Traffic
Pedestrians account for the majority of traffic over the bridge, but other forms of traffic include motor vehicles, trams, buses and bicycles, as well as an occasional horse- drawn carriage. The destination of pedestrian traffic is two way - commuters going to work in the CBD as well as visitors to the Melbourne Arts Precinct on the Southbank side.
Princes Bridge was also the name of a railway station located on the northern side of the river, to the east of the bridge, on the current site of Federation Square. It was linked to Flinders Street Station by the railway tracks that run underneath the northern approach to the bridge.
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