Re: [IRLGuideDogs] travel passes
- From: "Ed Harper" <goat@xxxxxx>
- To: <irlguidedogs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:33:40 +0100
Hi all, perhaps someone might include in suggestions, to whomsoever is
responsible for the integrated ticketing project, that since they will need
to run a pilot at sometime, they should use the free travel pass community
as their pilot group, since if this group can cope with what ever they come
up with almost certainly the rest of the population can. That way round
for once would actually make more sense economically as well as
fairnesswise. If there are failures during the pilot, since we pay
nothing, nothing needs refunding and no one is suing anyone for economic
loss.
If you are looking for volunteers to put together a proposal I have neither
the technical knowledge nor the time at the moment, but if you need at some
stage publicity or lobbying work done please let me know.
All The Best
Ed
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[mailto:irlguidedogs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of O'Neill, Tom
Sent: 04 May 2006 14:31
To: Guide Dog Owners List (E-mail)
Subject: [IRLGuideDogs] travel passes
Nicky,
First can everybody watch the subject lines and clearly state what the topic
of the mail is.
Previously on this list and on Ireland v.i.p news much discussion was had re
size of travel pass and what happened nothing that I know off. So we can
all
whinge including myself all we like write e-mails like yours but until a
proposal is put together by a few people interested enough in the subject
and
taken by one or all of the agencies supporting groups of disabled persons
who
use travel passes to the department involved in the issuing of the travel
passes nothing will happen. So please someone on the list interested in
working instead of whinging collate all the appropriate e-mails and
suggestions, make up that proposal and ask in our case Irish Guide dogs to
take the proposal to a meeting with the issuing department and come back to
us with the reasons why the travel passes are that size.
It would be worth while for those of you who whinge about the size of the
travel passes to measure them against a fifty note EUR50 , then ask yourself
which is the biggest.
Now as you have found out the fifty note EUR50 is bigger so is that a good
reason to use all five notes EUR5 because there smaller
Next take the time to weigh your mobile phone and the travel pass and see
what weighs more.
I think we now know the travel pass is not that heavy or big and I'm not
defending the size of them just opening up your minds to all sorts of
weights
and measures
I'll bet your glad I didn't ask you to measure or weigh a pint glass empty
or
full
Cheers
Tom
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>From: Kealy, Nicky [mailto:Nicky.Kealy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 April 2006 08:32
To: irlguidedogs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [irlguidedogs] train ticket validating machines
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Hi to all, I also think that this is an interesting development but I
would also say that something has to be done about the size of the
travel pass. They are just too big and when you carry them around all
the time they just end up getting wrecked.
Cheers, Nicky.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Audrey Tormey [mailto:atormey@xxxxxx]
Sent: 19 April 2006 17:02
To: irlguidedogs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [irlguidedogs] train ticket validating machines
Tom,
Thanks for your email! and what an interesting email Too! I was
participating in Disability Awareness Training delivered by NCBI and
other disability groups recently, and there was no mention of such
machines being introduced. I wonder how accessible the machines for
validating one's ticket will be? if it's anything like the voting
machines there's no point! I sincerely hope NCBI and passengers who are
vision-impaired will be consulted when evaluating new ticket machines!
We'll have to watch this space!
Audrey
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>From: "Tom O'Neill" <oneillbt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "guide dog owners" <irlguidedogs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 11:04 AM
Subject: [irlguidedogs] train ticket validating machines
> All
>
> I have tried since 11th of April as the message below shows to get
this
> message out on this list from my work e-mail address but it just goes
> into siber space and to the best of my knowledge no body has got it.
> Now I am going to try sending it from another email address I use so
> here goes.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: O'Neill, Tom
>
> Sent: 11 April 2006 14:53
> To: Guide Dog Owners list (E-mail)
> Subject: train ticket validating machines
> All you guide dog owners and VIPs be aware that in the not too
> distant future all train stations, including DART Stations will have
> ticket validating
> machines installed. The current plan within Irish Rail is that
everybody
> using a travel pass or not must get a ticket for every journey that
> they are doing. This will mean you must put your ticket through a
> machine to
get
> onto and off the platforms. For those of us that use travel pass
> tickets this
> means we will have to get a ticket every single journey we travel
because
> the tickets can only be issued currently on a day return basis.
> The first two stations this is going to happen in are Clontarf Road
> and Grand Canal dock two dart stations. It was to happen at the end
> of February but
> there is a delay because Irish Rail are not happy with the machines
> currently been given to them.
>
>
> it is only a matter of time until this happens and the ticket
validating
> machines are going in right across the system.
> Can I suggest that those of you who don't carry your travel passes
> "because
> their too big" find them dust them off because your going to be
> using
them
> every day you take a suburban-intercity-train-dart journey likely
> before the end of this year.
> Staff at the center are aware of this system coming in and will be
> viewing
> machines in conjunction with Irish Rail staff as soon as the two
> pilot ones
> are in. The next three stations after the pilot results are
> Connolly, Tara
> Street and Pierce Stations
>
>
> Reason behind it "fraud"
>
>
> Any comments on this for me please use this list. No phone calls
please
> tom O'Neill
>
>
>
>
>
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