Victoria’s ombudsman says the state’s environmental watchdog failed to consider the human rights of communities affected by toxic soil dumping.
A man in his 40s is in hospital after ploughing his vehicle into the notoriously low Montague Street bridge at South Melbourne.
Treasurer Tim Pallas has flagged a future slowdown in infrastructure spending to avoid more cost blowouts as firms struggle to keep pace with massive road and rail projects.
Yet again,the government is committing to spending big bucks before establishing whether these are good projects and now is the right time to build them.
Billions of dollars to build the East West Link will be included in the federal budget later this month,more than seven years and two elections after Labor torpedoed plans for the controversial road.
For more than a hundred years,the Montague Street bridge has stood in the path of trucks,vans and buses. Despite being hit hundreds of times,there has been no action to increase the gap between asphalt and overpass.
Melburnians are avoiding public transport at even greater levels than last year as workers seek new ways to ensure they can commute by car.
Road safety experts say a driver’s offence history can help predict their likelihood of being in a dangerous accident,prompting calls for preventative action targeting these motorists.
West Melbourne residents thought a sound barrier would protect them from noise off the West Gate Tunnel,but now they’ve learned it was only in the plans because of a cut-and-paste mistake.
A roadwork and rail construction blitz will cause major delays on 10 rail lines,seven tram routes and four critical roads over the summer holidays
The project will include a tunnel almost two kilometres longer than initially planned and will cost $11.1 billion.