Commuters through the CBD can expect delaysafter a truck brought down tram lines in the early hours of Tuesday morning, closing some of the city's busiest streets and major tram lines.
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A large truck carrying an excavator brought down tram lines before coming to a stop near Crown Casino at about 3.50am.
A police spokeswoman said the truck brought down a number of tramlines on Queensbridge Street before bringing more down as it attempted a u-turn at the intersection of Flinders, Queensbridge and Market streets.
Flinders Street and Queensbridge Street were closed to traffic as crews worked to restore the lines and several tram lines were closed.
But Vic Roads spokesman Chris Miller said that by 6.45am traffic was flowing on all but one road in the CBD.
"Flinders Street is now operating normally but Queensbridge Street is closed to inbound traffic and has one lane open outbound between Powers and Flinders streets," he said.
"So we're asking motorist who would normally use that route to use King St, Spencer St or Saint Kilda Road instead."
Mr Miller said the most motorists would now only face the normal morning grind.
"Queensbridge isn't the busiest street in city so it will effect the few people who use it, but we're not expecting it's going to have a knock-on effect around town," he said.
"Because it happened so early in the morning a lot of the traffic hasn't hit the city yet.
"So we're not expecting delays, or at least nothing beyond the normal morning traffic."
As of 7am, the route 58 tram was still affected by the incident.
9am Update - Third party incident at Market St:
- We expect this disruption to continue until 3-4pm approximately.
- Repairs continue to overhead wires and infrastructure under the rail overpass at Flinders St and along Queensbridge St. (1/5)??? Yarra Trams (@yarratrams)
