Tap and go has rolled onto every Melbourne tram, so paying now takes a bank card, phone or smartwatch.
From 21 June, you can step off a train and straight onto a tram using the same card or device, with no separate myki to dig out.
Tap and go now covers both modes after first appearing at every myki-enabled train station across Victoria, which means a single tap can carry you through a full trip and any changeovers in between.
Tap and go rollout
- Trams: tap and go live on every Melbourne tram from 21 June
- Trains: already available at every myki-enabled train station across Victoria
- Payment: pay with a bank card, smartphone or smartwatch
- Buses: myki-enabled bus routes are next in line
- Fares: half-price until the end of the year
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Plenty of commuters have already taken to it. More than 700,000 tap and go trips have been clocked since the start of June, and four in five of those were paid with a phone or smartwatch rather than a physical card. In other words, a lot of Melburnians are leaving the wallet at home and tapping straight through.
The Victorian government has named buses as the next stop for the technology, with the rollout set to reach myki-enabled bus routes. In the meantime, half-price fares are running until the end of the year, which the government says is saving regular commuters hundreds of dollars over that stretch.
A few groups should keep things as they are. Concession passengers, seniors and anyone under 18 should continue using their concession or Youth myki, while travellers heading somewhere myki has not yet reached can stick with a paper ticket or eTicket. Anyone who simply prefers tapping on with a myki can carry on doing exactly that.
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