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Infrastructure Minister Catherine King.

Federal Labor stumps up $225 million for notorious Reid Highway Erindale Road intersection

The timing of the announcement during the election campaign and location of the two arterial roads mean Labor will hope it factors into voters minds in Cowan, Pearce and Moore.

  • Hamish Hastie

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A digital billboard in freeway-fringing bushland: jarring or justified?

Boys’ school plans bus-sized digital billboard for Kwinana Freeway

Aquinas College principal Robert Henderson said the plan did not “aesthetically compromise” the campus or river aspect and was a fantastic location for passing traffic.

  • Emma Young
250325 1 Media Release Keep the Sheep Rally May 2024. Protest handout picture. Credit Josh Fernandes Studios

Commuter chaos for Perth as Keep the Sheep trucks clog roads

Commuters be warned: the roads may be as packed as a livestock saleyard pen on Friday morning when truckers, farmers and their supporters drive through Perth as part of the Keep the Sheep protest movement.

  • Cameron Myles
Street parties WA Bassendean homepage image.

Cars injure hundreds of WA children. Here’s a plan to put that trend in reverse

Between 2020-2024, 250 children were injured or killed by cars in our state. But there are plans afoot to make WA roads safer for young people.

  • Holly Thompson
Despite record investment in recent years cycling spending amounts to just 2 per cent of the transport budget in WA.

Now that’s long term: At this rate, Perth’s long-term cycle network to take 100 years

How good are the primary and secondary cycle routes in your Perth or Peel state electorate? Check it out here with our handy visualisation broken down by area.

  • Emma Young
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

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