Public Transport

40040D

Why is it so fricken expensive!?

Right so last weekend I was on my way home from Donegal which I paid €29.50 for a return ticket to Dublin on a bus and then I paid €22! for a single ticket on a bus from the airport to Carlow.

I'm absolutely enraged that I'm just after paying €32.50 for a one way train ticket from Sligo to Dublin Connolly, a student single on the same train line is almost a tenner in the difference! How come "adult" tickets are so expensive, its not fair !:mad:


Has anyone else found this annoying ?:(

jester77

Could always just get a bike!

TheZohanS

40040D wrote: »

Has anyone else found this annoying ?:(

Nope, it's your money to do with it as you please.

melekalikimaka

40040D wrote: »

Why is it so fricken expensive!?

Right so last weekend I was on my way home from Donegal which I paid €29.50 for a return ticket to Dublin on a bus and then I paid €22! for a single ticket on a bus from the airport to Carlow.

I'm absolutely enraged that I'm just after paying €32.50 for a one way train ticket from Sligo to Dublin Connolly, a student single on the same train line is almost a tenner in the difference! How come "adult" tickets are so expensive, its not fair !:mad:


Has anyone else found this annoying ?:(

alot of students cant work
all adults can
unless they are disabled
then they dont pay
seems fair

stovelid

Hijacking is the answer.

chin_grin

melekalikimaka wrote: »

alot of students cant work
all adults can
unless they are disabled
then they dont pay
seems fair

The public transport haiku. Brilliant.

40040D

jester77 wrote: »

Could always just get a bike!

To cycle to Donegal! ha, I'd either be fit as a fiddle or dead !

TheZohan wrote: »

Nope, it's your money to do with it as you please.

Well when you have to get from one end of the country to the other for work or whatever, education etc. its a bit of a pain, Especially when some of us can't afford a car!

TheZohanS

40040D wrote: »

Well when you have to get from one end of the country to the other for work or whatever, education etc. its a bit of a pain, Especially when some of us can't afford a car!

Were you making all those trips for work or education?

thebigbiffo

4 buses a day on my comunte (if i was getting the bus every day) would cost me €6.4 and the weekly train ticket would cost €60. that's €92 a week or €368 a month (ok, monthly train ticket would reduce that to €272) just to get to work. now i'm on a decent salary - but why would someone on the dole take a reasonably well paid job (30k a year or whatever) with that commute.

it is too expensive.

jester77

thebigbiffo wrote: »

4 buses a day on my comunte (if i was getting the bus every day) would cost me €6.4 and the weekly train ticket would cost €60. that's €92 a week or €368 a month (ok, monthly train ticket would reduce that to €272) just to get to work. now i'm on a decent salary - but why would someone on the dole take a reasonably well paid job (30k a year or whatever) with that commute.

it is too expensive.

Why would you commute like that? Besides the money, look at the amount of time it takes.

I've never lived more than 20 mins away from work (door to sitting at my desk) and never will.

40040D

TheZohan wrote: »

Were you making all those trips for work or education?

I'm in college in Donegal:o during the week and I work some weekends in Carlow/Kilkenny

Kimono-Girl

might be time to invest in private transport and buy a motor vehicle!