Stand at the corner of Melbourne’s two transit malls – Bourke and Swanston Streets – and you can watch the cycle of the morning rush: trams-bikes-peds, trams-bike-peds, regulated with the cycle of the traffic signals:
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They seem to get along – though there are complaints about the conflict created by the separated cycle lanes between the sidewalks and the tram landings. But an improvement nonetheless over the days when the street was clogged with cars. The businesses also seem to be surviving without curb parking.
When I was in Melbourne’s CBD in March, I had honestly never come across so many pedestrians at all hours of the night since I was in Manhattan. This baffled me because there is a third of the people living in the CBD as Vancouver, however the CBD is well programmed for activities all hours of the day/night so it makes sense the critical mass of peds.