Three out of four passengers will not see an increase in public transport charges in Ireland next year.
The following fares will apply across the country from 1 December.
Dublin Bus
- Schoolchild Leap fares to rise by 2c
- Adult cash and Leap fares, regular child, schoolchild cash and Dublin Bus only monthlies and annuals will see no change.
- Multi-operator monthlies and annuals will cost 1.9% and 2.3% more respectively.
Luas
- 2017 will see the merging of adult and student zone 3 and zone 4 fares. Zone 3 fares increasing by up to 7.4% with zone 4 fares dropping by up to 4.2%.
- Adult single cash fares will increase by between 10c and 20c. A child return will go up 10c.
- No change to child single cash or Leap fares.
- Monthly and annual fares have been increased for the first time since January 2013.
Iarnród Éireann
- No change to Intercity single and return fares. However, Intercity adult and child weekly fares will rise by 2%.
- Sallins/Naas and Kilcock stations to relocate from the Intercity Zone into the Dublin Short Hop Zone, with saving of almost 50%.
- Short Hop Zone DART and Commuter Fares for the DART are also to increase 10 cent.
- In Cork, commuter fares to increase by between 1.5% to 2% – except for top zone which remains at current fares.
Bus Éireann
- Single stage carriage fares to stay the same, as will all child and student stage carriage fares.
Anne Graham, CEO of the National Transport Authority said: “Today we are taking a significant step towards making our public transport fare structure simpler, more streamlined and more consistent.
“We believe that the prices people pay should accurately reflect the journeys they’re making.
“We’re also endeavoring to cut back on the wide array of different fare types, stages and products, so that cost of travel is easier to understand for the passenger.
“It’s also important for us to continue to incentivise people to choose Leap card to pay for their travel – by maintaining a substantial price differential between Leap fares and cash fares.
“Leap Card is now used to pay for some 3.5m public transport journeys in Ireland every week – representing about €4.3m in electronic transactions. These are cheaper for the operators to manage, and mean that the passenger benefits from shorter wait-times and better value fares.
“Leap will always be at least 20% cheaper than cash for a single journey”.
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