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[SA] Free Public Transport for SA Senior Card Holders, Free 14-Day Off-Peak Public Transport for Interstate Senior Card Holders

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[SA] Free Public Transport for SA Senior Card Holders, Free 14-Day Off-Peak Public Transport for Interstate Senior Card Holders

Lcrunchyhead on 05/07/2022 - 00:48 seniorscard.sa.gov.au (861 clicks)
Last edited 05/07/2022 - 11:55 by 2 other users

See original post by bargainsgrabber
It appears that this DID become a thing after all.

(South Australia) From 1 July 2022, Seniors Card members can travel free on bus, train and trams at all times.
Hopefully other states follow suit.

Seniors Card & public transport

South Australian Seniors Card members can travel for free on Adelaide Metro buses, trains and trams – all day, every day.

Your Seniors Card is part of Adelaide's metroCARD public transport electronic ticketing system which is operational on all buses, trains and trams. The Seniors Card has the metroCARD technology built in which means you only have to carry one card to access discounts on goods and services and public transport.

Your Seniors Card is ready to use on public transport as soon as you receive it.

You'll need to validate your Seniors Card every time you board an Adelaide Metro bus, train or tram, even though your travel is free.

New and replacement Seniors Cards are issued through the Seniors Card Unit.

Free travel times

From 1 July 2022, Seniors Card members can travel free on bus, train and trams at all times.

Seniors Cards will only require credit if members would like to access discounted parking at the Tea Tree Plaza Park ‘n’ Ride. Make sure you validate your Seniors Card on board to ensure the discounted parking price is applied.

Interstate Seniors Card members

When visiting Adelaide from interstate, if you have a state-issued Seniors Card, you can access a MetroTicket for 14 consecutive days of free off-peak travel during your visit to Adelaide. Please note, National Seniors Card, Seniors Business Discount Card and New Zealand SuperGold Cards are not accepted.

Interstate Seniors Card members need to pay a concession fare to travel in peak times.

To order a MetroTicket online, you need a scan or photograph of the Seniors Card that clearly shows the card number and member's name, as you will upload it before submitting.

If you need to order tickets for more than one Seniors Card member, you must submit one form per person.

Order an interstate Seniors Card member 14-day free travel ticket.

Please allow 10 days between ordering your ticket and your departure date, to reduce the risk of your ticket not arriving in time.

If you are arriving in Adelaide within the next 10 days, you can present your Seniors Card at one of the following locations and they will give you a 14-day free off-peak travel ticket:

Adelaide Metro InfoCentre at the Adelaide Railway Station on North Terrace, Adelaide
Adelaide City Visitor Information Centre within the City of Adelaide Customer Centre at 25 Pirie Street, Adelaide
Adelaide Hills Visitor Information Centre at 68 Mount Barker Road, Hahndorf
Glenelg Public Library at 2 Colley Terrace, Glenelg
Gawler Visitor Information Centre at 2 Lyndoch Road, Gawler.

For more information about visiting Adelaide, visit the Adelaide Metro website.

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Comments

jv on 05/07/2022 - 01:34

+3

Why only Seniors?

Why not everyone ?
- AussieDaddy on 05/07/2022 - 02:22
  
  +7
  
  I have been a bus driver in Adelaide for many years and half of the commuters get on board with no valid metrocards/tickets anyway. And drivers are advised not to argue with fare evaders. Not sure about trains and trams, but there's hardly anyone who checks on metrocards/tickets on buses. So, I agree with you, they should make it free for everyone, as that would be fair to everyone if they let the fare cheaters get away with it.
  - Forfiet on 05/07/2022 - 03:44
    
    +1
    
    Yeah, There is plenty of people who don't scan their metrocards half the time and since we went cashless you can hardly make them pay as they board.
    
    Also marginal liability issues about not allowing people to A-B for safety sake(For example the 'no kid left behind' principle(nearly said policy, but is presumably up to driver discretion) )
    
    The train occasionally has inspectors, but also the charge stations to help enforce paying for a ticket….
    
