‘Licence for an accident’:Mornington Peninsula pushes for speed limits to be slashed

‘Licence for an accident’:Mornington Peninsula pushes for speed limits to be slashed

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.

  • byAdam Carey

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‘Like badly run charities’:How councils get car parking so wrong

‘Like badly run charities’:How councils get car parking so wrong

Urban planner David Mepham says parking policies across Melbourne waste public money,lock up valuable land and contribute to the housing crisis.

  • byPatrick Hatch
Locals fear thousands more cars,traffic chaos when West Gate Tunnel opens

Locals fear thousands more cars,traffic chaos when West Gate Tunnel opens

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.

  • byPatrick Hatch
Council flips on state government as Caulfield tree war takes root

Council flips on state government as Caulfield tree war takes root

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.

  • byRachael Dexter
Worst year for road deaths since 2008 as COVID habits wreak havoc

Worst year for road deaths since 2008 as COVID habits wreak havoc

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.

  • byPatrick Hatch
Road delays and a myki hike loom for summer travellers

Road delays and a myki hike loom for summer travellers

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.

  • byPatrick Hatch
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Speed-camera workers to give Christmas motorists a heads up

Speed-camera workers to give Christmas motorists a heads up

Mobile-speed-camera workers will occasionally switch off their cameras as an unresolved pay dispute with private operator Serco drags on.

  • byPatrick Hatch
Major traffic delays ease after fatal freeway collision
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Major traffic delays ease after fatal freeway collision

Gridlocked traffic stretched back kilometres after the crash at one of the central points in Melbourne’s freeway network.

  • byLachlan Abbott andAlex Crowe
If we build it,will they come? Developer rails against council demand for high-density housing

If we build it,will they come? Developer rails against council demand for high-density housing

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.

  • byAdam Carey
Country road,city blues:Northern locals hemmed in by ‘lack of basic traffic planning’

Country road,city blues:Northern locals hemmed in by ‘lack of basic traffic planning’

The rural road that runs through the heart of a rapidly growing council in Melbourne’s north is already overwhelmed.

  • byAdam Carey
Road-safety experts push for 30km/h speed limit to save lives

Road-safety experts push for 30km/h speed limit to save lives

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.

  • byPatrick Hatch