V/Line trains will switch to myki within months MYKI will be rolled out on to V/Line trains in the coming months, Public Transport Victoria has revealed. The Seymour line will be the first to be converted to the $1.5 billion ticketing system on June 24. Trains to Traralgon, Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong will follow. PTV Director of Customer Services Alan Fedda said myki was replacing most single-use and all periodical V/Line tickets. "Passengers currently purchasing single, daily and off-peak tickets should switch to myki money, while those using weekly, monthly or date-to-date tickets should switch to myki pass," Mr Fedda said in a statement. From the first day of myki on each V/Line commuter corridor, passengers have the choice of switching to myki or can continue to use V/Line paper tickets until they are phased out over the coming months. Weekly, monthly and date-to-date will be axed from September 22, while all other single use tickets will remain available for some time. But passengers on V/Line long distance trains to Warrnambool, Swan Hill and Mildura and on V/Line buses are not part of the switch to myki and will continue to use paper tickets PTV has created 10 new country transport zones ahead of the switch to myki. V/Line commuters who currently buy a single trip have one hour of free travel on the metropolitan public transport network on their arrival in Melbourne. PTV confirmed country commuters would continue to get a period of free travel. Some commuters will have an even longer period of free travel than they do currently to allow for longer journey times. The switch means commuter services will have time and zone-based fares rather than point-to-point fares. V/Line CEO Theo Taifalos said myki would bring the country operator's customers the same benefits enjoyed by their city counterparts for years. "Our customers can now use one card to travel seamlessly across much of Victoria, from taking a journey on a regional town bus to connect with a V/Line train to Melbourne, and then onward to suburban areas using a train, tram or bus," Mr Taifalos said. He admitted the new fare system "may take a little getting used to" but was confident passengers would see the benefits. The overtime, overbudget myki replaced Metcard as Melbourne's only public transport ticketing system on December 29, 2012.