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Melbourne’s CBD (downtown) has been free for a few years. Damn it’s so convenient to travel around now without checking ticket credit
by alfiedotwtf 7y ago
Melbourne’s CBD (downtown) has been free for a few years. Damn it’s so convenient to travel around now without checking ticket credit
- toomanybeersies 7y agoThe free tram zone isn't that large though, it's maybe a 15-20 minute walk from one end to the other. What annoys me with Melbourne's public transport is that people taking short trips essentially subsidise those taking longer trips. It costs me almost $5 to go one stop on the train from Richmond to Flinders St, a 5 minute trip. It's also the same price for me to take a train all the way to Sandringham, which is 45 minutes.
- yitchelle 7y agoMaybe I have been away from Melbourne for too long, but isn't the free tram ride just a circle line around the perimeter of the CBD? I remembered it as a way of improving the tourism in city.
- alfiedotwtf 7y agoIt used to be just the brown tram doing a circle. Now it’s all trams within the CBD and extends the 86 down the end of Docklands
- alfiedotwtf 7y agoThat’s true. But when you have to travel across the city multiple times a day for meetings, it’s so convenient. Yeah, I hear you on the short trips. I just wish the state would take over Metro and Yarra and provide all of them for free
- sho 7y agoMelbourne's system is great and honestly makes the city just that much more attractive. I know people who live, work and play inside the loop and they basically never leave - wouldn't even think of owning a car. Why would they? That's how it should be. Public transport should simply be considered a public good deliverable free or nearly free by government, like footpaths or parks or Medicare. It should be considered a basic function of society - and if you want to go private, you pay.
- alfiedotwtf 7y agoThis, but you're preaching to the choir :)