NSW Public Transport Concessions
Related Links
- Recent Changes in NSW Public Transport Concessions
- Information for Administrators and Issuers: Concessions for Students
- Quick Reference Guides: Find Out What Concession Card You Need for Each Service
- School Student Transport Scheme (SSTS)
- Taxi Transport Subsidy Scheme (TTSS)
The NSW Government's Bus Reform Program:
The NSW Government provides subsidised or concession travel to a wide range of people within specified target groups. These include: school and tertiary students, jobseekers, apprentices and trainees, the vision impaired, certain ex-members of the Defence Forces, pensioners, NSW Seniors Card holders and war widow/ers. The Ministry of Transport's role is to provide advice to Government on concession policy issues and administer the contractual arrangements for transport concessions on regulated bus, train and ferry services.
As part of the NSW Government's Bus Reform program, new contracts for the delivery of bus services have been implemented in metropolitan Sydney and the outer-metropolitan areas:
- Newcastle,
- the Lower Hunter,
- the Central Coast,
- the Blue Mountains, and
- the Illawarra.
Under these new contracts, past differences in concession entitlements available on government and private services have been removed. This means eligible concession beneficiaries - including pensioners, NSW Seniors Card holders, senior secondary students, eligible tertiary students, apprentices and trainees, and vision impaired persons - can access an expanded range of concession benefits.
New arrangements for rural and regional areas are currently under development as part of the Rural and Regional Bus Reform process. There has been no change to private ferry arrangements.
More information on the recent changes in concession and concession card arrangements for children, young people, senior secondary students, tertiary students and senior secondary students, apprentices and trainees, vision impaired persons, NSW Seniors Card holders, and NSW Pensioner Concession Card holders.
Who are the concessions for?
Click on the links below for more information about the benefits available to each of the following target groups:
| Young people - children and students: | People with disabilities: |
| People who are workforce aged: | Older citizens: |
