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Commuter chaos for Perth as Keep the Sheep trucks clog roads

Commuters be warned:the roads may be as packed as a livestock saleyard pen on Friday morning when truckers,farmers and their supporters drive through Perth as part of the Keep the Sheep protest movement.

  • Cameron Myles

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Cars injure hundreds of WA children. Here’s a plan to put that trend in reverse

Between 2020-2024,250 children were injured or killed by cars in our state. But there are plans afoot to make WA roads safer for young people.

  • Holly Thompson
Despite record investment in recent years cycling spending amounts to just 2 per cent of the transport budget in WA.

Now that’s long term:At this rate,Perth’s long-term cycle network to take 100 years

How good are the primary and secondary cycle routes in your Perth or Peel state electorate? Check it out here with our handy visualisation broken down by area.

  • Emma Young
Traffic infringements are falling behind in WA.

Not got your speeding fine yet? It’s still coming,Saffioti says

The Department of Transport confirmed there were temporary delays with the processing of some traffic infringements as a result of the department taking over the system from WA Police.

  • Hamish Hastie
The Kwinana Freeway:how can you not love a city which gets a 100 points on the Global Liveability Index for its infrastructure?

Swathes of Kwinana Freeway to be widened under $700 million plan

Labor has started this week with a congestion election commitment blitz after yesterday promising a fix of the Erindale Road Reid Highway intersection.

  • Hamish Hastie
Police are investigating.

Cops’ impassioned plea to drivers after WA’s road toll reaches highest in a decade

A further four people have died on WA roads on a horror second last day of the year taking the state’s road toll to 186 deaths.

  • Hamish Hastie andRebecca Peppiatt
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Road Safety Commissioner Adrian Warner and Road Safety Minister David Michael.

New high-tech cameras on Perth roads ‘not revenue-raisers’,safety tsar says

The smart cameras,leased for five years at a cost of $22 million,can easily spot motorists using their phones or driving without a seatbelt.

  • Hamish Hastie
Police charged a 26-year-old man with a string of offences after a car chase that ended in a dramatic crash on Mounts Bay Road early on December 19.

‘One life lost on WA roads is one too many’:Police crack down on ‘fatal five’

The Christmas and New Year’s double-demerit period will be in place across WA from Friday,December 20 to January 5.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Between 2019 and 2023,136 people were killed or seriously injured on roads in Busselton and 59 in Augusta Margaret River.

Will speed drops on regional roads curb the road toll? A WA-first study will find out

The trial will take an evidence-based approach to find out if decreasing speed limits has a direct impact on road deaths and injuries.

  • Claire Ottaviano
Police are investigating.

Two women die in separate WA crashes,Perth man charged after police pursuit

This weekend has seen three serious traffic incidents in the state,two of them tragically involving fatalities in Carlisle and Norseman.