Have your say on proposed changes to your tram services
PTV and Yarra Trams are proposing changes to Melbourne’s tram network.
More people are using our trams and many of them want to access the western streets of the CBD.
PTV and Yarra Trams have developed proposals that aim to address overcrowding, relieve congestion along the St Kilda Road/Swanston Street corridor and provide more consistent service frequencies across the tram network.
This will mean changes that include combining Route 55 and 8, altering the start / finish locations and times for Routes 1 and 6.
PTV and Yarra Trams want your views on the proposed changes.
Why are PTV and Yarra Trams proposing the changes?
The proposed changes aim to provide a more balanced network with more trams servicing western sections of the city to address growing demands and to deliver a more frequent, accessible and reliable services:
- Turn up and go service, every ten minutes (or better) along St Kilda Road
- Safer, more comfortable journeys
- More access to the growing western CBD and Docklands areas
- More low floor, accessible trams, including to the Parkville health precinct of three major hospitals and the Melbourne Zoo.
PTV and Yarra Trams are upgrading the tram network to improve access and journey time reliability along tram routes.
Over-crowding and longer wait times
As our streets get busier, tram traffic can often become congested and ‘bunching’ occurs, leading to overcrowding at some peak times. We want your tram journey to be reliable, safe and comfortable.
Bigger, low-floor, accessible trams
We also want to make tram travel easier for passengers who require accessible, low-floor trams for those with a vision or mobility impairment, as well as passengers with prams or trolleys.
More E-Class trams will operate on the tram network to provide greater access and reliability.
Why propose changes?
The proposed changes aim to provide a more balanced network with more trams servicing western sections of the city to address growing demand.
“Turn up and go” service
We want to make the tram network easy for everyone to use. To help achieve this, the proposed changes will move towards a ‘turn up and go’ service with a frequency of ten minutes (or better) across the network throughout week days.
At all other times, trams will operate at no more than twenty minute intervals. This would help create greater certainty about the frequency of tram services for passengers and decrease the need for timetables.
What is being proposed?
Download the proposed tram route structure (PDF) 1.2MB
The proposed changes in more detail
The merging of Routes 8 and 55
By merging routes 8 and 55, more trams can service the western CBD. The new route will operate between Toorak and West Coburg, via the Domain Interchange. It will then travel up William Street rather than Swanston Street to take people travelling to the western CBD streets closer to their destination. Customers who currently use Route 55 to travel into the western end of the CBD will not have to change their behaviour and can stay on the proposed Route 58 to get to their destination, as they do now.
If the proposed change was to go ahead, passengers who currently travel from Toorak Road into the Arts Centre precinct or to destinations along Swanston Street would need to change trams at the Domain Interchange. The wait time added to the trip would be only a minute during peak times and two minutes at all other times.
Route changes to 1 and 6
Route 1: Route 1 currently travels up Nicholson Street all the way up to East Coburg. Under the proposed changes Route 1 services will travel along Moreland Road between Nicholson Street past Moreland Station.
Route 6: Under the proposed changes, Route 6 would extend past Melbourne University to continue along Lygon Street/Nicholson Street to East Coburg. Passengers who currently use Route 1 to travel north of Moreland Road on Nicholson Street, would instead be able to use Route 6.
Tell us what you think - take the survey
The survey is now closed.
Public Transport Victoria and Yarra Trams would like to thank everyone who took the time to provide their feedback on the proposed changes.
We are currently collating and analysing all the responses received.
For routes: 3/3a, 5, 11, 12, 16, 19, 30, 35, 48, 55, 57, 59, 64, 67, 70, 72, 75, 78, 82, 86, 96, 109 there are no changes to routes proposed.
