Traffic
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Protests
‘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.
- by Hannah Kennelly
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Opinion
Development
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.
- by Shaun Carney
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City life
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.
- by Tom Cowie
Express deliveries
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.
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.
- by Rachael Dexter
Gridlock in Creekstone
Residents of a new estate face daily traffic chaos and extreme delays due to a developer's failure to install traffic lights at an increasingly busy intersection.
Workers still haven’t fully returned to the CBD – but the city doesn’t need them
Forget the nine-to-five office crowd – Melbourne city is finally back, but not as we know it.
- by Najma Sambul and Melissa Cunningham
Serial climate protesters jailed for blocking West Gate Bridge
A Sydney activist is among the three climate demonstrators who allegedly blocked inbound lanes on Tuesday morning, triggering a 25-kilometre traffic jam.
- by Lachlan Abbott and Alex Crowe
Farmer killed, hundreds of thousands still without power after wild storms
A dairy farmer is dead, while Phillip Island and its surrounding communities remain without electricity after wild storms battered Victoria on Tuesday.
- by Broede Carmody, Benjamin Preiss and Lachlan Abbott
‘Licence for an accident’: Mornington Peninsula pushes for speed limits to be slashed
More than 50 roads could have their limits lowered – some by as much as 50km/h – as the shire aims to take control from the state government on the issue.
- by Adam Carey
‘Like badly run charities’: How councils get car parking so wrong
Urban planner David Mepham says parking policies across Melbourne waste public money, lock up valuable land and contribute to the housing crisis.
- by Patrick Hatch
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