Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced that public transport will be free across the state this summer.
Free travel will be available to all passengers on all forms of public transport across both metropolitan and regional areas.
The initiative aligns with the opening of the state’s new Metro Tunnel, which begins operating in early December.
The Government is yet to announce an exact date, meaning it also remains unclear when the free public transport period will come into effect.
The Metro Tunnel
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The Metro Tunnel delivers five new underground stations connecting Melbourne’s western and eastern suburbs through an end-to-end train line.
When it starts in early December, it will initially only operate for five hours a day on weekdays, and nine hours on weekends. From February, it will operate more regularly.
Earlier this year the Victorian Opposition, which had previously criticised the project, called the “soft opening” a “smokescreen to hide the fact that they've botched this project from start to finish.”
