Sydney Public Transport

Sydney public transport includes the cityrail, buses and Sydney ferries.

If you are a tourist or just want to get quickly to some of Sydney attractions or inner suburbs, hop on the monorail or tram. Or get a taxi. You can also use the free city shuttle bus.

With its huge urban footprint Sydney needs a strong infrastructure and public transport.

While the infrastructure is good, you need to plan ahead and gather information if you want to use the public transport.

The infrastructure is continuously developing with more roads being built from scratch or modernised.

Like the construction of the M7 motorway (on the left), finished in 2005.

Other recent road projects include the cross city tunnel and Lane Cove tunnel.

They shorten travel time but don't come cheap.

For example, if you catch a taxi, you will pay the fare plus all the tolls that apply to some roads, bridge, tunnels or airport. The driver will probably ask you whether you want to take a route with tolls or an alternative longer route.

Sydney buses stop on George Street, near Central Station

Sydney Public Transport, What Tickets and Where to Buy Them?

You can buy single, return, off-peak and longer term tickets when you travel by cityrail.

If you use more than one public transport service buy a MyMulti ticket for a day, week, month, quarter or year. It will allow you to travel as much as you want on all buses and Sydney ferries during the respective period.

There are three MyMulti tickets. With any of them you can travel on Cityrail, in addition to buses and ferries. Tell your ticket vendor what rail station you want to go to and they will tell you what ticket to get. For example to get around the City and north to Chatswood you need a MyMulti 1. To go to Parramatta or Hornsby get a MyMulti 2. If you travel furhter to the outer suburbs get a MyMulti 3.

For Sydney buses only, pay cash to the driver or purchase in advance a MyBus TravelTen - 10 tickets which come with a discount. Some buses will only accept a prepaid ticket.

If you are a visitor or want to make the most of one day buy a MyMulti Day Pass to use on any train, bus and Sydney ferries.

To buy tickets go to cityrail train stations, Sydney buses transit shops or ferries wharves. You can also find them at some newsagents and convenience stores.

You need separate tickets to travel in Sydney on monorail or light rail.

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