[VIC] Free Public Transport on Christmas Day & New Year’s Eve (Trams, Trains, Buses)

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tightarse on 21/12/2024 - 14:07 premier.vic.gov.au (996 clicks)
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Hey guys. Wishing you and your loved ones a safe & happy festive season 🧑‍🎄🎄😊

The Allan Labor Government is making it easier for families to celebrate the festive season with two days of free public transport across the network.

Minister for Public and Active Transport Gabrielle Williams today announced public transport will be free on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve across all metro and regional trains, trams and buses.

On Christmas Day, metropolitan and regional public transport will run to a regular Sunday timetable and will be free from 3:00am Wednesday, 25 December until 3:00am on Boxing Day.

V/Line passengers on reserved services still need to book their Christmas Day and New Year's Eve travel and will be issued a ticket free of charge. No ticket is required for regional bus travel.

To bid farewell to 2024, catching a train, tram or bus is your best ticket for the night with free travel from 6:00pm on New Years Eve. V/Line long distance passengers on services that arrive in Melbourne after 6:00pm will also enjoy free travel.

Victorians can celebrate well into the night, with extra services to operate and free travel until 6:00am on New Year's Day.

For V/Line passengers, the first service from Melbourne to all regional destinations on New Year's Day will also be free, regardless of whether it departs before or after 6:00am.

This New Year’s Eve, all City Loop stations will operate until 3:00am to provide more options and to minimise crowding at Flinders Street and Southern Cross stations.

Source: https://www.miragenews.com/free-public-transport-this-christ…

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  Sammyboy on 22/12/2024 - 00:25

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  Next minute…transport strike, union demanding an additional 22% payrise

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    Trying2SaveABuck on 31/12/2024 - 20:49

    Be realistic 32%

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  xiaozaocha on 22/12/2024 - 08:12

  and we may have a strike in Nsw

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  Maz78 on 22/12/2024 - 09:13

  Whoop-dee-doo. Free PT on 2 days that you're not really going to care about or likely use.
  Our Brissy mates pay 50c anytime.
  Good old Victoria. Constantly (profanity) the people.

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    boomslung on 31/12/2024 - 20:48

    Why do you think it's free? Maybe to encourage economic activity and reward the enterprising.

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  wetsandwich on 22/12/2024 - 10:36

  Free, or paying about twice as much tax for all the corrupt waste than we need to be if politicians remembered who pays them?

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  Shame on 22/12/2024 - 10:51

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  A lot of immigrants take advantage of this and go to Ballarat on Christmas day. When they get there nothing is open and they just walk around the streets looking at all the closed shops

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  spv004 on 25/12/2024 - 15:33

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  Witnessed atleast a dozen tapping on bus today. Commendable dedication.

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    spv004 on 25/12/2024 - 15:55

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    Apparently on train as well now

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  Counter Intelligence on 27/12/2024 - 17:17

  NSW came close to this but failed due to the unions folding.

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  getk on 27/12/2024 - 20:28

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  enjoy while it lasts before VIC govt goes bust.. not sure which states can take on the debt of Victoria once iron ore prices go down

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  sabby32 on 31/12/2024 - 08:46

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  Oh woopty-doopty how generous is our government!!! NOT! Price hikes coming our way as soon as the NY ticks over and they offer us a measley 2 free days of p/t. Last year it was absolute mayhem trying to get out of the city post midnight fireworks. They can't get anything right in the SH1T state of Victoria.

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  jazlet on 31/12/2024 - 18:14

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  free so they don't need to check the crowds, nice.

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