Although many of us use Sydney public transport every day – there’s countless relatively unknown tricks when it comes to tickets and rail timetables or bus timetables. Maybe you even know of public transport tricks to travel to Sydney Airport at little cost.
What are your tricks on low fares or travelling around town on public transport in Sydney?
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Weekly train tickets are not always the best value for money. You can save by buying a single ticket in the morning and a weekly ticket after work.
eg: in the 10-15km range a single ticket is $4 and a weekly is $31, this will be $35 for 6 days of travel (if you only use it Monday to Friday) – $5.83/day
A weekly ticket alone is $31 for 5 days of travel – $6.20/day
If you can travel offpeak (after 9am) it costs even less – $5.40/day
it’s quicker, easier and less stressful to drive.
Yep. Take the car. Everyone else does in Sydney.
It’s risky b/c you may be fined, but I never buy MyBus2 or 3. I always buy MyBus1 passes no matter how far away I’m going. They don’t check.
ALWAYS have coins and use the “coins only” machines in the morning. A lot of people either don’t know how to use them or don’t have coins, so you don’t wait as long to buy a ticket.
Avoid it at all costs !