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Trains operating between Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham through the Metro Tunnel will take passengers for the first time - but not through the tunnel itself.

Busy train lines closing for works as Metro Tunnel trial looms

Passengers will board trains bound for the Metro Tunnel and its five new stations for the first time, but will need to wait to travel through the tunnel itself.

  • Patrick Hatch

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Greg Bisinella, president of the East Melbourne Group, which is calling for local streets to be slowed down to 30km/h.

This inner-city suburb could become an entirely 30km/h zone

Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece supports calls for a blanket speed limit to improve community safety and deter motorists from rat-running. 

  • Patrick Hatch
A truck stuck under the Montague Street bridge in 2017.

Speed limit cut to foil Melbourne’s truck-eating bridge

The government hopes slowing down vehicles as they approach Montague Street bridge in South Melbourne will allow drivers more time to realise they won’t fit underneath.    

  • Patrick Hatch
The scene of a Mother’s Day crash at Trafalgar, which killed a mother and injured her husband and their two children.

‘There are no excuses’: Nine dead in three days on Victorian roads

A woman whose family’s car rolled down an embankment is among nine people killed in crashes over the weekend and into Monday.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Alexander Darling
One Victorian has more than $400,000 in unpaid toll fines.

Twenty people. Nearly $6 million in fines. What went wrong?

Lawyers are calling on the government to announce an amnesty on penalty and enforcement fees attached to toll fines to stop people spiralling into unsustainable debt.

  • Daniella White and Broede Carmody
Does anybody in Melbourne know how to do a hook turn any more?

Think you know how to do a hook turn? Trust me, you’re doing it wrong

From South Melbourne to Carlton, new hook turns are appearing – often with no tram tracks in sight. Shame I’m the last person in Melbourne who knows how to do one.

  • James Panichi
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The Boulevard residents Sue, Mira, David, Simon and Desiree, who will fight the council’s proposal.

Why locals are fighting to keep the potholes on this dilapidated road

Driving on this road is a bone-rattling experience, but that hasn’t deterred hundreds of locals from fighting to save its potholes and cracked surface.

  • Adam Carey
An aerial view of construction for the North East Link at the land once owned by the Greek Orthodox Community.

Greek Orthodox community in compensation fight for land lost to North East Link

The Department of Transport and Planning paid $11.48 million to acquire this Bulleen site. But the Greek Orthodox Community is arguing in the Supreme Court the land is worth more than twice that.

  • Rachel Eddie
Andrea Cook in her carpark that she no longer needs since she decided to live without a car.

A tortuous path: The push to get Melburnians to ditch their cars

For all the ambitions of policymakers to shift the state’s deeply ingrained driving culture, data suggests Victorians are not ready to let go of their steering wheels.

  • Daniella White and Sophie Aubrey
Premier Jacinta Allan at the Metro Tunnel site on Thursday inspecting the project.

‘No place for this’: New CFMEU boss slams Metro Tunnel ‘ghost shift’ scandal

The new boss of Victoria’s embattled construction union has lashed out at those allegedly responsible for corrupting the Allan government’s giant project.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sarah Danckert

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