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Victoria Street is serviced extensively by public transport, with St Vincent's Plaza acting as an interchange stop for most tram and bus routes that run along the street. [14] Several tram routes run along portions of Victoria Street and Victoria Parade's length, including the 11, 12, 30, 57 and 109. [15]
Map of Melbourne and Geelong urban areas. Melbourne is in the southeastern part of mainland Australia, within the state of Victoria. [96] Geologically, it is built on the confluence of Quaternary lava flows to the west, Silurian mudstones to the east, and Holocene sand accumulation to the southeast along Port Phillip.
The Capital City Trail is a shared use path in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which circles the city centre and some inner eastern and northern suburbs. [1] [2] [3] It is 29 km in length, and mostly consists of sections of other trails, such as the Merri Creek Trail, Main Yarra Trail, Moonee Ponds Creek Trail and Inner Circle Rail Trail.
This is a list of Municipalities and their suburbs (neighbourhoods), townships, and rural localities in the greater metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Suburbs are defined here as localities within the legislated Urban Growth Boundary, [ 1 ] all of which have some urban development.
The first section of the Trail was opened in 1985 by the Prime Minister of Australia and the local member of Parliament, Bob Hawke. [4]In April 2010, connections to the Capital City Trail were improved with the addition of a new bridge across Merri Creek, 160m south of the junction of Union Street and Merri Parade.
At the start of the 20th century large multi-level emporiums (department stores) began to spring up in the Prahran section of the street. At this point, Chapel Street rivalled the CBD as Melbourne's shopping destination. Emporium development continued right through to the 1930s. In the 1970s, Pran Central opened as a major shopping mall. In the ...
The Melbourne central business district (colloquially known as "the City" or "the CBD", [4] and gazetted simply as Melbourne [5]) is the city centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As of the 2021 census , the CBD had a population of 54,941, and is located primarily within the local government area City of Melbourne , with some parts located ...
Flemington Road is a major thoroughfare in the inner suburbs of North Melbourne and Parkville in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It runs for 2 km in a northwest–southeast direction, from the southern end of Mount Alexander Road, Flemington, to Haymarket roundabout and the northern end of Elizabeth Street, and provides a main connection between the northern arm of the CityLink tollway and ...