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  • #52
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    bluezulu49 wrote: »
    You appear to be confusing two different schemes for free travel, one is for free travel of the spouse aged under 66 of a person over 66, the other is for the companion of a person who cannot travel alone.

    See 3.4 and 3.5 on the attached.

    Eh no I'm not confused or confusing it it's there in black and white if you want I can link the actual part I posted.

    If one qualified for a companion pass then they are deemed to need a companion to travel with them for the reasons they gave for the pass in the first place.

    There are very strict rules and guide lines but to be honest from some of the stuff I've seen there are plenty that seem to get through....

    Fully aware not all disabilities are visual as in that can be seen and many other reasons.

    I've absolutely no issue with genuine cases whatsoever and back the system to a degree but what one can qualify under is now so broad it's getting out of hand.

    I have come across many young and old abusing the system while bringing their mates etc on their spouse pass.

    P on a pass is single as in pass holder only and the amount that try to use this to bring mates on is done quite regularly.

    S is spouse, cohabitant, civil partner.

    Companion over 16 years of age.
    Thing with these now kids have them and try to bring their mates as a companion when we'll under 16.

    So much abuse is widespread and even with the new ones.


  • #53
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,024 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Punisher, you give the impression that you would like to use the thread to grouse about perceived issues and injustices with the system, and you keep moving the goalposts about which kind of pass you are discussing.

    This is a thread which could offer useful information to people, please keep to facts rather than social rants.


  • #54
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    looksee wrote: »
    Punisher, you give the impression that you would like to use the thread to grouse about perceived issues and injustices with the system, and you keep moving the goalposts about which kind of pass you are discussing.

    This is a thread which could offer useful information to people, please keep to facts rather than social rants.

    I in no way meant it to be or was I attacking anyone.

    A previous poster stated I was wrong which I wasn't so I was making my point clear.


    I have absolutely no issue if what you say is how you see it and it ain't meant to be so.

    If you want to remove my post I have no problem at all and I have contributed and have no issue helping others out with questions.


  • #55
    joeysoap
    Registered Users Posts: 6,259 ✭✭✭joeysoap


    The enterprise from Dundalk on Friday, was as expected, full to the door, so standing only. The Luas to Heuston was good, plenty of seats at Connolly. The 1.35 to Galway was pretty boooked out but we found two seats not booked .3 seats were vacant but seat 52 suddenly displayed booked after we sat down however at no stage did anyone sit there. Was a bit of commotion further down the carriage over booked seats , but it was sorted fairly quickly. Unfortunately there seemed to be passengers all around us coughing and sneezing all the time.

    Oranmore on the way home was unmanned and we just got on the train. Again seats mostly booked, but again we found 2 together(not opposite each other) so it was grand. Nobody looked for tickets, and at Heuston the two of us got through the barrier on the one swipe. Actually it closed on me but opened wide on contact immediately. Luas was jammers as there was hundreds from that train alone getting on. At Connolly I got two tickets for Dundalk . I had no tickets up to then.
    The Enterprise was fairly full but there was seats , (surprised how many booked)

    4 other passengers got on at Oranmore so I don’t know how they got through the barriers without tickets (unlikely they were free travel looking at their ages). They may have left the train before Dublin.


    Would I do it again ? Yes. But not at weekend.

    FTP is great, and I am very grateful for it As I don’t enjoy driving as much as I used to. I can travel midweek and off peak, and that’s what I will try and do in the future.


  • #56
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I have recently purchased a senior citizens railcard which ccost a few pounds moe than a disabled persons railcard, but was a lot easier to buy. the good new is that although I live in UK I can use it to travel to various places in Ireland too. not too sure how mucj=h it helps me to save though, but at least it may prove to be useful.


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