Melbourne's train gives everyone a gift bag before Christmas every year. Sorry, it's a gift bag for them. Yes, the train ticket has gone up again.
But today we have to talk about how a train can save money, of course, is not a ticket escape.
Melbourne trains have been a special policy since 2008, and trains up to 07:15 are free. You can save A $4.10 (2-hour ticket) by signing in (tap on and off), before 07:15.
Another condition for this offer is to make sure you have a balance in your Myki card.
Of course, a lot of people may think that few people will use this, who goes to work so early ah? If you need to get off at 07:15, assuming you need to take a train for half an hour to get to work, you have to get on at 6:45, and if you get on at 6:45, it's time to get up at 6: 00.
So what about the actual situation?
There are many early birds!
Last year, more than 5.7 million people used the discount.
This has been used by 76490 people since 2008.
Victoria goverment introduced the policy in an attempt to ease the rush hour between 07:30 and 09:30.
The data on the number of person visits to this service over the years are as follows:
- 2008 — 76,490
- 2009 — 400,121
- 2010 — 2,250,753
- 2011 — 2,381,358
- 2012 — 2,524,962
- 2013 — 4,195,387
- 2014 — 5,022,386
- 2015 — 4,803,613
- 2016 — 5,693,018
- 2017 — 5,165,896
So, what do you think of this data? There are still a lot of people who feel very hard.