    Even I ashamedly had a low charge card on my after midnight bus last weekend coming back from work(I guess even I didn't know how much a ride technically costs since using a metrocard) But I gather the idea of the after midnight service is getting drunks home safe and less of a nuisance/liability in the CBD…. :p
  - PainToad on 05/07/2022 - 05:32
    
    +1
    
    Let’s also let everyone take what ever they want from shops because some people shop lift and get away with it.
    - AussieDaddy on 05/07/2022 - 05:43
      
      +1
      
      There are a number of cities in Europe and the US with free public transport (Google it). One is subsidized by the government, and the other is people's property, so false equivalence. Also, with the high cost of cars, fuel, traffic congestion, high cost of living and the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change, making public transport free for everyone might be cost effective in the long run. Just a thought.
      - PainToad on 05/07/2022 - 07:12
        
        -1
        
        @AussieDaddy:
        
        There are a number of cities in Europe and the US with free public transport (Google it).
        
        Pass. I don’t want even higher taxes to subside others public transport costs even more than I already do.
        
        AustriaBargain on 05/07/2022 - 07:21
        
        +3
        
        @PainToad: Encouraging public transport use makes commutes faster for car drivers because it takes cars off the road.
        
        PainToad on 05/07/2022 - 08:35
        
        @AustriaBargain: The whole theory of public transport is flawed. There will never be enough people to give up the convenience and safety (COVID, flu, muggings, no seat belts etc.) of driving their own cars for there to be any sort of community wide benefit.
        
        So you end up with near empty buses driving around in circles in the suburbs for no reason, adding to emissions and traffic with near no advantage.
        
        To quote Elon Musk
        
        “I think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people, that doesn’t leave where you want it to leave, doesn’t start where you want it to start, doesn’t end where you want it to end? And it doesn’t go all the time. It’s a pain in the ass. That’s why everyone doesn’t like it. And there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great. And so that’s why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want.”
        
        AustriaBargain on 05/07/2022 - 08:47
        
        +1
        
        @PainToad: Well obviously self driving vehicles will revolutionise public transport soon enough. But that's still years away, until then we need public transport and we should be incentivising it. The number of people that can fit into a single train or bus compared to the number of cars they would take up on the road for the same commute is huge.
        
        PainToad on 05/07/2022 - 09:55
        
        +1
        
        @AustriaBargain:
        
        The number of people that can fit into a single train or bus compared to the number of cars they would take up on the road for the same commute is huge.
        
        Yes, that's the theory. But it will never happen because people simply don't like public transport and never will. Instead you have giant vehicles driving around with only few people in them.
        
        The real solution is WFH. With people driving their own cars into the CBDs only when required.
        
        Before COVID I caught public transport everyday. I haven't once since and never will again, free or not.
        
        AustriaBargain on 05/07/2022 - 10:57
        
        +2
        
        @PainToad: Of course you will get some times of the day where vehicles are driving empty, that's just a fact of life. It's like if you run a Dominos franchise, at 1pm you might get one customer per hour, but you need to stay open to service them anyway. Come the dinner rush you'll get hundreds of customers per hour. I'm sure Dominos would love to just open only during the rush hours but they can't do that, they need to stay open even when it's unprofitable. And public transport needn't be "profitable" at all hours. If you need to visit your mum at 11am then you'll need a bus running at around 11am. It's hardly a good public transport system if you need to wait until 4pm to catch a bus and find it packed solid with workers and students.
        
        PainToad on 05/07/2022 - 11:02
        
        -1
        
        @AustriaBargain:
        
        Of course you will get some times of the day where vehicles are driving empty, that's just a fact of life.
        
        So during those times, you've buses driving around emitting CO2 and clogging roads for no reason.
        
        It's hardly a good public transport system if you need to wait until 4pm to catch a bus and find it packed solid with workers and students.
        
        Your argument was that public transport was better because you can fit heaps more people into one vehicle. Which is completely pointless, when as you have just admitted, for most of the day there'll be next to no one in the vehicles.
        
