The Redcliffe Markets Festival of Frights runs on Redcliffe Parade from 4pm to 9pm on Saturday 31 October 2026, with free entry and no plan to cancel in bad weather. If you take a bus there, three stops on the Parade close from 10am that morning, so you will be using a different stop.
The newest Park and Ride in Greater Hobart is at Claremont, which opened on Monday 20 July 2026 with 239 car spaces, and the older sites at Moonah, Kingston Denison Street and Huntingfield are listed by Metro Tasmania as free to park at. Midway Point and Firthside have also been delivered, according to the Tasmanian Government, and a site at Rokeby is planned.
On Wednesday 28 October the Bendigo Jockey Club runs complimentary shuttle buses between Bendigo Railway Station and the racecourse for the Ladbrokes Bendigo Cup: to the track from 10:30am to 1:00pm, and back from 4:30pm to 5:15pm. General admission is $30 for adults, parking on the course is free, and the Victorian Government lists 28 October as a full-day local holiday for all areas of Greater Bendigo west of the Campaspe River.
Noosa Parade is closed from 4:00am to 3:00pm on Sunday 1 November 2026 for the Garmin Noosa Triathlon, and the roads around Noosa Heads, Noosaville and Tewantin close in stages from about 4:30am. The official road closure schedule runs from Thursday 29 October to Monday 2 November, and the car park schedule starts earlier, with the Noosa Woods car park closed from 10pm on Sunday 18 October.
Transport Victoria is running extra trains to Flemington Racecourse Station for all four days of the 2026 Melbourne Cup Carnival, with trams on route 57 and buses on routes 472 and 404 as other ways in. It has not yet published train or tram times, which will show in Journey Planner within 14 days of each race day.
The Gong Shuttle is a free bus that runs a loop around the Wollongong CBD, routes 55A and 55C, every 10 minutes on weekdays until 6pm, then every 20 minutes until 10pm, as of October 2026. It links Wollongong Station, Wollongong Hospital, Burelli Street, the Innovation Campus and the University of Wollongong.
You can pay for Transperth buses, trains and ferries by tapping a Visa or Mastercard, or a phone or watch with a Visa or Mastercard in its wallet. Contactless fares are charged at the standard cash rate, and the daily charge is capped at the standard DayRider fare as long as you use the same card or device all day.
If you are taking the train to the Illawarra Hawks v Brisbane Bullets game at WIN Entertainment Centre on Saturday 24 October 2026, check your trip first: Transport for NSW lists planned trackwork that day, and South Coast Line trains run to a changed timetable between South Coast Line stations and Sydenham only. Doors open at 4:30pm and tip-off is at 5:30pm.
Roads around the Australian War Memorial will be closed for the Remembrance Day service on Wednesday 11 November 2026 from approximately 8:00am to 1:00pm, and Transport Canberra will divert Route 54 in both directions over the same hours. The National Ceremony starts at 10:45am on the Parade Ground, and tickets are not required.
Since Monday 7 September 2026, the route 700 bus no longer goes north to Broadbeach South and the route 777 airport bus ends at Stockland Burleigh Heads, so for the rest of the trip you change to the G:link tram at Burleigh Heads. Translink also started a new route 701 and renamed the late night 700 as route 70.