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GoGet CarShare is a car sharing service operating in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.The service was the first of its kind in Australia. [1] [2] GoGet was launched as Newtown CarShare on 6 June 2003 with three vehicles and twelve founding members. [3]
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 ...
The City Loop (originally called the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop or MURL) is a piece of underground commuter rail infrastructure in the central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The loop includes three underground stations: Flagstaff, Melbourne Central (formerly Museum) and Parliament.
Melbourne Central railway station is a commuter railway station on the Burnley, Caulfield, Clifton Hill and Northern group lines, serving the Melbourne CBD in Victoria, Australia. Melbourne Central is an underground premium station on the City Loop , featuring four platforms, two island platforms on two floors connected to street level by a ...
Melbourne's urban area is approximately 2,704 km 2, the largest in Australia and the 33rd largest in the world. [119] The Hoddle Grid, a grid of streets measuring approximately 1 by 1 ⁄ 2 mi (1.61 by 0.80 km), forms the nucleus of Melbourne's central business district (CBD). The grid's southern edge fronts onto the Yarra River.
The Melbourne railway network comprises 17 railway lines organised into six groups and is operated by Metro Trains Melbourne. The first section of the network opened in 1854, making the Melbourne metropolitan rail network the oldest rail system in Australia. Most of the network is above ground, with the main underground section being the City ...
The phrase 'CBD' or Central Business District appears in the 1960s, probably within the publication of the 'Borrie Report' in 1964, and the subsequent Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme, enacted in 1968. [10] CBD is still the most common phrase to refer to the central grid area of Melbourne.
On the corner of Little Collins Street and King Street is the city's first and only school, Melbourne City School, housed in a three-story bluestone heritage building. At the western end is Bank Place , a significant old lane which provides pedestrian access to Collins Street between Queen and William streets.