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LEAP cards now work on the city buses

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    #152
    Cocolola
    Registered Users Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Cocolola


    what_traffic wrote: »
    Can now top-up leapcard using an NFC phone.
    https://about.leapcard.ie/about/using-leap

    Neat.


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    #153
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,849 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Do many use the Leap Card on the buses?


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    #154
    GDSGR8
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    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    Do many use the Leap Card on the buses?

    I bought one recently enough, it's great. I get a lovely feeling of smug satisfaction knowing I'm paying €1.60 when all the other schmucks are paying €2.10. I use the LUAS and Dublin Bus fairly regularly as well making it particularly attractive. And when the machines aren't working I get free journeys. Sweet as.


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    #155
    Mrs OBumble
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    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    Do many use the Leap Card on the buses?


    No. Only the smart ones.


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    #156
    what_traffic
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    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    Do many use the Leap Card on the buses?

    Not many, but it is very handy. An issue in Galway City (and I presume Limerick is the same) compared with Dublin Bus usage is that you have to give the card to the bus driver at his paystation. Would speed up boarding onto the bus if one could tag the card on the right hand side as one gets on the bus. Galway has a much simplier and flat fare system that would make this work.


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    #157
    Victor
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    what_traffic wrote: »
    Would speed up alighting onto the bus

    One boards onto the bus.

    One alights from the bus.

    Some London trams had signage that said "Passengers alight at both ends".

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    #158
    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    what_traffic wrote: »
    Not many, but it is very handy. An issue in Galway City (and I presume Limerick is the same) compared with Dublin Bus usage is that you have to give the card to the bus driver at his paystation. Would speed up boarding onto the bus if one could tag the card on the right hand side as one gets on the bus. Galway has a much simplier and flat fare system that would make this work.

    You have to do that with some leap cards (for single ticket fare, no commuter tickets I think) everywhere. It's a bit faster than Galway but in Dublin for me, it's a 'leave on for a sec' tag beside the driver.


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    #159
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,849 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    what_traffic wrote: »
    Not many, but it is very handy. An issue in Galway City (and I presume Limerick is the same) compared with Dublin Bus usage is that you have to give the card to the bus driver at his paystation. Would speed up boarding onto the bus if one could tag the card on the right hand side as one gets on the bus. Galway has a much simplier and flat fare system that would make this work.

    Yeah, it's the same here in Limerick. So unnecessary to interact with the driver when it's a flat fare.


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    #160
    Tuesday_Girl
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭Tuesday_Girl


    In Dublin last week I had to place it on the reader beside the driver and tell him where I was going each time I boarded a bus. He then punched that in and I took my card back, bit slower than just scanning it myself.


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    #161
    [Deleted User]
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    Tuesday_Girl wrote: »
    In Dublin last week I had to place it on the reader beside the driver and tell him where I was going each time I boarded a bus. He then punched that in and I took my card back, bit slower than just scanning it myself.

    It largely depends on where you're going. On Dublin bus they have scanners -- you'd use these if you have a weekly/monthly tickets/tax saver ticket, where the fare doesn't matter as such. If you scan your regular leap card on it, you'll be charged the full amount for that route, which might be near €4, whereas the distance you actually want to go might be over €2. If that makes sense? This is why you'd go to the bus driver.

    With Galway though, where the fare applies to all areas within the city (?), there should just be the scanner.


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    #162
    Mrs OBumble
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »

    With Galway though, where the fare applies to all areas within the city (?), there should just be the scanner.

    Not quite.

    CityDirect have three fare zones for adults.

    Bus Éireann have two - but the 2nd one only applies on route 410, and even then only for part of it.


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    #163
    [Deleted User]
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    Do the CityDirect buses use the leap card or does that only apply to Bus Eireann services?


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    #164
    Cheshire Cat
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    CityDirect do use the leap card.


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    #165
    Tuesday_Girl
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It largely depends on where you're going. On Dublin bus they have scanners -- you'd use these if you have a weekly/monthly tickets/tax saver ticket, where the fare doesn't matter as such. If you scan your regular leap card on it, you'll be charged the full amount for that route, which might be near €4, whereas the distance you actually want to go might be over €2. If that makes sense? This is why you'd go to the bus driver.

    With Galway though, where the fare applies to all areas within the city (?), there should just be the scanner.

    Yeah I get why they do it, it just takes some time as you have to queue with everyone else, show the card to the reader, tell the driver where you're going, wait for him to punch that in and then wait for the card to update. It's slower than buying a ticket.

    I've used similar systems abroad, you scan getting on and again getting off and the fare is calculated on distance travelled with no interaction ever needed from the driver.

    Anyway, not complaining as it works out a lot cheaper for me and it's more convenient than having to carry cash for tickets.


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