What are your plans to deal with population pressures in Melbourne and the regions?
How do we choose what to build? And do we have the right priorities?
Suburban Rail Loop: the right track or ‘extravagance and folly’?
The first circular rail line through Melbourne’s eastern suburbs was a disaster. Will the Suburban Rail Loop repeat history or secure the city’s future?
- by Patrick Hatch
‘Diabolical’ state of Victoria’s roads open up an election pothole
Road damage caused by recent wild weather has sparked a war of words over whether the Andrews government had done enough to look after them.
- by Patrick Hatch
Exclusive
The suburbs that will suffer most from Melbourne’s planning failure
These booming communities could be cut off from employment and services if the government fails to redirect population growth away from the outer fringe, according to authors of the blueprint guiding Melbourne’s expansion.
- by Patrick Hatch
Consider delaying Melbourne Airport rail link, Infrastructure Australia advises
The federal infrastructure adviser has urged the Albanese and Victorian governments to consider delaying the $13 billion Melbourne Airport Rail project over concerns about potential cost blow-outs and low patronage in its first decade of operation.
- by Patrick Hatch
‘Capital of Melbourne’s west’ wants the new station it was promised
The Andrews government has drastically wound back a promise to build a transport “super hub” in Sunshine, in a move community groups and the local council say is a missed opportunity to help transform the suburb into the economic powerhouse of Melbourne’s west.
- by Patrick Hatch
Victorian opposition pledges to halve V/Line fares
Liberal leader Matthew Guy said train replacement bus services would also be free under a plan that could save daily Geelong-Melbourne commuters up to $1762 a year.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Sumeyya Ilanbey
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‘Gone a bit nuclear’: Experts warn opposition’s $2-a-day public transport fares will worsen inequality
Under the opposition’s plan, daily zone 1 and 2 fares would drop from $9.20 to $2, or from $4.60 to $1 for concession holders, but analysis shows wealthier suburbs better served by public transport would benefit the most.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey and Roy Ward
‘A real nightmare’: Potholes putting drivers and their cars at risk
Potholes are appearing everywhere as heavy rain leaves the roads in a particularly bad shape. And crews are unable to do major repair work until the weather clears.
- by Tom Cowie
Andrews admits Metro upgrades to outer west at least six years away
Premier pledges $650m to improve V/Line train services to outer western suburbs but has refused to say when he will deliver the Metro services he promised four years ago.
- by Patrick Hatch
‘Capital of Melbourne’s west’ wants the new station it was promised
The Andrews government has drastically wound back a promise to build a transport “super hub” in Sunshine, in a move community groups and the local council say is a missed opportunity to help transform the suburb into the economic powerhouse of Melbourne’s west.
- by Patrick Hatch
Explainer
What are your plans to deal with population pressures in Melbourne and the regions?
Services and infrastructure have not kept up with population growth and the cracks are starting to show. Our readers have told us they want answers from Victoria’s politicians.
- by Patrick Hatch
What is Victoria’s Agenda for the 2022 state election?
For this election, The Age is shifting its approach to focus on what Victorians want to discuss – what matters most to you – rather than what the political parties and candidates want the election to be about.
- by Gay Alcorn
The voters making this election the battle for the ’burbs
Locals campaigning against higher density in the marginal seat of Ashwood have been organised by an unlikely ally — the former spokesman for the property and building industries.
- by Rachel Eddie