WEEKLY and monthly Metcard tickets will no longer be sold from railway stations from March, as the Baillieu government attempts to push more public transport users on to the myki ticket system.

Hundreds of decade-old Metcard ticket machines will also be ripped out of CBD railway stations and taken off the Williamstown line from next month; other railway lines will follow.

Metcard ticket machines will be ripped out of CBD railway stations from next month. Credit:Craig Sillitoe

With only 30 per cent of public transport travellers now using a myki card, the government wants to push more off Metcard before the anticipated switch-off at the end of this year.

While the government will make it more difficult to buy Metcards - to encourage Victorians in the wind-down period to use up an estimated 11 million unused trips - it is simultaneously beefing up myki.