Roads
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.
- by Simon Johanson
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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.
- by Liam Mannix
‘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.
- by Najma Sambul
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.
- by Patrick Hatch
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.
- by Alex Crowe
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.
- by Karen Sweeney
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.
- by Patrick Hatch
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.
- by Lachlan Abbott
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Road safety
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.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Alex Crowe
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.
- by Broede Carmody
Accreditation mess leaves taxi and Uber drivers out of work
Transport drivers are blaming a Victorian government body for delays in accreditation which means they cannot work.
- by Stephen Brook