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Geelong is serviced by local bus routes covering the city centre and most surrounding suburbs. Taxi and hire car services are also available. Pakington Street in [[Geelong West, Victoria|Geelong West]] was served by an [[tram|electric tramway]] service until 1956, when the service was replaced by buses subcontracted out to Bender Buslines (currently owned by [[Kefford Corporation]]). Current buslines are operated under the government transport initiative, the Geelong Transit System, currently contracted to Bender Buslines and McHarry Buslines.

Hourly [[V/Line]] train services to Melbourne depart the [[Geelong railway station, Victoria|Geelong railway station]] and also run to to [[Warrnambool, Victoria|Warrnambool]] twice daily. Train travel time from Geelong to Melbourne [[Southern Cross Station]] (formerly Spencer StStreet Station) is approx 60 minutes making it a popular alternative to driving for Geelong residents working in the Melbourne area. Train services between Melbourne and Geelong received a government funded upgrade during 2005 called the [[Regional Fast Rail project]], with new high speed locomotives called V'locity 160 manufactured by Bombardier in [[Dandenong, Victoria|Dandenong]] scheduled to service the Geelong to Melbourne line beginning in 2006.

A [[Geelong Bypass|ring road]] is in planning stages to bypass the greater Geelong metropolitan area. The bypass will begin leave the Princes Highway near [[Lara, Victoria|Lara]] and rejoin the highway near Waurn Ponds and is due to begin construction in 2006. The [[Bellarine Peninsula]] links to the [[Mornington Peninsula]] via the [[Searoad ferry]] which runs hourly. [[Avalon Airport]] is appeoximately 15 kilometres to the north-east. Geelong also has many kilometres of [[bike trail]]s covering most of the city and the Bellarine Peninsula.