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Originally Posted by James Howard
Yesterday I had to go to Clontarf Road which isn't covered by the point-to-point on my Leapcard. Since I can't tag on in Edgeworthstown I went to barrier in Connolly and asked the guy there what I should do. He first suggested that the simplest thing to do would be to buy a ticket but when I explained that I had an epurse balance on it, he said to go through the barrier without tagging off and just tag on on the other side.
So I did this, and as far as the system was concerned my journey originated in Connolly. During this faff I missed a DART so this all delayed me 15 minutes but no worries as I wasn't in a hurry.
Anyway, when I tagged off in Clontarf road, I got charged the maximum fare so it would basically appear that the system is not set up to allow the use of the ePurse from one of the stations on your point-to-point. I rang leap this morning to sort it out and she refunded the money and suggested that I just not bother tagging on and explain my situation to any ticket checkers I met which seems to be setting me up for a hundred euro fine. Of course when I got to Clontarf road the barrier was open and I could have saved myself 15 minutes and a 10 minute 1890 phone call if I'd just dodged my fare.
Anyway, it would appear that the epurse on my leap card is basically useless for local rail travel in Dublin.
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LEAP can't cope with a point to point ticket and the epurse together.
It will automatically default to a loaded ticket if one is on the card.
There is no way for the card to know which you want to use at the barrier at a station where both are valid.
This issue can be coped with on the buses as there is the option of human intervention using the driver's ticket machine but that option isn't there for rail.
Oyster in London can get around it by having zones but the current station pairing set up in Dublin doesn't lend itself to facilitating that.
The only way around it is to have a second LEAP card to use the epurse.