NSW Labor's Issues With Opal Card Mostly Monthly, Quarterly & Annual Paper Tickets!

Today, was a great day yesterday as I introduced more community members to check out this blogspot and then I had met the newly endorsed candidate for Mount Druitt, Councillor Edmond Atalla. He was handing out the following handout:

Mr Edmond Atalla has been a strong advocate for supporting the continuance of the Mount Druitt hospital cardiac unit as well as other local issues. Yet, he doesn't have an Opal Card yet! Although having an Opal Card is an individual choice, like choosing if you use public transport or not, I think having an Opal Card is important and vital to use public transport, even if it is seldom used.

I understand that Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly may be expensive for former yearly ticket holders. For example: Mount Druitt to Central yearly MyMulti is $2,444.00 (as per below):

MyMulti		Adult	Child	Student*	Pensioner*	Half Fare*
MyMulti DayPass		$23.00	$11.50	$11.50	N/A	N/A
MyMulti3 Weekly		$63.00	$31.50	$31.50	N/A	N/A
MyMulti3 Monthly (28 days)		$246.00	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MyMulti3 Quarterly (90 days)		$676.00	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MyMulti3 Yearly (365 days)		$2,444.00	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

MyTrain		Adult	Child	Student*	Pensioner*	Half Fare*
Single		$6.80	$3.40	$3.40	$2.50	$3.40
Return		$13.60	$6.80	$6.80	$2.50	$6.80
Off-peak return		$9.20	$4.60	N/A	N/A	N/A
Weekly		$52.00	$26.00	$26.00	$26.00	N/A
Fortnightly		$104.00	$52.00	$52.00	$52.00	N/A
Monthly (28 days)		$189.00	$94.50	$94.50	$94.50	N/A
Quarterly (90 days)		$520.00	$260.00	$260.00	$260.00	N/A
Yearly (365 days)		$2,080.00	$1,040.00	$1,040.00	$1,040.00	N/A

A Opal ticketing fares:

Opal card vs MyTrain adult fares comparison

Fare distance band	Distance KM’s	Station to station examples	Card type	Opal single fare - peak	MyTrain single fare (peak)†	Opal off-peak	MyTrain Weekly†	Opal (8 journeys = Weekly Travel Reward)
Train 1	0-10	Bondi Junction to Central Chatswood to North Sydney Lidcombe to Parramatta	Adult	$3.30	$3.80	$2.31	$28.00	$26.40
			Child	$1.65	$1.90	$1.15	$14.00	$13.20
Train 2	10-20	Hurstville to Central Blacktown to Parramatta Bankstown to Central	Adult	$4.10	$4.60	$2.87	$35.00	$32.80
			Child	$2.05	$2.30	$1.43	$17.50	$16.40
Train 3	20-35	Parramatta to Central Hornsby to Central Liverpool to Central	Adult	$4.70	$5.20	$3.29	$41.00	$37.60
			Child	$2.35	$2.60	$1.64	$20.50	$18.80
Train 4	35-65	Richmond to Central Campbelltown to Central Emu Plains to Redfern	Adult	$6.30	$6.80	$4.41	$52.00	$50.40
			Child	$3.15	$3.40	$2.20	$26.00	$25.20
Train 5	65+	Gosford to Central Wollongong to Town Hall Katoomba to Central	Adult	$8.10	$8.60	$5.67	$61.00	$60.00*
			Child	$4.05	$4.30	$2.83	$30.50	$30.00*

* Caps at 4 x Daily Travel Cap of $15.00 for Adult and $7.50 for Child/Youth
basted on 2 paid journeys or more per day to reach the Weekly Travel Reward. Excludes airport station access fee

 

The Opal yearly fare is $2,620.08. Yet as most of the workers that use this, would be deducting 4 weeks for annual being $201,60, leaving the total as $2,418,48. This now represents saving  of $25.62.

With the tickets they are Monthly $201. Opal, Mytrain Monthly $189.00 - $12 more expensive.

With the tickets they are Quarterly $602.40 Opal, Mytrain Quarterly $520.00 - $82.40 more expensive.

*With the tickets they are Yearly $2620.08 Opal, Mytrain Yearly $2,080.00 - $540.18 more expensive.

* We need to deduct appropriate 4 weeks of for annual leave. That would leaving yearly amount $338.44.

We know all tickets holders may not be all benefiting from the new ticket system yet the majority of previous ticket holders should be happy with online statements, free trips after 8 trips, no queuing for purchasing tickets, check balances as you tap and go.


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