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Man dies, five injured after multi-vehicle crash closes the Hume Freeway
A large truck and several other vehicles collided, and the crash meant the freeway was closed for several hours.
- Angus Delaney and Ashleigh McMillan
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A year after $1 billion pledge, paperwork still not filed for freeway upgrade
The Allan government is being asked to explain its slow progress upgrading the Western Freeway after waiting more than a year to provide Canberra with a business case to unlock $1 billion in federal funds.
- Patrick Hatch and Kieran Rooney
Farmer’s son slams state’s legal tactics after $28m compensation win
The son of a western suburbs farmer who won $28m in compensation for the acquisition of his land for a future road has lashed the state government’s legal tactics.
- Adam Carey
The brain-breaking maths that means speeding won’t save you time
Let’s say you are driving 10 kilometres. At 60km/h, it takes you 10 minutes. At 30km/h, it takes you 20 minutes. How long would it take at 90km/h?
- Liam Mannix
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Flinders Lane to become ‘pedestrian first’ in trial barring cars from little streets
The City of Melbourne says it will track how the partial closures affect vehicle movements around the city as it looks to turn the Hoddle Grid’s little streets into pedestrian-friendly promenades.
- Cara Waters
These residents were told their road would reopen. Now it’s gone forever
Residents in Yallambie will be limited to just one road in and out of their suburb after the major project decided to permanently close a key section of road.
- Gemma Grant
North East Link quietly scraps promised wildlife crossing, leaving kangaroos stranded
The road project was supposed to provide an underpass for kangaroos. Instead, it has built a rope bridge for possums.
- Patrick Hatch
‘It’s petrifying’: Inner-west locals fear for safety after truck spike
Since the opening of the West Gate Tunnel, residents say more trucks are avoiding the toll road and rat-running near schools and shops, sparking safety fears.
- Rachael Ward
‘Someone will eventually be killed’: The decades-long call for a local truck bypass
An average of 50 trucks an hour drive down the main street of Lang Lang, a small town between Melbourne and Phillip Island that is a major raw material provider.
- Gemma Grant
The high-stakes ‘game of chicken’ highlighted by a median-strip fire
A grass fire along Hoddle Street has exposed the danger of overgrown state-owned median strips and verges.
- Rachael Dexter