Melburnians To Continue Not Paying For The Tram

PETE CLARK | Melbourne | CONTACT

The Victorian Government has recently announced that public transport across the State will be free until April 30. 

This comes as the price of fuel skyrockets during an unaffordability crisis which has left people asking the government to do something, anything to ease financial pressures. 

However, the government's free PT announcement hasn’t exactly been met with the adulation that they had expected. 

Unfortunately the Victorian Labor Party, who are already perceived as being out of touch, failed to grasp that anyone who regularly catches trams in Melbourne would never actually pay for their journey. 

Fair evading is a popular pastime in Melbourne that everyone gets around, like stealing from Woolies. 

The Advocate spoke with average Melburnian and regular tram commuter Finn Jones about the news. 

“Can’t remember the last time I paid for the tram, lost my Myki card a few years ago and never looked back”

“The lazy ticket dogs (Myki Inspectors) are too slow anyways, I just make up some shit about losing my wallet at Flagstaff and then just walk away”

“Even if you get really unlucky and get one or two fines in a year it’s still cheaper than tapping on, and I’ve done the maths on that,” he said. 

With the Victorian election slowly approaching in November, the Labor party is pretty keen to get voters on side with free shit. 

But as all Melburnians know, trams have always been free.

More to come.