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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

School Rail Pass or Concession GoCard - Cost per year

A school rail pass Oxley - Indooroopilly = $429.20 per year
A concession GoCard cost for the same trip is $2.20 per trip.
Estimate 4 terms 37 school weeks per year.

GoCard can be used anytime anywhere so you end up with one anyway.
GoCard is a right royal pain in the ass beacuse of the touch off issues waste time.
School rail pass can only be used for the home-school & return trip.  on the train.

The complexity is school sport.
So if we do more than 6 trips then the rail pass is cheaper so if one took the train to school 2 days a week and came home four days a week = 6 trips / week on the train then thats the break even point.





As a FYI, if there were 40 school weeks per year























So if we do


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