Hi Ulla, that is a good point and I heard of someone up there losing their pass but they were glad that the address on it wasn't their own one for the same reasons as you have pointed out. Surely if we are going to addapt an all island system we are going to have to change our passes or have some sort of system as I am sure that the identifying systems or scanning machines that they have up there are different than here. I was on a train last week coming back from Port Rush to Belfast and the machine that the checker was using sounded to be a different machine to what they use down here. -----Original Message----- From: irelandvipnews-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irelandvipnews-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ulla Quayle Sent: 19 June 2006 10:19 To: irelandvipnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [IrelandVIPNews] Re: FREE TRAVEL PASS Morning All. The thing that really worries me about the travel passes in the South is that both of them (the Companion Travel Pass and the Dublin Bus Pass) have our addresses printed on them. This could be very dangerous if we lose the passes. Basically it means that anyone who might pick these up if we drop them knows that a visually impaired person lives at the address printed on the pass. This leaves us open to all sorts of problems if the passes fall into the wrong hands. That really does worry me a lot. The travel pass in the North does not have the person's address printed on it. It has the address of the Smart Pass Office so that if it gets lost, there are no contact details of the person to whom it belongs written on it. I do think this is serious and it is leaving us open to all sorts of risk. Ulla -----Original Message----- From: Kealy, Nicky [mailto:Nicky.Kealy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 June 2006 10:06 To: irelandvipnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [IrelandVIPNews] Re: FREE TRAVEL PASS Hi Robbie. as you have already heard some companies don't accept them as they have not signed up to the scheme yet. I don't know if they are compelled to either. Just out of interest, do you know the name of the company? There are not that many private opporaters in the Dublin area are there? Just on a slightly different thread, I have seen travel passes from the north and they are much better than our ones here. They are much smaller and fit in a wallet. I can't understand why that can't be done here. Also, they are much stricter up there about you presenting your pass for inspection and if ya don't have one ya have to pay. I do believe that we are going to have a 32 county pass for all within the next year or so. -----Original Message----- From: irelandvipnews-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irelandvipnews-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sandberg, Robert Sent: 19 June 2006 09:32 To: irelandvipnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [IrelandVIPNews] FREE TRAVEL PASS Hi folks! First of all appologies to the VICS list I sent this to by mistake. Can anyone tell me where I can read up on the legal status of the travel pass? Especially who is compelled to accept it and who isn't. I have one, not the blue bus pass, but the one that's valid for country-wide public transport. This morning the driver of my bus to work said he could not accept the pass and that I would have to pay him. I have to say that it is a private bus company, but I was under the impression that the pass covered those too. He then said that they were not public transport. 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