Melbourne tram route 16

Melbourne University - Kew

Route Information
Route Number	16
Number of stops	80
Timetables	Link
Route Map	Link
Zone Location
Zone 1
Entire route

Tram route 16 is a public transport service in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs from the University of Melbourne in the city centre to Kew in the eastern suburbs. It runs through the suburbs of Melbourne, St Kilda, Balaclava, Malvern, and Kew. Like most tram routes in Melbourne, it is entirely within Metcard ticketing Zone 1.

The route is operated by a mix of Z1, Z3, D1 and D2 class trams.

In response to the State Government's 2001 Melbourne 2030 planning policy, the Public Transport Users Association lobbied to extend route 16 to to Kew Junction.^[1]

Route

There are 80 stops on route 16.

Starts at University of Melbourne terminus (stop 1), Swanston and Faraday Streets; then runs via:

• Swanston Street (stops 1 - 13)
  • RMIT University (stop 7)
  • La Trobe Street, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Central shopping centre and railway station, tram routes 24, 30, 34 and the City Circle (stop 8)
  • Lonsdale Street, QV Village (stop 9)
  • Bourke Street, tram routes 86, 95 and 96 (stop 10)
  • Collins Street, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne City Square, tram routes 11, 12, 42, 48, 109 and 112 (stop 11)
  • Flinders Street, Flinders Street Station, Federation Square, St Paul's Cathedral, tram routes 70 and 75 and the City Circle (stop 13)
• St Kilda Road (stops 14 - 30)
  • Victorian Arts Centre (stop 14)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Queen Victoria Gardens (stop 15)
  • Southbank Boulevard, tram route 1 (stop 16)
  • Shrine of Remembrance (stop 19)
  • Domain Interchange, tram routes 8 and 55 (stop 20)
  • Toorak Road (stop 22)
  • Commercial Road, tram route 72 (stop 25)
  • High Street, Victorian College for the Deaf, tram route 6 (stop 27)
  • St Kilda Junction, Junction Oval, tram routes 5 and 64 (stop 30)
• Fitzroy Street/The Esplanade
  • Esplanade Hotel (stop 135)
  • Acland Street, St Kilda Beach, Luna Park (stop 31)
• Carlisle Street (stop 36 - 37)
  • St Kilda Town Hall (stop 35)
  • Chapel Street, tram routes 78 and 79 (stop 37)
• Balaclava Road (stop 38 - 50)
  • Balaclava station (stop 38)
• Hawthorn Road (stop 50 - 52)
  • Balaclava Junction, tram routes 3 and 64 (stop 50)
• Glenferrie Road (stop 53 - 80)
  • Malvern station (stop 53)
  • Wattletree Road, tram route 5 (stop 54)
  • Malvern tram depot (stop 56)
  • High Street, Malvern Town Hall, tram route 6 (stop 57)
  • Malvern Road, tram route 72 (stop 59)
  • Toorak Road, tram route 8 (stop 62)
  • Kooyong station (stop 65)
  • Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club (stop 66)
  • Riversdale Road, tram routes 70 and 75 (stop 70)
  • Glenferrie station (stop 74)
  • Cotham Road, tram route 109 (stop 80)

Terminates at the intersection of Glenferrie Road and Cotham Road, Kew (stop 80).

This route is the amalgamation of the old route 69 from Kew to St Kilda Beach and the 16 from Melbourne University to St Kilda Beach. As both of those old routes used to through-route during the peak hours, it was decided that the routes be merged with the number 16 be kept.

Maps and timetables

• Official timetables
• Official route map
• Official tram network map
• Melbourne tram and train network map from railmaps.com.au

References

1. ^ "The Real Transport Challenges: A Call for a Vision" (PDF), Public Transport Users Association: p. 56, http://www.ptua.org.au/files/2006/The_Real_Transport_Challenges.pdf, retrieved 2011-11-03 

See also

• Trams in Melbourne
• Transportation in Australia