Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Leap card has been a good move for Dublin. It has offered a discounted and convenient way to use bus and rail services in the city on one ticket and we can see from the number of people who taken up the scheme how effective it has been. However, the one thing it does not do for bus users is help to speed up the loading and unloading of passengers at each stop. Luas users do not have to queue to ask the driver to key in their fare; they simply tag on and tag off. Leap card users on buses, as before when they used change, must queue with the majority of passengers to tell the driver their fare.

This means the Leap card has little or no effect on bus queues as the Rambler cards do.

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