I pendolari di Dublino non saranno in grado di utilizzare pienamente il contatto sui trasporti pubblici fino al 2029, afferma il Ministro – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2025/06/25/dublin-transport-contactless-payment-system-not-operational-until-2029-says-minister/
di WickerMan111
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Just fucking let me add my leap card to my apple wallet then ffs at least
Interesting that it says “Dublin”.. will those of us in Galway have to wait till the 2030s?
I was thinking to myself, wow thats amazing and shocking. Then i remembered this is Ireland and gave my head a wobble.
2029 means 2035 at the earliest.
It’s really not that complicated. They are just inept.
Things that will likely happen before we get contactless
1. Global war
2. Melting of ice caps
3. Mayo win at least a raffle
4. GTA 6
5. Merger of the two Taytos
There’s a chance we’ll get the Metro before this
Headline sort of implies that it’ll be available alright, just that Dubliners wont be able to use it. Us culchies wil be fine!
Don’t they have it on the train anyway for the food cart?
London is laughing at us
This like everything else is taking too long but I feel people think we’re just adding contactless payment to the existing infrastructure. We’re really going to replace the entire Leap card system.
You’re going to need to replace every single validator for one. Overhaul the back end. Manage multiple tickets, annual, tax saver, 90 mins, student, etc Develop mobile apps, etc
Again, I think it is taking longer than it should but if the headline read “Leap Card system to be replaced in 2029” I’m not sure it would have the the same reaction
year is 2268 contactless finally accepted on public transport in Dublin 😉
When you come off the ferry at Dublin port there is a Kavanaghs bus that brings you into the city. It’s a shitty old double decker that’s been painted blue and is days away from the scrap heap and somehow they manage to have contact less payments and yet none of the other fucking buses can figure it out.
After I get my bus pass so, and payment isn’t needed?
Probably true for many others, when the completion date slips out to 2035? 2039?
How are we so useless with this as a country
Embarrassing
For the love of CHRIST even the Dutch have it and you have to fight for your life getting on a tram in the centre of the city with drunk/high tourists why can’t we manage this?
As much as I despise the current conflicts in the Middle East currently, it does strike me that so many of these other nations have the technology, capability and means to cause so much destruction on a whim yet Ireland can’t figure out contactless payments for public transport.
If you read the article, 2029 is some sort of an assumption “if all goes well” – this is from Darragh O’Brien who last November was stating confidently that 40000 homes would be completed in 2024, just 4 working weeks later – a target they missed by 10000 completions – those 10000 homes still have not been completed.
Dude contactless is already history in many countries where QR code based payment is already taking over (Southeast Asia) …
It was meant to take 7 years in 2020. Absolute wasters.
Strap a sum up terminal to the tap on unit – an Irish solution, to an Irish problem
Are they hand knitting their own debit cards or something?
How the hell is this taking until 2029?!
By the time this launches contactless EMV cards could well be obsolete ! We may have moved on from the concept of money entirely.
I live in Sydney, they introduced this back in 2018. They had a system just like leap and it took just a few months to update all buses/trains/trams. Why does Ireland take so long?
They pay contactless in Syberia 🤣🤣🤣
How embarrassing
Split and Brno have had contactless payments for ages. We still have to wait an Olympic cycle.
A system that has been built to endlessly defer decisions through consultations, reports, and committees so no one ever has to take any responsibility. The ineptitude of the state is astounding in some areas.
They obviously can do it. It is just a matter of copy-pasting what other countries do. So you have to ask, who benefits from them *not* doing it?
Thing is: when you push out technological solutions by this much by the time you’ve delivered the solution, there’s every chance a new disruptive innovative technology will have come along in the intervening period making your original solution outdated or even redundant.
What we need is a Contactless Tsar followed by a task force to sort all this out.
You can pay contactless in rural Derry but not Dublin (for at least another 4 years), make that make sense.
The real question is what technology will exist in 2029 that we’ll have completely missed the boat on and everyone else is doing, and we’ll be saying we’ll have it in place by 2040.