State Transit Authority of New South Wales - Tickets and Fares

Tickets and Fares

Sydney Buses and Western Sydney Buses services charge fares on the basis of distance. Newcastle Buses & Ferries bus services charge fares on the basis of travel time. Journeys on Newcastle buses within a certain area of the CBD are zero-fare during the day. Fares are set by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales.

Fares are calculated on the number of sections travelled, where one section is approximately 1.6 km.

State Transit services uses a variety of tickets under the MyZone structure. These include single ride tickets bought on board buses or from selected resellers, MyBus TravelTen, MyMulti, Pensioner Excursion Ticket and MyMulti DayPass. Multiple use tickets offer benefits to people who travel frequently on buses.

On single ride tickets, the registration number (bus ID) is printed on the top left side, the time of travel, route number and direction of travel is printed on the bottom. For TravelTen tickets, the route number is printed on the left, followed by the section number, then the direction of travel, the time of travel, the registration number (bus ID) and the trip number.

State Transit services use the Automated Fare Collection System and its magnetic stripe multi-ride tickets. In 2006, the 333 Route (Bondi Beach) service was the subject of a prepay only test. The test was successful and further prepay routes have been introduced. In 2009, the STA progressively rolled out prepay only to all CBD bus stops between 7 AM & 7 PM.