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[Article] Pay and Display on the way
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I noticed this in todays paper. http://www.independent.ie/national-n...r-1434382.html Seems like IR are not content to provide an appalling service but now want to charge people for parking at park and rides too. Barry Kenny claims that the charging wont have any impact on the number of commuters...of course it wont...most of the affected people dont have any other choice..its the train or nothing. this is an absolute disgrace. In affect most people now have to pay higher transport costs because of this. With this charge it is now nearly as cheap for me and my girlfriend to drive to heuston and park there for the day and walk to city centre. So much for the government policy of trying to encourage people to use public transport!! |
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[Article] Pay and Display on the way
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If you live in Gormanston you pay €5 a week, but the new plan is to charge €8 at further stations where charges are applied. Its a different company to the one currently used.
So 48 week year at €8 per week €384 which is 43% increase over the normal Dublin rail annual ticket of €890 I quite deliberately did my piece for TV3 from Booterstown car park, they tried to charge there before, it didn't happen. http://www.railusers.ie/campaigns/carparking/
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this has basically negated the taxsaver fare! I live over 6 miles from the station and we are a two car family because of the lack of creche facilities... based on this we will have now start driving to dublin every day. can you cancel a commutter ticket because of this??
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New parking charges Mullingar/ Longford
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...breaking34.htm
So we are now going to have to pay another 400-500 euros per month for the pleasure of parking in a carpark in Mullingar with no tar, no correct road markings and no security cameras... How is this appropriate or acceptable. Does Irish Rail have free range to do what they want, the government apparently opposed it but still it is going to happen this autumn!!! Why can't we stand up to this. One thing is for sure, I will no longer commuter if this comes in, I am at the end of my tether and sick to death of incompetent IR.
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Not sure if there another thread on which I should post this but....Carparks at rail stations seem to discourage overnight parking. From my perspective it seems one can only purchase a single days parking or an €8 weekly ticket. Having purchased a day return ticket recently for a trip from Kildare to Galway I found I needed to stay overnight but remembering I'd have no ticket on the car on Day 2 feared being clamped so cut short my visit. I know I could have phoned a friend to put a new ticket on but it just was not that simple at the time. In any event are these carparks monitored for safety during overnight parking. Parking should be an optional extra in the cost of the rail ticket as is the case with LUAS. As an aside its a pity that the overall experience of railtravel is becoming less friendly and slightly aggressive ie. instructions in carparks to "PARK FACING FENCE" - new arrangements at Heuston where all passengers are herded in front of the departure screens waiting for the magic platform number to appear with ten minutes to go and then the herd racing towards the train - while in a recent instance the actual train was standing on the platform for the previous 30 minutes.
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People should always park so that they do NOT reverse into the aisle. To do otherwise may be in breach of the Road Traffic Acts.
Where is this?
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