 for Adult, €1 for Young Adult/Student and €0.65 for Child Leap Cards).
Zone 2 will cover areas including Gormanston, Skerries, Kilcock, Sallins & Naas, Greystones and Kilcoole. The fare will cost €3.90 for an Adult, €1.95 for Young Adult/Student and €1.95 for Child Leap Cards.
Drogheda, Enfield, Newbridge and Wicklow Town will be included in Zone 3 and be charged €6 for an Adult, €3 for Young Adult/Student and €3 for Child Leap Cards.
Zone 4 will be furthest from the city centre, covering areas like Kildare Town and Rathdrum at a cost of €7.50 for an Adult, €3.75 for Young Adult/Student and €3.75 for Child Leap Cards.
Irish Rail Communications Manager Barry Kenny has explained that the new fares largely won’t be reducing costs in Zone 2 but that there will be decreases for those living further out in Zones 3 and 4.
Currently, train travel between Dublin Connolly and Newbridge, for example, costs €9.85, while getting from Dublin Heuston to Kildare Town costs €9.75.
“We’re encouraging all customers who use the Leap Card to make sure to touch on and touch off for your journey, so that you aren’t charged a higher fare than you’re due,” Kenny said, speaking on RTÉ Radio One this morning.
He said that cash fares are also available for the journeys but that “Leap will always be the cheaper option”.
Changes to monthly and annual tickets will be applied “on people’s next renewal of those”.
The weekly cap for travel in all four zones for an Adult Leap Card is €67.20
Passengers will be able to buy zonal train tickets using the Leap Top-Up App from 28 April.
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That is one ugly mofo of a building
the old motor tax office behind the four courts is ugly as funk, and its also empty. I should buy it and rent out office space in it.
There is no such place as “Pearse Street Railway Station”. It is “Pearse Station” and it is on Westland Row
It’s also on pearse st. Entrance and exit on to pearse street
I believe that intersection is also known as Pedants’ Corner.
Any chance they could pay a reasonable few quid in taxes too like the rest of us or is that asking too much?
The rest of us don’t employ 1000s of people here.
So employing loads of people is negates the need to pay company tax?
Yes Liam.
The employees pay the tax.
You don’t understand how “trickle down” works?
@Ciaran. I think you’ll find SME’ (self employed) are the largest employers in Ireland after the PS.
That’s the same in most developed economies Pepper, although the problem is large MNC’s tend to have excessive leverage due to the sheer number of people they employ in a single entity. An SME pulling out or shutting down could cost a few jobs and up to hundreds while possibly crippling the business but a large MNC could easily cut thousands and continue on like nothing happened.
Exactly Jason, Also a MNC can easily move onto a new country more willing to accept them at a lower cost, so better here than in Aaia
Once the building gets a €27m makeover.
certainly good news especially after the disappointment if losing the web summit, helping endure our status as a tech hub.
You misspelled ‘tax’.
But Eircode can’t see it, lol.
It’s no nest…
have your say