As we grow older we find that governments throw occasional crumbs in our direction. One option in NSW is cheap travel on public transport, and Dot and I came across the ultimate bargain a few days ago. Living in the countryside, there is little public transport available and we tend to forget that Seniors living in Sydney can readily access abundant cheap trains, buses and ferries (on the harbour).
Anyway, we wanted to visit central Sydney to suss out some events attached to the Festival of Sydney and do a bit of shopping. The fare came to A$2.50 (or 1.43 pounds sterling for my English readers at the current echange rate) and that purchased something like 18 hourse of unlimited travel anywhere in the city, including the 15 km trip rail journey from Rockdale, where we were staying, to the city centre (Circular Quay). After discovering an absence of day-time festival activities (we didn't have a program!), we then decided on a harbour cruise - the 16+ km round trip to Manly, which was embdedded in the price of the original ticket. We could have taken a dozen such ferry trips all for nothing.
If you come to visit us down-under you'd better pack your equivalent of the Seniors card (it has no pension attached) for abundant low-price travel.
AS
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I cannot beat that offer but here in the UK the over 60's can get a free bus pass to use on the local buses. This means the town buses not National Express long distance coaches. If a town bus goes from Poole to Exeter (there is one called the Jurassic Coast Bus) you can use it but as it stops all over the place it would take HOURS to get there and you would be very sore as the seats are not like long distance coach seats. Londoners are more fortunate as their seniors can use their Oyster card freedom pass on buses, main line trains within the outer limit, underground trains and the Docklands Light railway. I use my pass a lot on our local buses as they are so frequent and take you right into the centre of Poole or Bournemouth. Richard.
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