Student OPAL cards (3 Viewers)

[D94]

It's in myUNW student tab down the left hand side.

Also make sure you just put in the number, no 'z'.

 

[mreditor16]

It's in myUNW student tab down the left hand side.

Also make sure you just put in the number, no 'z'.

got tricked by that HAHAHAHA

 

[Amundies]

Ordered mine, yay. No more going to the bus stop 2 mins earlier on Mondays to buy travel tens!

 

[anomalousdecay]

got tricked by that HAHAHAHA

I felt so cut inside from that the first time. Then I tried it without the z and it worked

 

[mreditor16]

very good read on the Concession Opal Cards )

https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-zhou/opal-card-primer/898697576848831

 

[Cleavage]

very good read on the Concession Opal Cards )

https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-zhou/opal-card-primer/898697576848831

there are some people who just want to help out hahaha

i love those people

 

[D94]

Last week, I saw a guy rush out of the bus, attempting to tap off, but his card was in his bag, so he placed his bag against the card reader. Needless to say, the machine didn't register the tap, and so he would have paid the full journey for the bus trip.

Please remember to properly tap off and not look like a fool to half the bus.

 

[QZP]

Opal website doesn't make it explicit about when a new journey starts so if anyone could clarify his scenario:

Edit - I guess the question can be better phrased as:

Does a new journey start after 60 minutes from the START (first tap-on) or END (last tap-off) of the old journey?
If none of the above, does it start after 60 minutes from the latest TAP-ON/TAP-OFF (choose one) of the old journey in the case where you have multiple trips in one journey?

I'm asking because I have to bus --> train --> bus to UNSW and the transition times between each is less than 1 hour but the total time elapsed since the first bus is more than 1 hour. I want to maximise my journeys to save money after my 8th journey

 

[obliviousninja]

Last week, I saw a guy rush out of the bus, attempting to tap off, but his card was in his bag, so he placed his bag against the card reader. Needless to say, the machine didn't register the tap, and so he would have paid the full journey for the bus trip.

Please remember to properly tap off and not look like a fool to half the bus.

I just gonna use the loophole to max out the 8 trips as quickly and cost efficiently as possible. Coz its 3 interchanges for me from home to uni and vice versa. So I'll end up saving maybe $10 a week extra through having free trips to and from uni

 

[obliviousninja]

Not reallly a loophole. But yeahhh

 

[anomalousdecay]

Apart from going to uni less than 4 days a week, a mymulti2 is cheaper for me.

 

[mreditor16]

Opal website doesn't make it explicit about when a new journey starts so if anyone could clarify his scenario:

Edit - I guess the question can be better phrased as:

Does a new journey start after 60 minutes from the START (first tap-on) or END (last tap-off) of the old journey?
If none of the above, does it start after 60 minutes from the latest TAP-ON/TAP-OFF (choose one) of the old journey in the case where you have multiple trips in one journey?

I'm asking because I have to bus --> train --> bus to UNSW and the transition times between each is less than 1 hour but the total time elapsed since the first bus is more than 1 hour. I want to maximise my journeys to save money after my 8th journey

Read through this -

very good read on the Concession Opal Cards )

https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-zhou/opal-card-primer/898697576848831

 

[D94]

I just gonna use the loophole to max out the 8 trips as quickly and cost efficiently as possible. Coz its 3 interchanges for me from home to uni and vice versa. So I'll end up saving maybe $10 a week extra through having free trips to and from uni

Well I use a MyMulti3 so I'll be saving regardless. Don't feel like wasting several 1 hours for the sake of saving a few dollars each time. Being cost efficient does not necessarily mean you are being time efficient.

 

[anomalousdecay]

Well I use a MyMulti3 so I'll be saving regardless. Don't feel like wasting several 1 hours for the sake of saving a few dollars each time. Being cost efficient does not necessarily mean you are being time efficient.

Well one thing that comes into mind is catching a bus from lower to upper campus in a break instead of walking if you need to go that way.

I guess it is quite convenient for me though in the sense that I'll be in Randwick a little each week so I could possibly make a saving. However the fact that an OPAL card is a lot more convenient to use might be worth the few dollars extra than buying multi2s each week.

 

[QZP]

Read through this -

Thanks Looks like a new journey starts when 1 hour has elapsed from the last tap-off of the old journey.

 

[QZP]

Calculated it to $21.96/wk on Opal by taking advantage of the weekly travel reward. Very convenient for me too since my only non-compulsory journey (i.e. not the journeys between my house and UNSW) is a single 1-stop journey during my monday break.

Everyone try to take advantage of it!! My friend got it at $15/wk so lucky.

Edit: NVM!! Reduced it to $17.10/wk for me So stoked

 

[Larche]

So how does this work for USyd? I already completed enrolment and said I wanted to apply for concession this year, but theres no other info after that. I also tried applying for it on the Opal website but after I put in my SID my application gets rejected Because apparently I haven't allowed USyd to share my info with the Opal people?

 

[isildurrrr1]

There should be something on U Syd's website about opal and that you consent to them sharing info with transport nsw. takes a day or two.

 

[Smooth Operator]

How does everyone feel about disclosing their info and essentially how/where they travel to relevant agencies?

 

[Squar3root]

How does everyone feel about disclosing their info and essentially how/where they travel to relevant agencies?

like they don't already know everything about us

THE GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS WATCHING​