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Originally Posted by luasuser
Your right Mark, LUAS drivers or ticket collectors are not obliged to work on the night luas, this is voluntary & based on a first come, first used basis. There is a special rate paid by Veolia to the staff but very few take up the offer & those that do are usually desperate to boost their meagre wages (which is close to the minimum wage).
Secondly staff are physically & verbally abused by drunken louts who ruin what should be an efficient means of getting home after a good night out. therefore security has to be paid for and that cost is added to the other costs of providing the service (the drivers, the ticket inspectors, the control room staff, & the energy costs)
thirdly, the trams have to be inspected & cleaned every night ready for service the following day. this takes several hours between cleaning & servicing, not to mention the fact that overtime would have to be paid to the maintainance staff to work later than normal.
so if passengers who live close to or within walking distance of either luas lines find the cost of a nightluas ticket too much, i would ask them, would they rather stand in a queue with aggressive drunken louts, for over two hours, then probably be told by the taxi driver that they are'nt heading that direction or have a fight over who skipped the queue to even get in a taxi.
I think the nightluas service provides an excellent service taking all of these costs into consideration.
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In every job, there are occupational hazards, and coping with alcos on public transport is one of them. That should not ruin civilised people's evenings who just want to get home without any dramas. There is enough security on those trams, and when I'm on the Luas, they're usually staring at passengers, rather than easing your journey.
All Friday and Saturday nights should be late night Luas on all routes, not just the city centre. Dublin is a party city now, and it's very depressing to know that apart from December, you must leave the pub/club/restaurant by 12.30 in order to avoid getting a taxi and paying through the nose for it.
You can use Nitelinks but they only go from town, and don't serve all of the city either.