+Jayden Rice Thanks Jayden! :)

sounds like melburn lol

Neat!

My pleasure. Thanks Tim!

+Rose That’s me !! Thanks Rose!

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Thanks!

Just a reminder the price has been raised to $4.40

+AuMechanic Thanks for the extra navigation tips!

Cheers Also mention another thing about tram tracks is they all lead to the city like spokes of a wheel which can be helpful finding your way around. Same for trains, we don't have "cross town" trains or trams that don't terminate somewhere in the city eventually. You can ask someone how far the tram is away, walk to a tram line and every tram is going to the city or interchanges with one that is and same for trains. Once you get to a tram or train line they all go to town or away from town and that's marked at stations and stops. To get across town we usually have to go toward town on one line, to then go out of town on another line out.

Although buses may play the role of cross town public transport. I think it is time that Melbourne starts to implement cross town trains and trams so that people don't need to go into town to go across town. See what I mean?

Except for the 82 tram :) Doesn't go anywhere near the city & i wouldn't consider the interchange at the end of it, a change to go to the city

There are a few crosstown trams - the 96 (St Kilda to Brunswick), 109 (Port Melbourne to Box Hill), 6 (Glen Iris to Moreland) and 1 (South Melbourne to East Coburg) all pass through the CBD but start on one side and finish on another, usually south side to north side except the 109 which is more like south side to east side. There are also 2 trams that don't go into the CBD at all - the 82 (a small route from Footscray to Maribyrnong which are nearby suburbs in the inner west) and the 78 (North Richmond to Balaclava - although it's technically St Kilda, near the border of Balaclava - down Church & Chapel Streets).

+Bananafish Worshipper *smile*

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nah, you’d be bugging people trying to get on and off, and some places want you to give people privacy with all the concerns over privacy

i'm sure there is nothing to see -- you just tap your card when you leave the free cbd zone.

Thanks for the tip on linking Myki to your bank account. That's useful!

i was just wondering about that, thats how we do it now in nyc with the new omny card -- visiting soon so thanks!

@meesalikeu hi I'm not sure if that is valid information for the public transport system in Melbourne, I've been away for over 5 years. You may need to get more recent information elsewhere. I'm pretty sure it hasn't changed, but just to be sure. Hope you enjoy your time here in our great Southern Land.

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+Traci Stubbs Neat!

Me too I live in Albert road I leave at stop 24 VIC gardens changes to12 from 16

Traci Stubbs I have to walk everywhere because the last tram stop is like 2 kms from my house and buses suck

I catch the 64 or 5 trams twice daily from my house in Windsor to Collins street, city centre. It’s a beautiful journey, never gets old 😊

+landscaperben Just putting my California accent on it :)

Yellow Productions lol too funny

like how americans say mel-born, funny as.

ozzycarnut Americans are funny in general...

so, is anybody going to add how yarra actually should be said here...? thx

+Scottman895 Travel Hmmmm.. I don't recall if they make an announcement.. they do have signs at the stops though that say you are now leaving the free tram zone.

Scottman895 Travel normally there’s a voice over that will say you’ve entered/are travelling within the free tram zone and when you’re at the last stop/leaving the free tram zone. Sometimes if it’s busy it might be hard to hear, but there’s also signs at the tram stops to let you know

Awesome! That is great to know. Thanks for letting me know!

Scottman895 Travel yes there is

Yep, they do make an announcement. The announcement says ' The tram is now leaving the free tram zone'...Please touch on if you are travelling outside the free zone.'

+Hussain Arsiwala 30 days is $155 AUD

+Trang Nguyen Me too!

Don't be racist mate, not everyone in Melbourne is Asian (yet)

Including me! :)

Yes, Americans put the emphasis on the last syllable,.. 'bourne'...pronouncing it as in the movie 'Bourne Conspiracy'. .they also do it with Brisbane....They say Bris baaane, pronouncing bane as in vain/vane (weather vane) ..We say Melben/Melbin/Brisbin

​@@ingridclare7411 it's my experience that Americans always overpronounce stuff. "I-RAK". "Sem-EYE". "Mos-COW", "Mel-BOURNE", etc, etc.

