Metro Melb’s Late Night Public Transport Won’t Run On Fridays & Saturdays As Part Of Curfew

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Minister for Public Transport Ben Carroll has announced via a tweet that Melbourne’s late night public transport is getting axed for the next two weeks as part of a lockdown crackdown.

In an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19 and enforce the strict 9pm curfew the city is under, public transport services between 1am and 5am on Saturday and between 1am and 6am on Sunday are just… not going to run for the next two weeks.

Carroll said that if people can stay home, they should, and reminded everyone that in metro Melbourne, there are currently only five reasons you can leave your home: for essential food and supplies, authorised work, care and caregiving, exercise, and getting the jab.

Public transport will run as normal at all other times “to ensure essential workers and those who must travel for a permitted reason can get where they need to go” but, this doesn’t seem to take into into account essential workers who start or finish work between the hours when public transport will be axed????

The announcement has incited panic online as people ask the obvious question: how the fuck are essential workers meant to travel to and from work without public transport? Not everyone has a car or can afford an Uber.

And, of course, the press release said absolutely nothing about late night essential workers because clearly expecting competency here is asking too much.

We’ve reached out to ask how essential shift workers without a car are expected to get home from work during their late shifts, because the Vic government sure as shit didn’t think about them first.

So far we haven’t received a response, but we’ll let you know the moment we do.

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