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Opal equipment was designed from the start to support a variety of cards, but launched with the captive Opal cards. Opal cards are the standard method of paying for fares on the Opal system. The card is a credit card-sized smartcard which includes a microchip and internal RFID aerial, allowing the card to communicate with readers.
The first stage of the Opal card rollout commenced on 7 December 2012 as a trial on the Neutral Bay to Circular Quay ferry service [1] [2] followed on 8 April 2013 by the Manly to Circular Quay service, [3] [4] and on 12 August 2013 to the Eastern Suburbs, Mosman and Taronga Zoo.
Tcard was a failed attempt to introduce an inter-modal stored-value transport smart card, similar to Hong Kong's Octopus Card system, originally intended to be in place before the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In 2007, the state government terminated the project and the $64 million investment had been written off.
An Opal ticket machine and an Opal reader at Pyrmont Bay. The smartcard-based Opal card ticketing system, which was introduced to the network on 1 December 2014, is valid on metro, train, bus, ferry and light rail services. [80] Different fares apply for these modes, except that the same fares apply to light rail and buses.
Metrobus services have always used the same ticketing system as all other Sydney metropolitan buses. At time of introduction, this was the MyZone system. The Opal card system was rolled out to all buses throughout 2013-14, and became the sole ticketing system when MyZone was phased out in 2016.
State Transit commenced operating in October 2006 as the first full-time prepay only bus route in Sydney. [1] [2] When Opal cards were rolled out across Sydney, route 333 became the second route to use Opal cards on 6 December 2013. [3] [4] In September 2018, bus services in the Eastern Suburbs underwent a major overhaul which included ...
The Grand Concourse of Central station; a major hub for public transport services Light Horse Interchange, the largest of its kind in Australia. Transport in Sydney is provided by an extensive network of public transport operating modes including metro, train, bus, ferry and light rail, as well as an expansive network of roadways, cycleways and airports.
Buses account for close to six per cent of trips each day in the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, forming a key part of the city's public transport system.The network initially evolved from a privately operated system of feeder services to railway stations in the outer suburbs, and a publicly operated network of bus services introduced to replace trams in the inner suburbs.