But public transport will be free every weekend from November 30 for every Victorian in the state, until February 1 when the new stations will be fully integrated with the existing network.
The state’s Tourism, Sport and Major Events Minister, Steve Dimopoulos, said Melbourne was the country’s cultural capital and the concert was one of several free events over summer.
The Metro Tunnel project consists of a nine-kilometre rail tunnel between Kensington and South Yarra, with five new underground stations at Anzac (opposite the Shrine of Remembrance), Town Hall, State Library, Parkville and Arden (in North Melbourne).
The Metro Tunnel links the Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham lines, which will come out of the City Loop and form a new cross-city rail connection.
The full timetable has yet to be released, but the state government previously said trains would run at least every 10 minutes from 6am to 10pm between Watergardens and Dandenong.
Victoria has poured $13.48 billion into the project, which had an original budget of $10.9 billion.
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