Melbourne City Loop Challenge

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I wonder if anyone's ever done that. Route planning must be a nightmare.
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Where to start?! :lol:
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Could someone post a link to a map in here so we can all see just HOW bad it is? :-)
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Ha Ha all of about 5 stations I think, even me and Pete might be able to that one without breaking sweat :lol:
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tubeguru wrote:Could someone post a link to a map in here so we can all see just HOW bad it is? :-)
Here goes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Loop,_Melbourne

As you can see, it's a toughie.
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tubeguru wrote:Could someone post a link to a map in here so we can all see just HOW bad it is? :-)
And here is another.... :)

http://www.connexmelbourne.com.au/trip_maps/index.asp
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which Pete were u talking about?
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petermiller36 wrote:which Pete were u talking about?
Ha ha NOT the super fit Ware FC player :D
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point 1: im not super fit... yet!
point 2: i dont play for Ware FC, just train with them... so far!
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<puts hand up>

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TheFatBuoy wrote:I wonder if anyone's ever done that. Route planning must be a nightmare.
Please accept my apologies for Thread-Digging, but this is actually one of the largest nightmares imaginable in Melbourne Public Transport. There are no services that complete the City Circle, from Flinders Street to Flinders Street, at any hour of any day, that are in the public timetable. Completing the City Loop would be a doddle, as every weekend service, and the overwhelming majority of weekday services, go through the loop.

In a separate thread, I shall write about my successful attempt at the "Metro Challenge" — the Melbourne Equivalent of the Tube Challenge. As a heads up, the Melbourne Electric Metro network is (at the time of writing) only 20 kilometres shorter than the London Underground, and yet my attempt took one hour less.

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I was recently in Melbourne.
Initially planned to tackle the Melbourne Metro, but when I realised that 5 out of 16 lines were subject to replacement buses for most of January I quickly forgot that idea.

The City Loop was also closed.

So I started planning to do "All The Trams".
Obviously this is the wrong time of year to actually attempt it, due to it being the height of summer and the trams not being air conditioned.
But on paper I have a route planned that at a different time of year would give a time of around 13 hours. At least it gives me an excuse to go back.
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I'm interested that you want to do Melbourne Trams. I was rather staggered to learn it was over 1,000 stops!

Presumably you will be doing a skip-stop ride of the system to complete it in 13 hours, as in that time frame I can't see you stopping at 1,000+ stops
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jrparkin wrote: 27 Jan 2023, 21:25 I'm interested that you want to do Melbourne Trams. I was rather staggered to learn it was over 1,000 stops!

Presumably you will be doing a skip-stop ride of the system to complete it in 13 hours, as in that time frame I can't see you stopping at 1,000+ stops
I'm certainly not intending to make the tram stop at every stop. If there's no other passenger and it passes through a stop (which in the suburbs will happen quite a lot off peak) then it still counts as having covered the route.
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