More than 50 roads could have their limits lowered – some by as much as 50km/h – as the shire aims to take control from the state government on the issue.
Urban planner David Mepham says parking policies across Melbourne waste public money,lock up valuable land and contribute to the housing crisis.
The $10 billion toll road is due to open in 2025,but is projected to pump an extra 9000 vehicles daily onto streets in North and West Melbourne. Locals want answers on how that traffic will be controlled.
Glen Eira City Council says it can no longer back plans to raze more than 250 trees as part of a bike-path upgrade on the boundary of Caulfield Racecourse.
The greatest loss of life on Victoria’s roads in 15 years has prompted a government commitment to review speed limits on country roads,and calls for stronger police enforcement to correct dangerous driving habits.
Holidaymakers have been told to brace for significant traffic delays from Boxing Day as maintenance works on the West Gate Bridge slow travel across the Yarra.
Mobile-speed-camera workers will occasionally switch off their cameras as an unresolved pay dispute with private operator Serco drags on.
Gridlocked traffic stretched back kilometres after the crash at one of the central points in Melbourne’s freeway network.
A Supreme Court fight looms over whether apartment buildings should be built instead of houses near a promised railway station in Melbourne’s outer west.
The rural road that runs through the heart of a rapidly growing council in Melbourne’s north is already overwhelmed.
At 40km/h – which is widely enforced in busy areas and around schools – there is still a 60 per cent likelihood a person hit will be killed.