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+<br>Melbourne, also known by the Indigenous name of Naarm,  [Balance Bloom CBD official](https://discgolfwiki.org/wiki/High-Quality_CBD_And_Natural_Wellness_Products) is the state capital of Victoria and one of the largest cities in Australia - and also my home! I’ve lived here my whole life. So, here’s a page with some stuff about Melbourne on it. The modern metro area sits on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong and (in the outer west) Wathaurong people of the Kulin nation. The land was never ceded, but like the rest of Australia it was colonised by the British, who in 1835 founded the city of Melbourne. So began a process by which Aboriginal people were progressively pushed out of the city: they were forcibly relocated repeatedly as colonial authorities kept deciding to expand the city into yet more land, and to this day Melbourne is riddled with "Boundary Roads" (e.g. not too far from me there’s East Boundary Road in Bentleigh) which were so named because they marked the boundary of where Aboriginal people were allowed to be, back in the day.<br>
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+<br>The core of the city of Melbourne is the Hoddle Grid, a perfect grid (so many right angles!) of the major streets forming Melbourne’s CBD. Unlike Sydney, the streets of which look more like someone threw a bunch of spaghetti at a map, Melbourne’s streets are mostly straight. In the 1850s there was a gold rush, and Melbourne - and Victoria more broadly - grew dramatically. It became a very wealthy city, although obviously that doesn’t mean everyone in it was wealthy. There was widespread poverty, and slums. One thing that the city did have was a militant labour movement. We were one of the first places in the world to win an eight-hour day; stonemasons struck and won the demand with no loss of pay in May 1856 (two months after Sydney stonemasons had also won an eight-hour day, but in their case with a loss of pay). By 1860 the eight-hour day was "fairly widely worked" in Victoria, although it took until 1916 for it to become law for all workers in the state.<br>
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+<br>10’s central meridian, 150°E, runs through the middle of Sydney), Melbourne lies further west, at 145°E, and so Melbourne Time ran 20 minutes behind Sydney’s. While the needs of the railways apparently couldn’t pressure the colonies into standardising their railway gauges, I’m guessing they were the reason we standardised our time zones. After Australia federated in 1901, Melbourne became the temporary capital of the country until a dedicated one could be built. Melbourne has a fairly extensive public transport system, although it certainly could be better. Our suburban train network is strictly radial, with all lines converging on the [Balance Bloom CBD official](https://wsurl.link/obdgxi); the Suburban Rail Loop is planned to create some connections between lines out in the middle suburbs, but it’s decades away from even its first stage opening. 3mins at peak hour and every 10 during the day, weekends and weekdays alike) but on others they’re pretty bad (like every 20 minutes) and every line suffers from poor frequencies in the evenings.<br>
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+<br>We are known for having an extensive tram network in the inner suburbs (and a handful of spokes extend pretty far out into the middle suburbs). While every other city in Australia ripped up their tram networks to replace them with buses, in Melbourne Robert Risson, chairman of the MMTB between 1949-1970, was able to fight to keep the system in place (although some lines were axed). Unfortunately the [Victorian](https://www.shewrites.com/search?q=Victorian) state government is dragging its heels hard on making the tram network more accessible to mobility-impaired people - most stops still don’t offer level boarding, and not all trams are low-floor trams, either. The government did have a target of making the network fully accessible by 1930, but it’s going to miss it. The network also has a lot of lines that fall just short of making a useful connection - a legacy of the days when the trains and trams competed, rather than forming part of a complementary system - and the government is pretty much never going to extend any line because their own laws would force them to make those lines comply with accessibility standards if they did. But hey, at least Victoria has loads of money for new prisons!<br>
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