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THE LEAP CARD transport scheme has made €263 million since it was launched in December 2011.
Last month was a bumper one, with turnover reaching €15.4 million.
In the greater Dublin area, six in ten journeys are paid for via Leap – with the one millionth card sold today.
Overall, 600,000 are adult cards, a further 260,000 are student cards, 80,000 are child cards and 60,000 are visitor cards.
Anne Graham, Chief Executive of the National Transport Authority (NTA) said a million card sales “means that hundreds of thousands of people are benefitting from lower cost transport, as they go to work, to school, or for their leisure activities”.
Graham noted that Leap is not just a Dublin scheme, with the cards now accepted on Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann services in Cork and on Bus Éireann services in Galway and Limerick, with a roll-out to Waterford planned in the coming months.
Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe said that, where it is in use, Irish commuters have “really taken to the Leap, not just for the savings it gives them, which are substantial, but for the convenience it offers in banishing to the past the search for change for the bus or train”.
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I only know its autumn as the younger daughter has changed into the onesie she lives in for the autumn winter months . It’s a bright blue onesie and she looks like a tall mutant smurf. I was desperate to send in her picture but she threatened to move back home permanently if I did so couldn’t take the chance . Bought as a joke for her a couple of years ago and I guess the joke is firmly on me as she lives in it the minute she gets home in the evenings lol
Kicking leaves as you walk and the sound of crunching on the frost covered grass
Lovely, lovely photies :-)
Beautiful pictures that make me feel lucky to live in such an amazingly picturesque country!
I was fortunate enough to be driving through new hampshire towards maine a couple of years ago. Any bit of a hill on the highway gave you views of endless dappled forests. Genuinely amazing stuff. If you ever get the chance….
100 time better photos than the one in art galleries which they sellin for millions of dollars ….
These are so true to our everyday experiences.
Great photos. Nice to see something nice for a change!
I’m still trying to pretend it’s summer!
I find it sooo hard to start wearing jackets.
Shroom season! Yay!
I wish I could tell the edible ones cos we have some huge ones in the fields round us.
It’s nearly winter.
The mushrooms abive the pug loik very like liberty caps aka magic mushrooms. .
My children have grown up but some of the pictures brought back memories of them playing in the leaves.
That little pug is so cute. Glad he wasn’t starred in love hate. There would have been a public out-cry. … Oh wait …
Mushies!!!!!!:):):):):):
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