Touching on and touching off

If you are using myki money, you always need to touch on and touch off to get the lowest myki fare.

If you do not touch off, the system doesn’t know where you have travelled and you will be charged a default fare that may be more than you should have paid for your trip.

If you are travelling with a myki pass you will not be charged a default fare as long as you touch on in the zone/s for which your myki pass is valid. Free travel pass holders are not charged if they forget to touch off.

 

Metropolitan trains
 

Each time you enter or exit a train station, you must touch on at the myki reader at the start of your journey and touch off at the myki reader at the end.

Please note: this includes V/Line services in Zone 1 + 2 to Melton and Sunbury.

Default fare

If you do not touch off, you will be charged with a two hour Zone 1 and 2 myki money fare.
   

Metropolitan trams
 

You must touch on at the myki reader at the start of your journey. However, you only need to touch off if your whole trip is in Zone 2.

To avoid delays, please wait until you have entered the vehicle safely before you touch on and touch off shortly before you exit.

Default fare

If you do not touch off, you will be charged with a two hour Zone 1 myki money fare.
   

Metropolitan buses
 

You must touch on at the myki reader at the start of your journey and touch off at the myki reader at the end.

Default fare

Buses that operate within one zone: If you do not touch off, you will be charged a two hour myki money fare for the zone you are travelling in (Zone 1 or 2).

Buses that operate across two zones: If you do not touch off, you will be charged a two hour myki money fare for the zone you touched on. If you touched on in the Zone 1 and 2 overlap, you will be charged a Zone 2 myki money fare.

 

If you use myki to travel entirely within zones 1 and 2 on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, you will pay no more than $3 per day. Please note: this applies to full fare travel only.