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One Victorian has more than $400,000 in unpaid toll fines.

Twenty people. Nearly $6 million in fines. What went wrong?

Lawyers are calling on the government to announce an amnesty on penalty and enforcement fees attached to toll fines to stop people spiralling into unsustainable debt.

  • Daniella White and Broede Carmody

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Does anybody in Melbourne know how to do a hook turn any more?

Think you know how to do a hook turn? Trust me, you’re doing it wrong

From South Melbourne to Carlton, new hook turns are appearing – often with no tram tracks in sight. Shame I’m the last person in Melbourne who knows how to do one.

  • James Panichi
The Boulevard residents Sue, Mira, David, Simon and Desiree, who will fight the council’s proposal.

Why locals are fighting to keep the potholes on this dilapidated road

Driving on this road is a bone-rattling experience, but that hasn’t deterred hundreds of locals from fighting to save its potholes and cracked surface.

  • Adam Carey
An aerial view of construction for the North East Link at the land once owned by the Greek Orthodox Community.

Greek Orthodox community in compensation fight for land lost to North East Link

The Department of Transport and Planning paid $11.48 million to acquire this Bulleen site. But the Greek Orthodox Community is arguing in the Supreme Court the land is worth more than twice that.

  • Rachel Eddie
Andrea Cook in her carpark that she no longer needs since she decided to live without a car.

A tortuous path: The push to get Melburnians to ditch their cars

For all the ambitions of policymakers to shift the state’s deeply ingrained driving culture, data suggests Victorians are not ready to let go of their steering wheels.

  • Daniella White and Sophie Aubrey
Premier Jacinta Allan at the Metro Tunnel site on Thursday inspecting the project.

‘No place for this’: New CFMEU boss slams Metro Tunnel ‘ghost shift’ scandal

The new boss of Victoria’s embattled construction union has lashed out at those allegedly responsible for corrupting the Allan government’s giant project.

  • Nick McKenzie and Sarah Danckert
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Rockback resident Donna Southern started the Leakes Needs Lights campaign.

It’s a suburb ‘on steroids’, but residents are forced to avoid its main road

Once a single-lane road between farms, this is now a major thoroughfare carrying 14,500 cars a day. But locals say crashes, bottlenecks and dangerous manoeuvres prove urgent upgrades are needed.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Gill Gannon and Bea Tomlin, who help coordinate the Keep Champion Road Open group.

Locals hate this level crossing removal plan. Now even Labor MPs are attacking it

Residents say the plan would split their inner-west community in two. Now, pressure is growing after local federal and state MPs spoke out.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Premier Jacinta Allan at one of the new Metro Tunnel stations earlier this month.

Cost of Victoria’s major projects jumps $11.6 billion in a year

The auditor-general has found that 53 of 113 major state projects would cost a combined $14.9 billion more than first budgeted.

  • Rachel Eddie
An aerial view of works on the North East Link on Friday.

Sinkhole halts tunnelling on $26 billion North East Link project

Tunnelling on a flagship state government infrastructure project has come to a halt after a sinkhole emerged near two boring machines.

  • Tom Cowie

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