{"id":323632,"date":"2025-11-27T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323632"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:43:14","slug":"victorian-government-scrambles-to-fix-blunder-that-would-create-first-pedestrian-tollway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323632","title":{"rendered":"Victorian government scrambles to fix blunder that would create first ‘pedestrian tollway’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Victorian government has scrambled to fix an oversight that would make Melbourne<\/a> home to the country’s first pedestrian tollway when the Metro Tunnel<\/a> opens this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more-than-$13 billion project, which included the construction of 9km twin tunnels under Melbourne’s CBD and five new underground stations, is set to open this Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But an underpass connecting two CBD stations was thrown into the spotlight yesterday<\/a> when it was revealed pedestrians using the walkway to access shops at Melbourne Central would need to pay more than $5.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Situated just metres apart, the State Library and Melbourne Central stations share an underground concourse on La Trobe Street. (Nine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Situated just metres apart, the State Library<\/a> and Melbourne Central<\/a> stations share an underground concourse on La Trobe Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But pedestrians who want to avoid foot traffic or bad weather by using the underpass were told they would be charged a full fare when they tap on at the State Library and exit less than 50 metres away at Melbourne Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a ticketed train station area… I don’t think it’s that confusing,” Public Transport Minister Gabrielle Williams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With NINE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more-than-$13 billion project, which included the construction of 9km twin tunnels under Melbourne’s CBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":243052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,10073,47],"tags":[993,10028,17037,8],"class_list":["post-323632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-myki","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-central","tag-state-library-railway-station","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323642,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323632\/revisions\/323642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/243052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}