Anyone know how to get an Opal card without loading $40 on to one. I might use public transport twice a year.
Opal Card min. $40
fruit on 30/03/2014 - 10:54
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Not at the moment, since they have to be ordered over the website. But if you only use public transport twice a year wouldn't you be better off continuing to buy paper tickets rather than tying your money up? Though actually the cost is the opportunity cost of $40, i.e. the interest it would earn in a year, and you might save that if you go on a travel spree on a Sunday.
Are you sure you can take the $40 out?
I don't understand your question. You can pay for rides with the Opal card until the balance falls below $10.
Why would you want to carry another card if you just use it twice a year? better off just buying the paper tickets
(if not like some o/s transport cards where you can do other things/payment with…)What happens if they remove paper tickets?
That's when you start considering getting the Opal card ;)
Go via paper tickets. How do other states' transit cards handle patrons like the OP?
Apparently Melbourne with the MyKi card, you cannot pay cash or paper tickets. A massive fail in my opinion, especially for tourism.
The coin only ticket machine is a massive fail.
We asked where we could pay at a tram stop, told on the tram, jumped on went to pay… who carries that much coin these days no notes and no credit/debit card option
yah for fear evasion…
This is no joke. I was there on a public holiday, every shop closed. Needed 3 tickets. Nowhere to buy. We walked 20 mins looking. A hotel swapped a bag of 10 bucks worth of 10 cent coins for 10 dollar note. We jumped on tram, fed our 10 cent coins in one by one, got like 20 cents off ticket price ( like $3.80), and the machine spat the coins out. Tried again and machine did again. Apparently it has a 38 coin limit for each tic, something like that. Fare evasion for real.
Not possible as far as I know.
Another huge FAIL by the NSW Government.
Opal should have been implemented 10 years ago.
Every major city in the world has a single linked transport card - London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, Brisbane etc etc etc etc etc etc