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
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
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
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)
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?