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Children! FREE travel!

  • 01-08-2014 12:42pm
    #1
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭


    It is surely worth underlining the Leapcard Initiative for the New Child Leapcard running from the 11th August until 24th August.

    http://childleapcard.ie/

    All CHILD Leapcard users travel FREE :D

    Of course if a 16 year old really does want to make that step into the Adult World,then all they have to do is rummage around for coins,thereby stating their claim to a €3.05 14 Stager....no problem Boss :)


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



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  • #2
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    The fact that there are "stocks" of child Leapcards and that these might "last" seems odd...

    I mean if the leapcard is to provide an integrated ticketing system, it should be better than cash. I never heard of people spending cash "While stocks last" and I'd have thought there's be leapcards made for people for the foreseeable future...

    Does this mean that any number of three to zero aged children are free on leap services?


  • #3
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,165 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    its the free cards that are "while stocks last"

    you'll still be able to buy a leap card after the free ones have run out.

    kids under 4 are free anyway, don't need any form of ticket.


  • #4
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    loyatemu wrote: »
    kids under 4 are free anyway, don't need any form of ticket.

    On Irish Rail but not all other services.


  • #5
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Which ones?


  • #6
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    Which ones?

    On Luas you have to pay for children after their third birthday: http://www.luas.ie/child-tickets.html

    On Irish Rail it's children under 5s free on intercity only -- Dart and Commuter the cutoff is under 3: http://www.irishrail.ie/contact-us/faqs?i=4256

    Dublin Bus it's under 4s: http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/fares--tickets/fare-information/

    On BE it's under 3s: http://m.buseireann.ie/index.php?id=237#li_237


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  • #7
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,523 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    ^ nice to see there's a standard anyway...


  • #8
    MGWR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭MGWR


    More gimmicks to force the leap card instead of letting passengers vote with their feet.


  • #9
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    loyatemu wrote: »
    its the free cards that are "while stocks last"

    you'll still be able to buy a leap card after the free ones have run out.

    kids under 4 are free anyway, don't need any form of ticket.

    Unregistered leap cards are fungible.

    If the nta said they had a limited amount of free cards, that would be better/ more truthful


  • #10
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    People seemed initally unaware of this but were quickly onto their smartphones to investigate further on the 44 bus I was on yesterday where the driver was explaining it over the microphone.

    Give that man a job in marketing:pac:


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