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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

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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 and Rebecca Peppiatt
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
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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.

Perth’s Mitchell Freeway.

Perth commuters to save seven minutes on their drive to work

The construction along the Mitchell Freeway southbound cost $209.6 million of state and federal government funds, and has been completed after months of work.

  • Holly Thompson
The Tonkin Highway between Hale Road and Kelvin Road is a major bottleneck.

Running the red light gauntlet on Tonkin Highway is about to get quicker

An expression of interest was released today for contractors to build grade-separated interchanges at Hale Road and Welshpool Road with construction expected to begin by the end of next year.

  • Hamish Hastie
The soon-to-be open Wilman Wadandi Highway.
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A drive down south is set to get about 20 minutes quicker

The 27km, four-lane stretch of highway connecting Forrest Highway to Bussell Highway has been named and is expected to open by the end of the year.

  • Michael Genovese and Claire Ottaviano

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