Action for Public Transport (N.S.W.) Inc.

Since 1st July 2004, you can travel on nearly all transport in South East Queensland with just one TransLink ticket. Passengers on Brisbane City Council buses and ferries, on trains far as Gympie, Helidon and the Gold Coast and on most private bus companies in that area need buy only one ticket for their whole journey.

This was done with little change to the existing technology. No smart cards were necessary to integrate both the tickets and the fares.

The area has 23 concentric zones, with graduated fares through each zone. Zone 4 extends to Sandgate (20 km), The Gap, Darra and Mt Gravatt. Zone 7 to Ipswich (39 km), zone 8 to Caboolture and Beenleigh, zone 17 to Nambour, 18 to Coolangatta and 23 to Gympie.

The all-modes tickets available are:

• singles, including transfers within two hours. For one zone, the fare is $2.00, and it increments by 40 cents to nine zones and then by 80 cents to 23 zones.
• all-day tickets for twice the price of a single
• weeklies costing eight times the single fare up to ten zones (about 65 km), 7.5 times for zone 11, seven times for zone 12, .and 6.5 times the single fare beyond that
• monthlies costing four times the weekly for each zone.

Single operator tickets include:

• BCC Ten Trip Savers, providing a standard 20% discount off the single bus fare for all zones
• CityTrain 3, 6 and 12 month passes.

See http://www.translink.com.au.