Melburnians are all too familiar with trying to cross busy a intersection in the CBD as cars attempting to turn left inch their way forwards into the crossing pedestrians, or worse, cars turning right chance a dash through the line of crossing pedestrians. A recent RACV article stated that there has been a 43% increase in pedestrian traffic in the CBD since 2001, with many 1,000s of pedestrians crossing busy intersections like Spencer and Collins Streets every hour.

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Melbourne’s inner southeast has quite a few tram routes - the 64, 67, 3, 5 and 6. The problem is that, bar Route 6, they don’t really terminate somewhere very useful; most just end in a residential area, perhaps surrounded by a few shops. There are historical reasons for this - in the past tram lines were each run by separate companies and competed for business with the railways, which were also run as private enterprises.

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In this series entitled Making Melbourne Move I look at some of the transport issues facing Melbourne today, as well as possible solutions to get the city moving again. Melbourne has grown immensely in the past 10 years and that growth has put a lot of pressure on the city’s infrastructure.

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