It's called an accent, so what?

its pronounced mel-bin, not mel-born

What a tram stop looks like: Many tram stops in the City have either of these two: Some stops have a platform with a shelter in the middle of the street. Others don't have a platform and are separated from traffic by a fence followed by a yellow "Safety Zone" sign for the traffic. Access the both of these by either a pedestrian crossing or traffic lights, unless its Bourke Street Mall. Other stops in the suburbs are nearly like bus stops, in that you wait at the side of the road and hail down the incoming tram before it arrives to tell the driver to pick you up. In every case, look for the white and green signs that will show the stop name, route number(s) and destination. How to tell a boundary of the Free Tram Zone from onboard a tram: Take note of the streets and memorize the 'Hoddle Grid'; the main grid of the Melbourne CBD. Generally, it ends as you cross La Trobe St (north of the grid) towards Carlton, Spring St towards the east to Collingwood, and south across the Yarra River. Alternatively, they'll be bright green Free Tram Zone signs at the stops themselves, sometimes telling you how many stops you have left before you have to continue onwards with a Myki card, and particularly handy when you're on a crowded tram there will be announcements onboard telling you that same information.

BanksfielderIdiot3176 I have already visited back in October 2019.

@@floralscene Yep, I'm late to the comments section again. All good.

Step five: Run like hell when you see a PSO step inside with a reader. Step six: Apply for hospital insurance as you run out of breath and prepare for your no-holds-barred beatdown from said PSO

@@XTrapolis942M lol i hate fare evaders XD i wanna be an oficer and BY THE WAY ITS AN AUTHORISED OFFICER

That's how I do it in Poland too 😎

@@Alexander_Dunn PSOs as the meme prophesies are twice more vicious, which is why I mentioned them. Keep in mind that I'm going by continuous memes here. Yes, nearly all the regular myki checks in the present world are conducted by AUTHORISED OFFICERS as opposed to PSOs. But if the freeloader taking the P15S has to be dragged and tossed like a frisbee across Dandenong station (or St Kilda if we're still on about the tram), it won't be the AO's conducting THAT.

Completely forgot... Myki check with an Authorised Officer: Take it with a grain of salt. Myki check with a PSO armed with a baton: Run like hell

Are you planning to visit other parts of Australia? If so.. 3 days in Melbourne is probably good

I have 3 week

Americans call trams 'cable cars' ...because of the overhead electric cable!! They are the same thing. Check out San Francisco's cable cars...

@@ingridclare7411 thanks for the info :)

@@ingridclare7411 , sorry , wrong. The cable that propels cable cars is below the ground . What we Aussies call trams Americans call them streetcars , or trolleys.

Sydney made a huge mistake getting rid of their trams in 1961.

@@ingridclare7411 no they dont, the usa only calls the classic old sf trams cable cars. in any other city its generally called light rail. or otherwise cities have local names for it, like for example in cleveland you would call all their rail lines be they heavy rail or light rail 'the rapid' as in, "let's just ride the rapid over there."

+tgimul Pretty much

Kinda. I believe the 2 hour thing is really a hold over from the decades old paper ticketing system. The concept of the ticketing actually works more like Single or Daily, but instead of a 'single' fare you get 2 hours of use for the lower price. Basically it costs $8.20 (approx $6 USD) for unlimited daily travel on all trains, trams & buses; but if you only use it for less than 2 hours, you only pay half that. It's really a substitute for having a single-ride fare.

Don't forget that for $8.20 you can listen to the incessant sniffing or get coughed or sneezed on by the latest wave of migrants from Shanghai, apparently they don't cover their mouths in China or know what a tissue is. If you are Japanese or from any other civilised country, this is one city to avoid at all costs !!!!!

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+captnclam Thanks Captnclam!

That's for the whole week, with icing on the cake of course. Remember Melbourne the best City on the planet!

Yeah.. but those are passenger trips. Not 200 million distinct passengers.

big sigh -- same for every city in the usa too. it's a dam shame. i blame the oil and auto industry. and just plain stupidity for the fashion of the automobile at the time, we can't discount that either. i hate wide streets with no trams in the middle its uncivilized.

I bought my myki at a vending machine

Hey mate, you can buy a full fare myki card from a vending machine. If you want a concession one then you need to go to a 7-11.

slow your roll, he is not talking to melbourners, he is talking to tourists who come from places where they call trams by other names so they can relate and get it.

Americans always pronounce it like that. Same with Brisbane... They put emphasis on the 'bane' , so it rhymes with vain. Brisbaaane, when its pronounced Brisbin

just don't call the bourne identity star jason bin and we're all good.

Awww