Following the recently introduced parking charges at some of our railway stations commuters could face a ten per cent fares hike in January following Minister Dempsey’s sanctioning of the rise according to Cllr Richard Daly of Fine Gael.
“South Kildare has a large number of commuters who daily use the rail services to get to work and this is a further blow to them in what are already very difficult times. For many of them their job security has vanished and if they are still lucky enough to have employment they are now to be penalised once again for using the green option.
Iarnroid Eireann claim that passenger number are in decline and in their wisdom seem to think that the way to reverse this is to charge more to the existing commuters. The parking charges have already added €500 euro to their annual travel bill and now an additional ten per cent is proposed. This would prompt any traveller to examine alternatives to rail.”
Cllr Daly added “Iarnróid Eireann is already heavily subsidised by the taxpayer and should be able to make rail the attractive option for commuters instead of constantly piling on additional charges on a diminishing number of commuters.”
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