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Free Public Transport on Christmas Day (All Day) and New Years Eve (after 6pm) - VIC

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Public transport will be free across Victoria on Christmas Day and after 6pm on New Year’s Eve.

On Christmas Day, public transport across the state will be free all day, allowing everyone to leave the car at home and enjoy Christmas celebrations with family and friends.

All night public transport and free Zone 1 + 2 travel from 6pm New Year’s Eve until 6am on New Year’s Day will mean that revellers will not have to cut their celebrations short, as metropolitan public transport will run all night.

On New Year’s Eve, travel on V/Line will be free for passengers who touch on between 6pm, Saturday, 31 December 2016 and 6am Sunday, 1 January 2017.

Travel is also free on the first timetabled service departing Melbourne on Sunday, 1 January 2017 for V/Line services to non-myki areas in regional Victoria.

Passengers do not need to travel with a valid myki during periods of free travel, and if they do accidentally touch on they will not be charged a fare.

Timetable and service information for Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve will be available soon.

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  • +1

    who would want to work on christmas day anyway….

    • +19

      Santa….

      • He doesn't he only work on Christmas eve?

        • +9

          International Time zones dude.

    • +1

      I'm working 14 hours on Christmas day but I'll be home between 7:30am and 4:30pm 😀

    • +10

      214 bucks per hour that's why.

      • The drivers?! :O

    • +1

      a lot of people, now Christmas Day is a public holiday

  • +11

    Nearly fell off my chair thinking this was for Sydney.

    • +7

      That's crazy talk. Reasonably priced public transport even for a day won't happen.

    • +4

      Should've gone to specsavers

    • So this kind of thing doesn't happen in Sydney?

  • +2

    In before anyone says this isn't a deal.

    • This isn't a deal.

      • You ruined the flow to JV dude.. ruined it.

    • +1

      Perhaps people don't have such a long term memory as you and need prompting each year!

      • jv needs prompting every year alright…

  • +1

    What do to do apart from going to office (if you are working) on Xmas day. Everything will be closed.

    • +3

      Enjoy being able to walk around without the crowds, the parks, bbq, getting on a CBD tram withouth being crushed, etc,
      Mainly to support travel to Christmas parties/visiting family and friends not necessarily CBD shopping.

    • +2

      The casino will be open. Imagine turning that $7 ticket saving into a $70 000 pokies win!

      • -1

        And imagine turning that back to -$1000 for over estimating the power of gambling…

        • +2

          …and then into $1 000 000! What a Christmas day that would be!

  • Free fireworks too! ;-)

  • +2

    Good chance to teach the kids how to use public transport

    • +3

      Except when they later try to use it, and get nailed up for fare evasion! :)

  • My experiences of trams in Melbourne is that the locals treat all trams as being in the 'free zone' and the only ones that are tapping on and off are tourists.

    • +4

      I always tap on because I rarely use them and you never know when the SS are patrolling.

      • Exactly. Is either a $4 fare or four uniformed freaks crash-tackling some poor bastard to the ground

    • +1

      That's not true. There are always bad hats around anywhere and not everyone is dishonest!

      • -3

        Of course it is true; it is my experience.

        The 'free zone' was introduced because the govt gave up trying to police the amount of evasion. Although they wouldn't admit it.

        Next time you are on a tram to St Kilda for example; just count the numbers of ppl that don't tap off.

        • +7

          You only need to tap off a tram if you cross between zones. CBD to St Kilda is all within Zone 1 so no tap off required. However, that is assuming they tapped on (even in the free zone) knowing they were going to be going that far.

        • +1

          Personally, I have a Myki pass so I'll always tap on, but never off. Much faster, especially when getting off a bus.

        • +5

          So it's people like you who delay the tram by unnecessarily touching off in zone 1. Of course the only ones touching off from a 96 are the tourists - locals should know better.

        • +3

          I rarely tap off anything unless there are fare gates. If I'm using Myki I'm invariably going to make at least 2 journeys in one day - activating the daily cap. There doesn't seem to be any incentive to tap off in that scenario (I'm never "fined" for it - it just registers the maximum fare which I should be paying anyway).

    • most of the CBD is a free tram zone, so it is only tourists tapping on and off because they are the people blocking the flow of people on and off the tram

    • +4

      With a pass you do not have to tap anything, if the pass is valid the ticket is valid no matter what state of tapped on/offness. Been checked multiple times by inspectors and it was fine with a valid pass and not tapped on. Tapping on/off just slows the passenger flow.

      • I even asked an inspector and they confirmed that if you don't tap on but your pass is active, you won't be fined.

        That being said, on trains if your exit is a gated station, you will have to see staff to exit (making it harder for you). On teams and buses, no issue.

        • +1

          So if I have a valid myki pass that hasn't expired, I don't have to tap on, but I still have to make sure I have it with me to not get fined?

        • +1

          @tastycheeks: yes, exactly.

  • +3

    Does this include the airport line as well?

    • +1

      :'(

    • +4

      not even in year 2116 Christmas day.

    • +7

      Sure bro, at Platform 9¾

    • +1

      What Airport Line? It's the monopoly Skybus for Melbourne airport. Did I hear they were having another price-hike just in time for Christmas?

      Of course, there's the 901 bus to Broadmeadows station, but a bit "round the world"

    • +4

      Your sentence starts off well but derails faster than a train in a Michael Bay movie.

      • -3

        2016 has a record temperature drop in 2nd half of the year

        "But, professor Judith Curry, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and president of the Climate Forecast Applications Network, disagrees.

        She told the Mail on Sunday: “I disagree with Gavin. The record warm years of 2015 and 2016 were primarily caused by the super El Nino.”

        She said evidence suggested the rate of global warming had ben slower since 1998 until the 2015 El Nino.

        She believes science needs to wait at least another five years before it can be assessed which is more responsible for temperature rises - the natural El Nino, or man-made emissions."

        Next scam is to say man made El Niño
        I was downvoted by left wing fanatical Hillary loving social justice warriors

        • +2

          How sweet your world must be.

        • -1

          http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Judith_Curry

          Another idiot cherry picking results to suit their political outlook of the world. Holds a degree in Geography so obviously she gets climate science better than people with degrees in that.

        • @Diji1:
          If you were logically correct it would mean it was impossible for me to understand legal, technical and child safety matters better than a qualified judge, independent children's lawyer and many police officers and detectives.

  • +4

    Also free public transport in Canberra on Christmas day (for the 1000 people that are in Canberra on the day).

  • -2

    All aboard the loser cruiser!

  • -2

    Not really a freebie. It's like saying the free tram zone is a freebie

    • +4

      scratches head the free tram zone is in the city only..

  • -1

    ppl still paying for melb trams?
    im not paying till they bring back conductors

    • What do the AO's think of that?

    • they have a crap load of inspectors now

  • Here's hoping Perth does something similar

  • And plus you get complimentary body sweat smell !

  • it'll be amazing any of the trains run on time or aren't faulty

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