I recently spent a long weekend in Sydney and tried to buy an Opal card – their public transport smartcard – an exercise that was much harder than I expected.
Posts Tagged ‘Sydney’
Interstate mix and match from mX
May 29th, 2015
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In May 2015 publisher News Corp decided to shut down the free âmXâ newspaper after years of falling circulation. Targeted at commuters in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane â the newspaper had for years had saved money by sharing content between the three markets, with only slight modifications appearing in each local edition.
Cutaway views of Epping-Chatswood line stations
April 14th, 2015
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When I visited Sydney a few years ago, I paid a visit to their then-newest railway line – the Epping-Chatswood link. Running the entire way in tunnels between said stations, the line has three intermediate stations, all located deep underground: North Ryde, Macquarie Park, and Macquarie University. So how do passengers reach them?
Trainspotting on a flying visit to Sydney
September 12th, 2014
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A few weeks I made a flying visit to Sydney, as I made my way home to Melbourne from Cairns. I might have only spent an hour at Sydney Airport while I waited for my connecting flight, but I did manage to see a few trains along the way.
Sydney’s multimodal PT ticketing (or lack thereof)
September 9th, 2014
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As somebody who has grown up with a public transport ticketing system that lets you ride the entire network with a single ticket, Sydney’s service disruption messages focus on something that is apparently trivial – where your ticket is valid. So why is this so important?
