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Trams pass trains on the Flinders Street Viaduct in the Melbourne CBD

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia has lots of transport contentions by air, sea, and on land. It has the largest tram network in the world, the most extensive freeway network of any Australian city, the busiest container port in the country, the second busiest airport and the second largest suburban rail network.


Images for kids

  • Tram next to a bus, with a train passing above

    Yarra Trams Z-class tram beside a Melbourne Bus Link Scania bus, with a Metro Trains X'Trapolis 100 passing above

  • Melbourne metropolitan public transport patronage from 1994

    Chart showing annual public transport patronage in Melbourne by mode.

  • A Transdev Melbourne bus in orange and white PTV livery.

    A Transdev Melbourne bus in PTV livery on Queen Street, Melbourne.

  • Silver, purple and yellow three-carriage train waiting at a railway station.

    A V/Line VLocity diesel train at Wyndham Vale railway station in PTV livery.

  • Orange freight train

    Pacific National locomotive at the Melbourne Steel Terminal, June 2006

  • See caption

    Container crane and ship at Swanson Dock East

  • A plane taking off, with a control tower in the foreground

    Melbourne Airport

  • Divided eight-lane highway

    The Eastern Freeway, looking towards Melbourne

  • Row of blue rental bicycles

    Melbourne Bike Share station on Macarthur Street

  • Yellow Toyota taxi

    A Melbourne taxi

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