People watched on in silence as volunteers began removing wilting flowers from the temporary Bourke Street memorial - a pile of teddies peering out of the back of a truck.
The tributes were left amid an outpouring of grief in the city a man allegedly deliberately mowed down people with his car in Melbourne's CBD on January 20.
Six people have died, the most recent on Monday night, since the car mounted footpaths and sped through the mall. Dozens were injured.
On Tuesday an Aboriginal smoking ceremony cleansed the air as the dozens of SES and Red Cross volunteers delicately collected up the now wilting flowers, notes and teddies from the memorial.
They formed a long queue to send each item one-by-one onto waiting trucks as hundreds watched on - many with tears in their eyes.
News that the memorial was to be moved was announced on Monday, hours before police delivered the devastating news that a 33-year-old woman from Blackburn South had died in hospital.
Seven people were still in hospital, one remains critical.
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