Opal Weekly Reward in One Day for $15

smellfry on 07/03/2015 - 22:01
Last edited 07/03/2015 - 22:25 by 1 other user

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All credit goes to SilverStar9192 on Reddit. I copied and pasted it. Hope I haven't done anything illegal.

How it works:

• Tap on at any light rail station
• Tap off at Pyrmont Bay, then immediately tap back on again
• Walk to The Star light rail - 200m along Pirrama Rd
• Tap off then immediately tap on again again
• Walk back to Pyrmont Bay and repeat.
• After three trips (1.5 round trips), the fourth trip starts a new journey
• After 7 journeys - 21 single trips - you are charged $14.70 .
• Trip number 22 will charge you $0.30 and will be the eighth journey.
• The weekly reward is now active for the rest of the week.

Tips:

• At Pyrmont Bay, use the readers on opposite sides of the pole to tap off and tap on in quick succession
• At The Star, wait 15 seconds after tapping off to avoid "already tapped off error" then tap on again. (The closest Opal pole at The Star only has one reader.)

Advantages of Light Rail method:

• Only 200 metres level walk between Opal poles at Star City LR to Pyrmont Bay LR
• Each Opal journey requires 1.5 return trips, or 600 metres - slightly less than Erskineville/Macdonaldtown return trips which are about 650 metres each.
• You could reach 7 journeys in about 25-30 minutes if you jog or run fast
• You can ride the light rail between stations if it happens to come, as you are always tapped on.
• This method will work at other close by light rail stations, such as Capitol Square and Paddy's Market, which are about 300m apart.

Disadvantages of Light Rail method:

• If you aren't near a light rail station, it will cost an extra fare to arrive in Pyrmont which uses up the daily cap and may limit your journey count for the day.
• There is a street crossing at The Star's carpark entrance/exit which may delay you slightly if there is traffic.

Related Stores

Opal Card - NSW Government

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    Stingo on 02/02/2016 - 02:28

    You are seeing what you should be seeing. You're given 3 transfers within a journey before a new journey commences. Transfers must be within 61 mins of each other. If you're doing consecutive trips on LR then you'll see the word "Transfer" when you tap on for your 2nd, 3rd, 4th trip in each single mode journey. Your 1st trip and every 4th trip thereafter (i.e. 5th, 9th) should just display your balance when you tap on and deduct the fare between the two stops when you tap off.

    If you can wait 61m between trips than you won't need the additional 3 trips required to force a new journey. That is easiest if you happen to be near the LR (or a bus route) all day. You can also start new journeys on LR by tapping more than 3? stops away from where you tapped off.

    Remember that you need to wait 61m when switching modes. Switching modes resets the trip counter but continues the same journey.

    Hope that helps. Choosing Pyrmont Bay and The Star minimises the amount of distance you need to travel.

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      carwashhair on 02/02/2016 - 13:07

      If what you say above is correct, then wouldn't that preclude this glitch working between Pyrmont Bay and The Star?

      I thought that the whole reason people choose Pyrmont Bay-Star or Macdonaldtown-Erskineville is because they lay outside the city-circle/central sydney zone. Otherwise loads of people would be walking between wynyard/martin place/town hall/circular quay and doing the same thing, and programmers twigged to this before opal was rolled out. Hence the glitch as we know it.

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        Stingo on 10/02/2016 - 06:57

        The details of whether a tap-on extends a journey or creates a new one is mode-specific. Exceeding the allowed 4 trips within a mode in a journey is common across buses, trains and light rail. Creating new journeys by discontiguous trips is common to both light and heavy rail but the details are quite different. The Pyrmont Bay - Star hack is an example of exceeding the trip limit on a given mode. The canonical Macdowntown Erskinville hack is an example of a discontiguous trip creating a new journey. That only works outside the 'city' stations (including Kings Cross). While generating new journeys by tapping on at at a station other than the one you tapped off at is possible on LR too, it is more impractical for pedestrians because LR allows the transfers to occur at the 3 stations before and after the one used to tap-off the previous trip.

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