Matthews make Leap to cards

DUNDALK commuters travelling on Matthews.ie services are being reminded to use any remaining paper ten-journey tickets before January 31.

In an effort to speed up boarding times on the service and reduce waste, Matthews.ie successfully moved to a paperless system for their ten-journey tickets in November.

Single and return journeys continue to be printed as paper tickets, however, all adult, child and student 10-journey tickets are now issued exclusively on Leap Cards.

Paper ten-journey tickets are only valid for transport up to January 31, and Matthews. ie are encouraging their customers to use them in advance of this date.

‘January 31 will be the last day that these tickets are valid for transport on our services, so we urge our customers to dig up their paper tickets in advance of this date,’ said Matthews. ie Managing Director Paddy Matthews. He said that the new Leap card would have a number of advantages for commuters, including the benefit of recovering their ticket via the Leap Card system should it get lost or stolen.

‘Matthews.ie customers also have the option to preload their card with a 10-journey ticket up to 48 hours before their journey.’

Matthews.ie customers can find out more about getting Leap and child Leap Cards and locating their nearest convenient collection point at leapcard.ie.

All customers travelling to college must have a Student Leap Card to avail of further discounted student ten-journey tickets. Students can register online and find their nearest collection point, including Student Unions, at https://www. studentleapcard.ie/applybymobile/.

For further information, contact info@matthews.ie