New platform stop in Flinders Street

The new platform tram stop in Flinders Street at Swanston Street is now open to passengers.

The new stop, with one centre platform serving both directions, has been designed to cater for a large number of passengers and make it easier and safer for them to get on and off trams.

The upgraded tram stop will make it easier for all users, including people with a disability, the elderly, parents with prams, and families to use Flinders Street trams (Routes 48, 70, 75 and the City Circle).

The special tram stop design has maintained the traffic capacity of the intersection, which is one of the busiest in Melbourne’s CBD.

Yarra Trams thanks businesses and residents in the area for their patience during construction. 

Platform tram stops protect passengers from traffic and provide ramp access, shelters, seating, lighting, tram service information and a screen that displays when the next tram is due.

The platform tram stop provides a modern interchange with Flinders Street Station and has also improved the area for pedestrians.

The pedestrian crossing between Flinders Street Station and the Young and Jackson Hotel has been widened by two metres to better cater for the large number of pedestrians at this busy intersection. 

A new pedestrian crossing has also been installed mid-way between Swanston Street and Elizabeth Street at the other end of the platform tram stop.

Yarra Trams Chief Executive Officer Dennis Cliche said:  “We now have 241 platform stops on the tram network with more than 120 built in the past year alone.” 

“This centre platform stop will make our special event services to the MCG and Melbourne Park even more efficient as well as providing a more comfortable waiting environment for our regular customers,” he said.

Passengers getting off at this stop are advised that the right hand doors of the tram will open on to the central platform. 

Passengers who may be standing in the step-wells on the right hand side of the tram are asked to please stand clear of the opening doors.

Release Issued: 24 April 2008