Meet halfway in Melbourne
For a group meeting in Melbourne, the fairest points are usually Flinders Street, Melbourne Central or Richmond - the City Loop ties every train line together in the centre, and Richmond gathers the eastern lines before they reach it. Which is fairest depends on where everyone starts: togather compares real door-to-door times for each person and returns the spots that keep the trip even.
- Metro trains
- Trams
- Buses
- Cycling
- Walking
Where groups actually meet in Melbourne
Interchanges that work as a fair midpoint for most groups. togather will not always land on one of these - it answers for your actual starting points - but they are the ones that come up again and again.
Flinders Street
Every metro train line
The station every line passes through, on the corner of the city by the river, so it is reachable from the whole network without a change and is the default fair point when the group is spread across several train lines.
Southern Cross
Metro trains, regional trains and buses
The western edge of the centre where the metro meets the regional V/Line trains and coaches, so it is the fair answer whenever someone is coming from outside the city or the group is weighted to the west.
Melbourne Central
City Loop train lines
A City Loop station right under the retail core, which makes it even for a group spread around the north side of the centre and puts them straight into somewhere to go on arrival.
Parliament
City Loop train lines
The eastern City Loop station, closest to the Fitzroy and East Melbourne side, so it saves a group weighted to the inner east the extra loop around to Flinders Street and back.
Richmond
Eastern and Sandringham train lines
The junction where the eastern suburban lines converge before the city, so it is the fair meeting point for a group living out along the Glen Waverley, Lilydale or Sandringham corridors rather than downtown.
North Melbourne
Northern and western train lines
Where the northern and western lines gather just outside the centre, which makes it fairer than a City Loop stop for a group weighted towards the northern and western suburbs.
South Yarra
Sandringham and Pakenham line trains
A busy interchange south of the river on the way in from the southeast, so it keeps a south-weighted group out of the centre while still being easy for everyone else to reach.
How to pick a fair meeting point in Melbourne
Melbourne’s trains all funnel through the City Loop, which makes people assume any central station is fair. For a group spread across several lines it usually is, and Flinders Street - the one station every line passes through - answers a lot of questions on its own. But the moment a group all lives out one side of the city, distance on a map stops being the right guide: someone in Frankston and someone in Werribee are on opposite edges of the network and well over an hour apart.
So the useful question is where a group’s lines actually gather. The eastern suburban lines come together at Richmond, and the northern and western lines at North Melbourne, before either reaches the centre.
Let the group’s centre of gravity decide
The centre is not automatically neutral. A group living out east saves real time meeting at Richmond rather than riding into the Loop and back, and a north-weighted or west-weighted group at North Melbourne or Southern Cross. The trams matter too: the network is dense but slow, so a tram stop that looks closer on the map can be the longer journey once the wait and the crawl through traffic are counted.
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Meeting halfway in Melbourne - questions
- Where is a fair place to meet halfway in Melbourne?
- Often Flinders Street, because every train line runs through it, but a junction like Richmond or North Melbourne can be fairer when the group all lives out one side of the city. It depends on where everyone starts, and togather works it out from real travel times.
- Doesn't the City Loop make every central station equally fair?
- Not quite. The Loop ties the lines together in the centre, but a group living out along one corridor still saves time meeting at the junction where their lines gather - Richmond in the east, North Melbourne in the north and west - rather than riding all the way into the Loop and back out.
- Can it handle a group split between trains and trams?
- Yes. Travel mode is set per person, so the people on the trains are timed on the trains while someone on a tram is timed on the tram, waiting and walking included. Melbourne's tram network is dense but slow, and timing it properly often changes which stop is actually fairer.
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