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A truck and a light rail tram were involved in a collision in the Sydney CBD.

Light rail disrupted after truck crash, chaos on M4

The city’s light rail services have been disrupted following a truck crash while traffic came to a standstill on one of Sydney’s busiest motorways, causing chaos for the Friday morning commute.

  • Jessica McSweeney

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Bankstown line commuters will be forced into the nightmare of catching replacement buses along gridlocked roads.

‘We haven’t got the drivers’: Bus replacement for 12-month rail closure to cause chaos

Amid a chronic shortage of drivers, authorities will need to transport up to 60,000 commuters a day during the shutdown of the Bankstown rail line for its conversion to Metro.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Traffic in Sydney on November 13, 2023

The control room fail that left tens of thousands of Sydneysiders fuming

For 33 minutes, 1.5 million litres of water poured into the M8 tunnel because of a sprinkler malfunction, causing long delays for morning commuters.

  • Catherine Naylor
Traffic backed up on approach to the Bridge.

Traffic chaos after crash in Sydney Harbour Tunnel

Motorists heading into the city are being warned to expect significant delays.

  • Carrie Fellner
Transport chaos at Sydney Olympic Park rail station after the Women’s World Cup semi-final.

‘Due to vandalism’: Train chaos as Matildas fans hit by delays getting home

Sydney Trains has blamed vandalism as the cause of delays on its network as tens of thousands of Matildas fans try to make their way back home.

  • Sarah Keoghan
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10-year-old Spoodle named Heidi took a morning sprint along the T1 North Shore line during the morning peak. She managed to evade rescuers for just over an hour and completed two laps of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as she ran through Milsons Point and North Sydney Stations.
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Heidi the spoodle brings trains to a halt with peak-hour run on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Heidi the spoodle went off leash on the North Shore train line during Thursday morning’s commute, completing two laps of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a one-hour run.

  • Danielle Smith
The Coomera Connector (Second M1) is Queensland’s biggest single road project

‘Second M1’ set to relieve Brisbane-Gold Coast traffic by 60,000 trips daily

The commute between Queensland’s two biggest cities will soon get faster after the first sod of soil was turned on the Coomera Connector on Sunday.

  • Cloe Read
Blockade Australia climate change protestors move around Hyde Park on day two of their planned week long protests. Some arrests were made. 28 June, 2022. Photo: Brook Mitchell/The Sydney Morning Herald

Driver fined, more protesters charged in second day of CBD climate protests

More protesters face potential jail time while the man behind the wheel of a car seen driving into marchers on Monday has been fined.

  • Jenny Noyes
A protester used a bike lock to attach herself to a car blocking the entrance to the Sydney Harbour Tunnel.

Police poised to pounce as more disruptive climate protests expected

Members of the Blockade Australia group caused major disruptions across Sydney’s CBD on Monday, leading to 10 arrests with more expected in coming days.

  • Jenny Noyes

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