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Plan ahead to avoid bumper-to-bumper traffic on the West Gate Freeway this summer.

Drivers warned to get ready for lengthy West Gate disruption

Motorists are being urged to plan ahead as lanes and ramps close to allow roadworks during summer.

  • Brittany Busch

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The increase in the congestion levy is designed to reduce the amount of traffic in inner Melbourne.

Parking to get more expensive as congestion levy rises 79 per cent

A hike in the levy to deter motorists from Melbourne’s CBD and inner suburbs has been lashed by a peak lobby group as ineffective.

  • Carla Jaeger and Kieran Rooney
The City of Melbourne wants Spencer Street turned into a “lively, attractive and welcoming street” by diverting traffic on to Wurundjeri Way. 

Tunnel traffic on a collision course with Spencer Street reinvention

Plans to turn Spencer Street into a pedestrian-friendly precinct are feared to be at risk from a West Gate Tunnel project off-ramp.

  • Patrick Hatch
Three-year-old Mila, who died after she was struck by a car at Endeavour Hills.

‘I see her face every time I close my eyes’: Three-year-old killed in school drop-off nightmare

The girl was crossing a busy suburban road with her family when she was struck by a car, later dying in hospital. Locals say the road, close to schools, is notorious for accidents.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Brendan Kelly uses a vintage Volkswagen Kombi to travel around his 140-acre school in Clyde North.

How migration is ‘turbocharging’ housing demand on Melbourne’s fringe

The government wants to flip Melbourne’s growth from the fringes to its established suburbs, but it will need to overcome years of migration trends to do so.

  • Adam Carey
Police are working to remove the 27-year-old Kensington woman disrupting traffic on the West Gate Freeway on Saturday afternoon.

‘Disrupt the weapons’: Woman arrested as protest against military expo blocks West Gate

An anti-war protester has been arrested after she “affixed” herself to a car decorated to look like a reptile, which blocked traffic ahead of a military exposition in Melbourne next week.

  • Hannah Kennelly
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Melbourne’s suburban sprawl has continued outwards for decades in attempt to keep up with housing demand.

Melbourne’s transformation is so rapid that it’s shocking

Within 30 years, Melbourne will have to house 8 million people. Every Victorian should know that number now, when we need to start planning for it.

  • Shaun Carney
Melbourne’s two remaining e-scooter zones have effectively been cut off from one another after a decision by the City of Melbourne to ban hire scooters.

The no-go zone that will soon make a cross-city scooter trip impossible

Melbourne’s two remaining e-scooter zones have effectively been cut off from one another after a decision by the City of Melbourne to ban hire scooters.

  • Tom Cowie
Electric bike and scooter riders are getting lost on CityLink’s roads and tunnels at least twice a week, with the bulk of them being food delivery workers.
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Electric bike and scooter riders are getting lost on CityLink’s roads and tunnels at least twice a week, with the bulk of them being food delivery workers.

New 30kmh speed limit signs in the City of Yarra.

Speed limit cut to 30km/h on almost every street in two suburbs

The City of Yarra is also campaigning for limits on exempt roads in Fitzroy and Collingwood – including Hoddle and Nicholson streets – to be reduced to either 40km/h or 60km/h.

  • Rachael Dexter

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