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A train carriage is removed from the tracks after derailing in Clifton Hill.

Major commuter train lines to resume but derailment cause still unknown

Mernda and Hurstbridge services will resume fully on Monday morning after more than 100,000 commuters were forced to resort to travel alternatives after a train derailed last Sunday.

  • Ashleigh McMillan

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Emergency services attend to a patient with back injuries after a head-on collision on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Traffic chaos after head-on collision on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Heavy traffic backed up for kilometres from the Sydney Harbour Bridge after a head-on collision closed several lanes during peak hour traffic.

  • Josefine Ganko
Something wasn’t right, but I had absolutely no idea what it was.

My car kept making a thucka-thucka noise, but no one else could hear it

“What kind of noise?” Glen, the mechanic, asked me. “Like a hollow aluminium chain being dragged across a swamp,” I said. Glen did not reply.

  • Nicola Redhouse
After two hours in traffic, anyone who acts on the urge to late merge should be sent to prison.

‘The right lane is faster’, and other thoughts I don’t appreciate in a traffic jam

When early morning road congestion turns a 20-minute drive into two hours of pain, you’re only ever one late merge away from a mental breakdown.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Commuters wait at a Sydney train station.

Why doesn’t my boss agree that commuting is a waste of time?

For too long, the time and cost associated with lengthy commutes was waved away as a necessary evil. That era is over.

  • Jonathan Rivett
Women are more likely to support work from home provisions.

Why where you work is the new political battleground

One-third of us work from home at least some of the time. That’s a big clue as to why Labor is talking about it so much.

  • Shane Wright
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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

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