ID required for weekly and monthly tickets

[chuggachuggachoochoo]

Ticket machine is printing Weekly Tickets.

However the card that printed out of the machine had a blank rectangle with a note saying "Write in CIE ID No below in biro'

Valid only with current CIE ID Card


I've been getting the weekly tickets for a while now, without any ID at the counter ( been putting off getting the id card for ages)

Have the rules on weekly tickets be changed? Can staff at Pearse or Connolly stop me and make me buy a single/1 day return journey ticket as I don't have a CIE ID card?

[Mark Gleeson]

All weekly and monthly tickets have always required a id card. Section 36 http://www.railusers.ie/resources/IE...riage_2004.pdf

You are liable to pay the single fare for the journey if caught or may be fined.

Curiously the ticket vending machine doesn't require you to punch the code in on the screen like it does for student tickets

3 and 7 day point to point tickets do not require a id card

Id cards available in person Dublin Bus on O'Connell Street

[markpb]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Id cards available in person Dublin Bus on O'Connell Street

Better not work a 9-5 or you'll never make it in there. Early risers on Saturdays may apply though

I think some (but not all) of the DB ticket selling shops will also give you ID cards as well.

[Mark Hennessy]

Originally Posted by markpb

I think some (but not all) of the DB ticket selling shops will also give you ID cards as well.

I asked in one the shops they had listed on DB website and got a response that they had never heard of it.

Veoila have a simple solution, staff hand out the cards themselves on the Luas and folks just have to write their names and attach picture themselves.

No reason why Irish Rail and DB couldn't do the same.

[Mark Gleeson]

Luas guys accept the CIE issued cards as well

Veoila don't have a public office, Irish Rail has many tens of offices

[Mark Hennessy]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Veoila don't have a public office, Irish Rail has many tens of offices

Exactly but a rail customer still cannot get a CIE ID from any of them.
It's yet another one of the small issues that passengers must jump through hoops for.

[Thomas Ralph]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

3 and 7 day point to point tickets do not require a id card

The purple and blue ones issued at ticket counters say Valid only with current Photo ID. Although there is never an ID number printed, nor asked for.

Maybe it's a good thing that I was getting off the tram today as the Veolia inspectors were getting on. (My ticket says 7DAY BUS90. LUAS as its ticket type, from Dublin Connolly to Sandymount, but does not have I.F.S. printed.)

[Mark Gleeson]

But it has Luas on it

3 and 7 day don't need ID

To confirm, Sutton, Malahide, Bray, Dun Laoghaire and Pearse all will issue the ID on production of photo