An updated review on Opal - It is still a scam.

I want to revisit Opal tonight.

There are still pushes for people to switch from paper tickets to MyMulti with the NSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian saying people will save.

I did some calculations today as I'd moved from where I was the last time I wrote a post about Opal and although I would save $6.22 a week if I moved from MyMulti to Opal that assumes a couple of things.  It assumes that I only use the card to get to and from work and the gym seven days a week.  It assumes that I travel limited trips.

At the moment, MyMulti entitles me to unlimited travel for $48 per week, which equates to $6.85 per day.

You may have heard that Opal charges are inconsistent and people are having issues with fare calculations  Assuming I used the Opal equivalent of $15 a day for unlimited travel my transport costs would increase by $8.15 per day.  That would be a total of $105 per week.

It's clear the Transport Minister wants people to switch to Opal so she can increase the cost of travel sneakily and without explicitly stating that.

Until the fares come down and there is consistency I won't be switching to Opal a second before I have to.  Why would people choose to pay more than they already are?  Why would people choose to lose flexibility that they presently have?  Currently I can travel as much as I like for only $6.85 a day.  I'm not going to voluntarily pay double.

I just can't believe some people have been sucked into using Opal already when there are still alternatives.  The longer is is before people switch from paper tickets to Opal the longer the Minister will have to keep them.