It’s not as attractive as a new train but overhauling the city’s unloved bus network could save 100 million car trips every year and make your commute faster.
Road traffic growth and inflation-linked toll rises helped tollway giant Transurban earn nearly $1 billion from Melbourne’s drivers.
Pete Shmigel is beyond frustrated. The former head of the Australian Council of Recycling has been campaigning for the rollout of recycled roads for more than half a decade now.
Across Melbourne,there are similar stories of lament at the poor state of some of the city’s busiest underpasses.
The Institute of Transportation Engineers says VicRoads is blocking access to police reports and sketches that would help determine what is causing crashes on Victorian roads.
An elderly man and his dog were out on their nightly walk around the block in Endeavour Hills when they were struck by a car on Tuesday night.
The former premiership player apologised to a cyclist he knocked over,after a court heard the man still suffers flashbacks of the incident.
The first half of 2023 was the deadliest on Victorian roads in more than a decade. But experts say data on road injuries is not being adequately collected.
Nine-year-old Aluel Ajak,who had non-verbal autism,didn’t understand road dangers when she was hit by a car in Melbourne’s outer west on Wednesday night.
A bus has left a trail of destruction after it was struck by a truck and crashed through two homes in Safety Beach.
Victoria’s revised road user charge for electric vehicle drivers is 2.8¢ per kilometre. On VicRoads bills it has been itemised as 2.8000000000000003¢ a kilometre. EV drivers say the blunder is indicative of bad policy and bad administration.