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Chris Minns, Premier of New South Wales and Jo Haylen, Minister for Transport, will welcome the latest Australian-made Parramatta River Class ferry, the Martin Green.

Sydney’s newest ferry sails into harbour weeks before passengers hop on

Electricity could become the future of ferry travel in Sydney, as the fourth vessel in the new seven-strong ferry fleet prepares to open to commuters.

  • Cindy Yin

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How Circular Quay got trapped in time, and why some fear for its future.

The single biggest obstacle to transforming Circular Quay

For as long as Circular Quay has existed, it’s been simultaneously adored and hated. And despite decades of attempts, no one seems able to get rid of the Cahill Expressway.

  • Julie Power and Anthony Segaert
Victorians will save up to $50 a week under a pitch by the Victorian Greens to trial 50¢ daily fares

Greens pitch 50¢ fares to Prahran voters

The Victorian Greens will pitch a 50¢ flat public transport fare to locals in the inner-city seat of Prahran in a bid to fend off the Liberals.

  • Carla Jaeger
The Bribie Island Bridge, with the Glasshouse Mountains in the background, is set to be duplicated by the state government.

Bribie residents rely on cars because ‘public transport is inadequate’

As the transport minister prepares to discuss the cost of a new Bribie Island Bridge, an unreleased government study reveals locals want better public transport.

  • Sean Parnell
Pawan Kaur has been forced to walk long distances along an unsafe road to get to her Mount Atkinson home from Rockbank railway station.

Long walks on gravel along dangerous roads: The fast-growing Melbourne suburbs waiting for buses and trains

In the outer west, where the car is king, residents want better public transport links. In a series, The Age explores why the west is Australia’s fastest-growing region and what’s holding it back from its full potential.

  • Patrick Hatch
A Metro train passes through the city during the launch of the first Metro line in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

‘So beautiful’: After years of delays, Ho Chi Minh City opens first metro train line

Years of start-and-stop construction means the seemingly new ticket vending machines are partly obsolete: they accept coins that are no longer in circulation.

  • Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen
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The trial of Victoria’s new myki-free payment system on Wangaratta’s bus network

I travelled to the last place you’d expect for a glimpse of our myki-free future

Melburnians have to travel a long way to see what public transport is like in the 21st century.

  • Patrick Hatch
Parramatta light rail GIF

After years of construction and testing, Parramatta gets its light rail

The service was behind scheduled and hit by major cost-blowouts, but that didn’t matter to the city’s first commuters on Friday morning.

  • Anthony Segaert
Commuters face renewed major disruption.

Sydney trains industrial action as it happened: NSW government to lodge bid to stop RTBU action; Haylen says impact to New Years Eve ‘intolerable’

The RTBU has won the right to resume industrial action across Sydney’s train network. Follow here for live updates.

  • Penry Buckley
Cross River Rail site at Roma Street.

‘A matter for them’: Regulator contradicts LNP Cross River Rail delay claims

The government says Brisbane’s newest rail line will not be ready for passengers until 2029, billions over budget, but have refused to outline key details.

  • Matt Dennien and Felicity Caldwell

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