The unsexy solution to smashing Melbourne’s traffic congestion woes

The unsexy solution to smashing Melbourne’s traffic congestion woes

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.

  • byPatrick Hatch

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Record traffic and inflation drive toll road bonanza

Record traffic and inflation drive toll road bonanza

Road traffic growth and inflation-linked toll rises helped tollway giant Transurban earn nearly $1 billion from Melbourne’s drivers.

  • bySimon Johanson
The science stacks up for recycled roads. Why aren’t they everywhere?

The science stacks up for recycled roads. Why aren’t they everywhere?

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.

  • byLiam Mannix
‘Disgusting,dodgy’:Residents are over Melbourne’s worst underpasses

‘Disgusting,dodgy’:Residents are over Melbourne’s worst underpasses

Across Melbourne,there are similar stories of lament at the poor state of some of the city’s busiest underpasses.

  • byNajma Sambul
Road safety work ‘impossible’ without access to key data on deadly areas,engineers say

Road safety work ‘impossible’ without access to key data on deadly areas,engineers say

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.

  • byPatrick Hatch
Family devastated by dog walker’s crash death

Family devastated by dog walker’s crash death

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.

  • byAlex Crowe
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Kangaroos legend Glenn Archer fined after crashing into cyclist

Kangaroos legend Glenn Archer fined after crashing into cyclist

The former premiership player apologised to a cyclist he knocked over,after a court heard the man still suffers flashbacks of the incident.

  • byKaren Sweeney
Victoria ‘driving blind’ on road safety efforts as deaths hit 12-year high

Victoria ‘driving blind’ on road safety efforts as deaths hit 12-year high

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.

  • byPatrick Hatch
Mother grieves ‘beautiful girl’ who was killed by car outside Werribee home

Mother grieves ‘beautiful girl’ who was killed by car outside Werribee home

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.

  • byLachlan Abbott
Bus smashes into two homes on Mornington Peninsula

Bus smashes into two homes on Mornington Peninsula

A bus has left a trail of destruction after it was struck by a truck and crashed through two homes in Safety Beach.

  • byLachlan Abbott andAlex Crowe
The extra 0.000000000000003¢ on electric vehicle bills that makes little sense

The extra 0.000000000000003¢ on electric vehicle bills that makes little sense

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.

  • byBroede Carmody