Why are commuter fares in Galway so expensive?

[MartinWright]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Fundamentally its a funding and service issue.

The Dublin Short Hop zone is a 1970's construction broadly set up around the Dublin services division of CIE (Bus and Rail for Dublin under a single manager...)

Politics has messed around with the zone so it is now much bigger than it was, Balbriggan was the first shortly after introduction

The zone that was 14 miles from the GPO is now 20 miles, what we a really needs is a set of zones as otherwise there will always be a huge gap somewhere.

Until a dedicated commuter service goes into Galway (more stations, two tracks) it is likely to stay in the intercity fares zone.

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