In the 2008-2009 financial year, the Melbourne rail network recorded 213.9 million passenger trips, the highest in its history.

In the 2010-2011 year 182.7 million passenger trips were made by tram.

More than 22,000 passenger trips are counted each weekday.

It will be the first of a lot of passenger trips.

In 2010, the subsidy per passenger trip dropped to A$18.68, down from A$19.42 in 2009.

Last year there were more than 1.5 million passenger trips, an increase of 400,000 over 1990.

From 1984 to 1992, Paratransit made 794,326 passenger trips.

In its first year of operation, close to 200,000 passenger trips were made on NightLink services.

In 2008, over 200 million passenger trips were made.

"The buses are subsidized by the city by about $7 per passenger trip," he said.