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The trial of Victoria’s new myki-free payment system on Wangaratta’s bus network

I travelled to the last place you’d expect for a glimpse of our myki-free future

Melburnians have to travel a long way to see what public transport is like in the 21st century.

  • Patrick Hatch

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The Parramatta light rail was due to open in the middle of this year after being delayed from 2023.

Parramatta’s long-delayed light-rail line cleared for opening

After repeated delays, trams are finally set to start carrying passengers along the 12-kilometre line through the heart of Sydney’s second CBD.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Victoria and Conduent are at loggerheads about the cost of upgrading myki.

Touch-on stand-off: State government in dispute with US firm over myki upgrade

The Victorian government and the company building its $1.7 billion new public transport ticket system are locked in an acrimonious legal stand-off which has threatened to derail the rollout of a long-awaited myki replacement.

  • Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney
History worth reviving: the tram on Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, in 1946 and Venice’s famed bell tower, the Campanile of St Mark, which collapsed in 1902 but was rebuilt by 1912.

Sydney’s surprise resemblance to Venice has a lesson for us all

Venice’s brutal modernisers did not want to rebuild their collapsed bell tower. The city persevered, as should Sydney with its long-lost people movers, the trams.

  • Antone Martinho-Truswell
Passengers waiting to board a packed tram in the free zone on Friday.

Free tram rides to the MCG, Victoria Market come at a price

Calls to expand Melbourne’s free tram zone to landmarks and inner suburbs have been shot down by transport advocates who say paying commuters are being crowded out.

  • Patrick Hatch
Melbourne’s tram network is the largest in the world.

New operator to take over Melbourne tram network

The state government says the new contract includes strict benchmarks, but user advocates say it’s up to the government to deliver the network’s most pressing upgrades.

  • Patrick Hatch
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Green Square light rail

Revealed: Plans for new 11km light-rail run on one of Sydney’s busiest roads

The plans from a consortium behind the city’s light-rail network include about 21 stops along the new route.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Commuters face major disruptions to light rail services on Wednesday.

Commuters face major disruptions to Sydney light rail services

Tram drivers and other operational staff will stop work for four hours on Wednesday during peak periods as part of industrial action.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Two segments of tram tracks near Vic Market on Victoria Street will be connected.

The 50-metre ‘missing link’ fix that will open new cross-city tram routes

For almost a century, two sections of Melbourne’s sprawling tram network have passed tantalisingly close together outside Queen Victoria Market but never joined. That is to change.

  • Patrick Hatch
Martin Leckey can’t use the Sydney Road trams near his home because they are not wheel chair accessible.

Brunswick’s ‘sky rail’ has been delayed. In the meantime, this is what locals want

Advocates have presented their Sydney Road wish list to the Victorian government, saying the delay is an opportunity for major change before the Upfield line is ripped up.

  • Patrick Hatch

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