11 sources
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City of Melbourne
Pedestrian Counting System
The figures on this site are our analysis of the published counts, not the council's. Each sensor's day is normalised to its own daily total, so the two curves compare the shape of a footpath's day rather than how busy it is, and both share one y-scale. The window starts after the Metro Tunnel's full timetable switch on 1 February and ends before April's free-fare month.
40 weekdays, 2 February – 27 March 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · no record page on file
Public Record Office Victoria
Provenance, Issue 10
2011 · no record page on file
Creative Victoria
State Library Victoria visitor figures
26 June 2023 · no record page on file
Chinese Museum
Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia, prepared by Sophie Couchman
Records the first Chinese lodging houses in Little Bourke Street and Celestial Avenue in late 1854, and describes the area as a cheap and convenient staging post for the goldfields. It does not say why Little Bourke Street in particular, and neither does this site.
2001 · no record page on file
eMelbourne, University of Melbourne
Chinese, by Morag Loh
Stores and lodgings in Little Bourke Street by 1855. The same entry records the Chinese presence contracting from about 1920 as immigrants went home, which is why the card says the street never moved rather than that it never shrank.
July 2008 · no record page on file
Premier of Victoria
Media release on the tram network
The network figures — 250km of double track, 24 routes, about 500 trams, 1,600 stops — are the government's and the operator's own. This site has not counted them.
28 June 2024 · no record page on file
Yarra Trams
Network facts
Cited alongside the Premier's release for the same figures. This site has never recorded which page or which edition, so the vintage is blank rather than guessed.
no vintage on file · no record page on file
UHPH_14 conference proceedings
Peter Spearritt on the survival of the Melbourne tram network
Risson's 21 years, a less aggressively pro-car lobby than Sydney's and Hoddle's street widths are one historian's explanation, and the card runs it as the explanation. The runner-up network lengths for St Petersburg and Berlin are not yet traced to a record page.
2014 · no record page on file
Transport Victoria
Half-price public transport fares
The daily cap is the one announced for that period. It is a policy with an end date, not a standing fare.
1 June 2026 to 1 January 2027 · no record page on file
Economist Intelligence Unit
Global Liveability Index 2026
The index contains no measure of affordability of any kind: no housing cost, no rent, no cost of living. Infrastructure includes only availability of good-quality housing. The scores published free are whole numbers; the decimals that separate cities level on the published score sit inside a paid report, so this site prints no decimal.
Fieldwork May 2026, published 7 July 2026, 173 cities · no record page on file
Time Out
Best Cities in the World 2026
A survey of residents rather than an analyst rating — more than 24,000 people in 42 languages. It measures a different thing from the EIU index — how residents rate their own city, not how analysts rate it — which is why this site prints both and ranks neither above the other.
Published 11 March 2026 · no record page on file