Getting Around Melbourne

Getting Around Melbourne Through Tram.

Whether you are visiting Melbourne for the business of for pleasure, you will need to get around this beautiful city to explore its famous attraction sites, enjoy excellent restaurants, exhibitions events, shopping, and festivals. The here are various means of transport to take you around the city which includes the buses, train, bikes and the trams. In this article, we will discuss getting around Melbourne using the trams.

Melbourne has the largest tram network in the whole world with 250 kilometers of a double track, which are operated by Yarra Trams. They are convenient, reliable, and comfortable means of transport. They are an easy way to see the entire city’s best attraction, sports, shopping areas, and venues. Important safety rule when using the trams is that you should look, listen and be alert at all times. For you to use a tram, you need to buy a Melbourne ticket to travel on the tram called Myki. As a visitor in Melbourne, you can buy Myki visitor value pack ticket which you can get from the Melbourne Visitor Centre at Federation Square, Sky bus terminals at Melbourne airport, Southern Cross Station, PTV Hubs and they are also available at concierge desk in most hotels and accommodation providers. However, if you are traveling only within the free zone, you do not need to use myki card. You can check on Yarra timetables to see which are the free zones.

Trams are boarded from every public transport stations and will drop you in various designated drop zones around the city. They operate in a very flexible timetable, between 5 am to midnight on Monday all through to Thursday, and all the night on Friday and Saturday, Sunday they run from 7 am to 11 pm. Yarra tram services operate on a 24-hour system in entire Melbourne’s network and offer a free city circle to tourists.

The tram services that are common are; City Circle service, which is run within the town; Melbourne’s Central district. They operate on a circular route that passes through some of the Melbourne’s best tourist’s attractions, shopping precincts as well as linking with the other trams from other routes around the city. They operate in both directions in every twelve minutes between 10 am and 6 pm from Sunday – Wednesday and extended hours, 10 am to 9 pm Thursday, Fridays and on Saturdays. Clockwise Service is usually run on the following route; Flinders Street > Harbour Esplanade > Docklands Drive > La Trobe Street > Victoria Street > Nicholson Street > Spring Street > Flinders Street; the same with the anticlockwise service.

To get the best of tram services, you need to get a timetable to help you know the estimated arrive time of the next tram so that you can be at the station when it arrives. However, with the advanced technology, you can download a Tram Tracker on your Smartphone; an app that will allow you to find out when the next tram is due to arrive at their designated stop, right from your phone.