        The only time public transport truely helps the environment is during peak hours when the buses/trains are actually full (well were before COVID, not now and probably never again).
        
        In off peak public transport is terrible for the environment - You've got massive vehicles (making way more emissions) driving around with the same (or less) people in them than personal cars that emit less.
        
        AustriaBargain on 05/07/2022 - 13:35
        
        +3
        
        @PainToad: Stopping public transport isn't an option so empty buses doesn't affect my argument at all. A good fraction of people don't have cars or can't drive, so we need public transport, which means at times buses will need to drive around empty sometimes. That's just how public transport works. You can't stop public transport because then some people won't be able to get to the shops, to the doctor, to work, etc. How would a blind person get around if you stopped public transport just because you can't stand seeing them empty sometimes? How would kids under 16 get around? Elderly people who can't drive? Or people who are too scared to drive?
        
        PainToad on 05/07/2022 - 14:59
        
        -1
        
        @AustriaBargain: Glad you're finally admitting public transport really has nothing to do with being better for the environment. It's a service for the community.
        
        I refer you back to my original comment.
        
        Pass. I don’t want even higher taxes to subside others public transport costs even more than I already do.
        
        People in need should get access to free or decreased rates, sure, but making it free for everyone, no. Why should I have to pay for the transportation of someone who makes good money, just because they don't want to own or drive their own car? There is also taxis and ride-share for those people.
        
        AustriaBargain on 06/07/2022 - 01:12
        
        +1
        
        @PainToad: Well if public transport was made free for example, then businesses could be taxed more to pay for it because 99% of commuters are either people going to work or people going to a business to buy something.
        
        Cheapskate Paul on 05/07/2022 - 15:47
        
        +1
        
        @PainToad: Yes, let's get the bus drivers to WFH too. Problem solved!
    - jv on 05/07/2022 - 09:20
      
      Let’s also let everyone take what ever they want from shops because some people shop lift and get away with it.
      
      I didn't say to do it illegally.
      
      Public transport should be free. First of all, you get rid of the ticketing system which would save heaps. Second of all, you would reduce private vehicle usage significantly. Less reliant on petrol, better for the environment…
- smartazz104 on 05/07/2022 - 07:20
  
  +4
  
  Isn't everyone in Adelaide a senior citizen?
  - Forfiet on 05/07/2022 - 07:26
    
    +3
    
    Get off my lawn smartazz!
  - jv on 05/07/2022 - 09:21
    
    Isn't everyone in Adelaide a senior citizen?
    
    Grumpy Kane Cornes definitely is…
  - crunchyhead on 05/07/2022 - 15:59
    
    That is seriously not fair!!!
    I know at least THREE people who aren't quite senior yet!
    And there are probably more!
- Circly on 05/07/2022 - 07:57
  
  Yeah it should be free for everyone. Bus drivers don't bother making people pay anymore.
  - AussieDaddy on 05/07/2022 - 08:27
    
    +1
    
    Bus drivers get abused if they ask fare evaders to validate their Metrocards, and the government doesn't want to (or can't) hold the cheaters accountable, so the contractors tell the drivers to concentrate on safe driving and not act as ticket police (they don't get paid enough to take all that abuse).
    - Circly on 05/07/2022 - 09:31
      
      +1
      
      Yeah it's not worth it.
      
      Behaviour on buses has gotten alot worse now. Especially since covid.
      
      It's not as safe for bus drivers or for other passengers. Although making it free will probably just encourage more ferals to jump on the bus. Can't win.
terrys on 05/07/2022 - 08:03

+2

You missed the best bit - if you are a senior with money on your card, you can pop down to the Adelaide Metro office and get a refund:-)
Benoffie on 05/07/2022 - 09:04

It's a stupid system. Better off reducing fares for everyone instead of having the blue rinse brigade running about for their messages.
- crunchyhead on 05/07/2022 - 16:01
  
  +3
  
  There are some very good economic and social arguments in favour of free public transport for all.
  But our governments rarely listen to very good arguments.