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Short term tickets

If you do not travel often or you forget your myki, you can buy a short term ticket (full fare and concession only). These are available in single 2 hour or daily fares and are based on Metcard and V/Line fares. As long as you touch on and touch off, travelling with myki is always cheaper than buying short term tickets.

 

 

Short Term Ticket

 

You will be able to get the following short term tickets:

2 Hour
Allows unlimited train, tram and bus travel for at least two hours within the selected zone(s). The ticket expires two hours from the start of the next full hour after it was activated. For example, a ticket activated at 8.55 am will expire at 11.00 am and a ticket activated at 9.05 am will expire at 12.00 noon.

 

Tickets first activated after 6.00 pm are valid until the end of the day (3.00 am).


Daily
Allows unlimited train, tram and bus travel until the end of the day it was activated on (3.00 am), within the selected zone(s).


Off-peak
For customers travelling in three or more zones, Off-peak 2 hour and Off-peak Daily short term tickets are available. The conditions are identical to 2 hour and Daily short term tickets described above. These tickets are not valid for travel on business days on services arriving into Zone 1 before 9.00 am or departing Zone 1 between 4.00 pm and 6.00 pm.

 

 

Melbourne Travel (Peak) 2 hour Daily
  Full fare Concession Full fare Concession
Zone 1 $3.70 $2.30 $6.80 $3.70
Zone 2 $2.80 $1.70 $4.80 $2.70
Zone 1+2 $5.80 $3.30 $10.60 $5.60

Short term tickets will be available:

 

  • from myki machines at stations, selected tram platform stops and bus interchanges
  • on board trams and buses
  • from the MetShop (Melbourne Town Hall, near the corner of Swanston and Little Collins streets) and at Premium Stations
  • on selected V/Line trains and coaches and from selected V/Line ticket agents

 

For up-to-date information about where you can buy a short term ticket, call 13 6954 (13 myki).


Please touch on and touch off at a myki reader when you use a short term ticket — the same way you would with a myki.

 

Short term tickets bought on board a bus or tram or a V/Line train or coach are automatically activated on purchase. Other short term tickets need to be activated by touching on the first time they are used.

 

Note: You can only buy tickets on board V/Line trains if there is no opportunity to buy a ticket before travel. Cash sales only.  

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