Amid calls for 50 cent fares and ticketless public transport, critics say the free tram zone’s huge popularity has consequences
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When the Victorian government proposed making Melbourne’s CBD a free tram zone in 2014, the longtime public transport campaigner Daniel Bowen turned to Alanis Morissette to express his thoughts.
“It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid,” he wrote on his blog at the time.
