This is not the only example of really strange advice for how to get to underground City Loop stations during the works closure.

In this example, the advice for people on the Bourke Street concourse at Southern Cross to get to Melbourne Central is to walk even further away from Melbourne Central by getting a tram from Collins Street, or instead walking to Melbourne Central along Bourke Street and no advice to simply catch a tram right there next to you on Bourke Street.

Another example at Flinders Street was telling people to catch the tram one block to Collins Street (barely 200 metres away) and changing to another tram to Parliament. For that it suggested walking the whole way is quicker, which is probably true if you've given the bad advice to catch a tram one stop and then interchange.