Late Night Luas 2008

[Mark Gleeson]

Notices up on the trams indicates late night services till 3am will commence on November 28th.

Looks to run every Fri/Sat night

[Colm Moore]

http://www.rpa.ie/upload/documents/C...0No17_1108.pdf

CHRISTMAS & NIGHT LUAS 2008

Night Luas Trams running Sat Nov 29th, Fri Dec 5th, Sat Dec 6th, Fri Dec 12th, Sat Dec 13th, Thurs Dec 18th, Fri Dec 19th, Sat Dec 20th, Mon Dec 22nd, Tues Dec 23rd, Fri Dec 26th and Wed Dec 31st.

Night Luas operates every 30 minutes on the Red Line from 0.30am to 3.00am and on the Green Line to 3.30am.

Tickets are €4 from Luas ticket machines or Luas Smartcard fare €3.80.

Service Restrictions apply on Dec 24th, Dec 25th & Dec 26th; see www.luas.ie for details

[chris]

NightLuas and NiteLink are a joke. In Munich my monthly ticket also covers all night services. It's no wonder Luas is turning a profit.

[Colm Moore]

With Dublin Bus, annual tickets are valid on Nitelink. I don't know about Laus.

[Mark Gleeson]

Annual Luas tickets are valid on the late night services. The difference in Europe is late night services seem to be considered part of the public service obligation, all Irish operations are totally commercial.

Credit where credit is due at least the RPA and Veoila provide a service, Irish Rail probably won't

I'm fairly sure the notice on the trams quotes more dates than the RPA document

[dowlingm]

Originally Posted by chris

NightLuas and NiteLink are a joke. In Munich my monthly ticket also covers all night services.

Ditto here in Toronto.

[Mark Gleeson]

Despite the fares trams where pretty full last night

[undo]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Despite the fares trams where pretty full last night

As long as the main competition to Night Luas is an equally overpriced Nightlink, it makes sense passengers accept the €4 tickets. It would be great if both went down in price but somehow, I don't see that happening.

[chris]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Despite the fares trams where pretty full last night

I agree with undo. That's simply not the point - if they can fill a tram every half hour at €4 a pop, they would be able to fill trams every 15/20mins and still turn a profit at €2-3 - and the whole thing is supposed to be about persuading the maximum number of people to switch to public transport (within financial reason).

They also need to make the night trams a permanent feature - they're certainly allowed to run them 24 hours a day.

[Colm Moore]

http://www.rpa.ie/upload/documents/P...y%20271108.pdf