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Free Public Transport for Christmas and New Year’s Eve after 6PM (Victoria)

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Free Public Transport for Christmas and New Year’s Eve after 6PM (Victoria)
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[Deactivated] on 02/12/2011 - 17:55 metlinkmelbourne.com.au (389 clicks)
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Passengers can travel free on Victoria’s public transport network on Christmas Day (25 December) and after 6pm on New Year’s Eve (31 December 2011).

On Christmas Day, all metropolitan trains and tram, and V/Line trains will run to a Sunday timetable.

Buses and regional coaches will run to a special timetable. For more information, check timetables.

New Year’s Eve travel is free from 6pm until the first normal scheduled service on New Year’s Day (1 January 2012).

Metropolitan trains, trams and NightRider buses will run all night to get you home.

Trains and trams will run to a normal Saturday timetable with extra services to and from the city.

Timetable information will be available soon. Check this website for updates.

On V/Line, there will be free travel on services that arrive in Melbourne after 6pm on New Year’s Eve, and free travel on the first service departing on each line on New Year’s Day.

On free travel days metropolitan ticket barriers will be open at all stations, so there’s no need for passengers to validate their Metcard or touch on or off with their myki.

Metropolitan passengers and regional town bus passengers who accidentally buy or validate tickets, or touch on your myki are not entitled to a refund. V/Line passengers who accidentally buy tickets can apply for a refund. Weekly or monthly tickets will not be extended.

More information available at http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/index.php?option=com_content&v…

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  • jacklynhydejr on 02/12/2011 - 18:21
    +4

    It should be free ALL the time. The trains are either late or cancelled. When you manage to get on one they are absolutely filthy. And if you do get on one, then happen to find a clean seat, you have to prey you don't get harassed by the hordes of young hooligans and drunks that terrorize the system.

    Bah humbug!

    • edBARGAIN on 02/12/2011 - 19:16
      +1

      very true

      the prices are to high and the service is so bad

      • engineeringprof on 02/12/2011 - 19:54
        +6

        If you could look past your whining, public transport is incredibly
        cheap compared with a car. When you add up the cost of buying a car, parking, tolls and petrol
        you would be looking at triple or quadruple the cost of a ticket.

        • mlburnian on 02/12/2011 - 23:20
          -2

          simply not true. How do you plan to get to the train station in the first place? Surely not a bus/es, that would just increase your travel time to something that's just not feasible.
          It's simply not possible to lead a normal social life in Melbourne without a car. Public transport is not cheap…

        • MiCCAS on 03/12/2011 - 01:13
          +3

          Walking is another option.

          I live a perfectly normal social life and I rarely drive the car - public transport is a heck of a lot cheaper, and for me it's less stressful than traffic.

        • Daniel15 on 03/12/2011 - 11:42

          @mlburnian: What about walking or riding a bike? And I catch a bus to the train station every day. Doesn't increase the travel time too much.

    • Super8Tab on 02/12/2011 - 23:02
      +1

      compared to sydney, melbourne's public transport is heaps better in terms of cleanness and free seats

      • wwwsam on 03/12/2011 - 23:48

        that is so very true… the sydney trains look very dull and dead compared to the melbourne trains.

    • bargdebarg on 03/12/2011 - 08:36
      +2

      Free public transport? What kind of utopia are you dreaming up here? I think what you meant to say was have a government run public transport system, raise taxes and remove fares so all of us pay for it regardless of if we use it. Nothing better than a well run government department…right?

  • Tal_Shiar on 02/12/2011 - 19:09
    -8

    Not a bargain, same situation every year

    It's no different than listing an item at everyday prices from wooolies

    • Forgot69 on 02/12/2011 - 19:26
      +9

      Except it is a bargain and as I've just moved to VIC I'm happy to now be aware of it. Cheers OP!

    • Tal_Shiar on 02/12/2011 - 20:15
      -5

      It might be useful to you, to the rest of the state it's like last weeks newspaper

  • tsunamisurfer on 02/12/2011 - 19:19

    Bring Pepper Spray or join them by wearing Collingwood colours.

    • jason101 on 02/12/2011 - 23:19
      +2

      As noted above I took part in this "bargain" one NYE while in Melbourne. It's great if you love to be crammed in a carriage with teens and pre-teens all yelling, drinking booze, fighting, vomitting and urinating AT THE SAME TIME (seriously it is scary). Unless you fit the "yobbo/hooligan" profile this bargain may best be avoided.

      • HealthyWealthy on 03/12/2011 - 02:52

        Agree with Jason (a Pom?) A bargain, but a scary one!

        Melbourne has great, cheap public transport compared with most world cities, but I wouldn't want to be using it at that time.

  • bargdebarg on 03/12/2011 - 08:33
    +1

    Why is this on ozbargs? This is all over the news…jeez

  • skinny on 03/12/2011 - 10:00
    -2

    This happens every year to keep drink drivers off road - not sure why this year is a bargain!

  • farfetchfilm on 03/12/2011 - 14:38

    Knew comments on this post would be hilarious, thanks jack & mlburnian for interpreting your minds, instead of thinking, I think I'll take advantage of this as I did back in 2007 and do Frankston to Melbourne late night Xmas date, on way 2 Confest eventuall, wonder if you could go from Melbourne to Swan Hill for free too? Doubt it that's a bit of vline hopin, great to think of how ridiculous drinking on a Christian holiday is and the potential for ghettos to truly occupy the cities transport, one say I discover the wonder of road rage sociability, ha.

    • Momotsuki on 04/12/2011 - 01:25
      -1

      If God didn't approve of consuming alcohol, why did Jesus turn water into wine?

  • farfetchfilm on 04/12/2011 - 12:41

    I always thought the old stables of coco cola conspitations would lead 2 Jason's comments, wonder if that will go down on my trip that morning from crib, goin to Cinema Nova and metlink said it would be all free for trips, just have to watch timetable. U do know that Jesus was always the poor mans shakespeare, imaginative for a Jew thought..

  • cdeep0 on 08/12/2011 - 11:01

    oh yeah…..it's been 7 years i stopped using trains….is that an opportunity?

    Merits - u might ask - No sick days ; no flu nothing since I left hopping on train….Now I know why so much people get sick at work…..germs germs ..

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