Spring Street is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs roughly north-south, and is the easternmost street in the Hoddle Grid. The street travels from Flinders Street in the south, to La Trobe Street and the Carlton Gardens in the north. Nicholson Street branches northwards from Spring Street just to the south of Lonsdale Street. The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 52,118 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area). ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ... Flinders Street is an important street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... La Trobe Street (also LaTrobe) is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Carlton Gardens south The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage Site located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Nicholson Street is a street in inner Melbourne. ...

Notable landmarks on Spring Street include the Victorian Parliament House, (the street's name being used as a metonym by the media to refer to the Government of Victoria for this reason), the Old Treasury Building and the Princess Theatre. Spring Street forms the western border of the Treasury Gardens. Parliament House, Melbourne Parliament House, Melbourne, has been the seat of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, since 1855, except for the years 1901 to 1928, when it was occupied by the Parliament of Australia. ... In rhetoric and cognitive linguistics, metonymy (in Greek meta = after/later and onoma = name) is the use of a single characteristic to identify a more complex entity. ... The form of the Government of Victoria is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1855, although it has been amended many times since then. ... The Treasury Gardens consist of 58,000 square metres on the south-eastern side of the Melbourne Central Business District, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

A number of tram routes run along Spring Street, including the City Circle. Parliament railway station, part of the underground City Loop, lies directly beneath and parallel to Spring Street. This is a list of the 37 main tram routes and 55 subsidiary routes operating in the city of Melbourne, Australia. ... The City Circle is a tram loop running around the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... Entrance to Parliament station Parliament is an underground railway station in the suburban train network of Melbourne, Australia. ... Problems and solutions Prior to the construction of the Loop, Flinders Street and Spencer Street stations were connected only by a viaduct beside the Yarra River. ...