Sorry You Cheeky Sydney-Siders, The ‘Short Trip’ Opal Grift Has Been Foiled

Oh you bloody cheeky buggers!! You’ve been caught red-handed! Your jig is up! Your fare-scuttlin’ days are over! 

Sydney’s passion for not paying for public transport has been made one notch harder today, after the NSW Government has finally put measures in place to stop ‘The Great Opal Grift of the Twenty-Teens’.
Basically, passionate Sydney-siders would tap on and off using their Opal cards at stations super that are close to one another. Once they did that eight times, they’d get free travel for the rest of the week, for only $18. GENIUSES!
But, no more, champs. ~The Man~ AKA the stuffed shirts who probably haven’t caught a bus or said the words ‘sorry I can’t this weekend, I’m broke’ in goddamn decades, have upped the amount of close transfers needed to earn free travel. 

“What we’re now saying is instead of it being three transfers, we’re taking it to seven, so for someone to game the system you’d have to basically spend almost six hours doing it,” said Transport Minister Andrew Constance.
Yeah, w/e Constance. 
But really though Sydney, NICE WORK on that mad rorting. You got away with it for like, over a year! That took some serious dedication.
It ain’t easy being paid pocket-change when you’re living in a city that demands big bills, y’know. 

Source: ABC
Photo:. Opal

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