Seven Minutes In Hell

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From top: Newbridge train station; the Short Hop Zone

When is a commuter town not a commuter town?

When the Dart says so.

Patricia Callinan writes:

The Labour Party in Kildare is running a petition seeking fair train fares for Newbridge commuters.

It currently costs €3.56 to travel from Heuston to Sallins.

It costs almost 4 times more (€15.05) to go the final 7 minutes to Newbridge – a very expensive 7 minutes of travel.

The reason: Newbridge is not in the official ‘Short Hop Zone’ (the Dublin area rail network) despite clearly being a commuter town in the Dublin area

Fight!

Sign petition here

Pic: Leinster Leader/ Irish Rail

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45 thoughts on “Seven Minutes In Hell

  1. Jocky

    15 euro is about standard based on rail prices in western europe for that sort of journey. Move closer to Dublin if you want cheaper rail.

    1. dav

      yes and hand over your cash to the blushirt sponsored vulture funds that have hoovered up the property

    2. Murtles

      Magnificent financial advice. You should indeed move house, get a mortgage and live in negative equity for the rest of your life to save that €11.49.

  2. gringo

    The Labour party have discovered a reason to live? We salute them in their righteous battle with the dark forces of CIE or something

  3. m.e.

    I mean, boundaries have to be drawn somewhere. I can see the seven minutes of irritation but why wouldn’t the next town on all the lines then ask for the same?

    1. MoyestWithExcitement

      You’re right, that is a legitimate worry. Affordable public transport for all will destroy the country.

      1. m.e.

        Oh you won’t hear me argue against affordable public transport. But once again boundaries have to be drawn somewhere don’t they? Or are you saying that everywhere should be one price?

        1. MoyestWithExcitement

          I’m saying making people pay €75 a week to get to and from work because we “have” to draw an arbitrary line somewhere is a tad silly.

  4. Andy Moore

    It’s the same craic between Balbriggan & Laytown ! € 3.56 for a 20 mile journey ain’t bad though !

  5. eric cartman

    this is coming up now because sallins is now in the short hop, we have to draw the line somewhere, newbridge is basically the same commuting time as some parts of louth or wexford, its really not a dublin short hop zone.

    1. scottser

      let’s just call a spade a spade. the entire country is just now just a suburb of dublin. you could say newbridge is in dublin 312.

  6. Peter Dempsey

    it’s a fair point they’re making

    they have a commuter service from Newbridge to Grand Canal Dock which goes through the Phoenix Park tunnel (I think this is relatively new) so why not extend the short hop zone to where it begins?

  7. GiggidyGoo

    Is it €15 from Sallins to Newbridge, or €18 from Heuston To Newbridge?
    Surely you could buy a monthly ticket Sallins to Newbridge and a monthly ticket Heuston to Sallins?

  8. SomeChump

    They don’t have to draw a hard line anywhere. The price should jump from that severely at any stage and should increase in smaller increments.

  9. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

    How is it ‘clearly a commuter town in the Dublin area’?!

    It’s like a Ryanair airport.

    1. Kolmo

      Newry, The Shannon, Wexford is the commuter belt radius – Those not partaking in short-term pump-and-dump property speculation have to live somewhere..just not anywhere conducive to a healthy societal balance, and all that far away farmland wasn’t rezoned for nothing

      1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

        I’d love to live outside of Dublin. Sadly, my job is too bloody specific for me to work anywhere else.

  10. Dong

    €3.56 to sallins!? That’s unbelievably cheap. The luas from harcourt to ranelagh costs €2.40 and it’s spitting distance so less of your whining

      1. Rob_G

        I think the point that Dong is making is that if it costs about €2 to get from town to Ranelagh, Dublin to Sallins for less than €4 might be under-priced.

        1. Grouse

          This is new. I used pay a LOT more than that to commute from Sallins around 2005. It used bother me that it was so expensive, I never dreamed they might drop it by so much. Everyone from the Naas area must be over the moon about this.

          Seems like Newbridge is still way too expensive, and Sallins now almost too cheap if anything. At least by comparison.

          1. Rob_G

            I never get emotional over internet comments; but yet again you have jumped feet-first into a comments thread with one of your dumb pithy exclamations, with no attempt to argue the point on its own merits, or lack thereof.

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