Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority
1:30 pm
Ms Anne Graham:
I will respond to the question about fares and then I will ask Mr. Ryan to respond about the capacity.
On the fares side, our whole drive has been to simplify the fares system and offer a simplified fare structure. If we start to introduce a layer of off-peak fares, that would introduce a complexity to the system when we have been trying to reduce that. We introduced off-peak fares on Luas services a number of years ago but we have now removed them because they did not actually cause any change in behaviour. If people are travelling at a particular time, they are travelling at that time for a particular reason. The fare change, even when it is a substantial change, does not really make much difference to their travelling patterns. For that reason, we do not-----
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