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The wooden “fish net” at the Yarraville entrance to the West Gate Tunnel.

Icon or eyesore? Inside the West Gate Tunnel’s public art gamble

It cost billions and is years overdue. As the West Gate Tunnel finally nears completion, will its ambitious design make it a beloved icon or a costly eyesore?

  • Patrick Hatch

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Melbourne Lord Mayor Nick Reece has proposed a crackdown on pedestrians who don’t keep to the left on CBD streets. His pictured in March with security guard hird to boost safety in the city in a six-week trial.

Pedestrian etiquette in Melbourne has reached new lows. It’s time for a ‘keep-left’ crackdown

On any major CBD street you have fast walkers, slow walkers, people drifting diagonally like bishops on a chessboard, or those staring at their phone. It’s time for both carrot and stick.

  • Nick Reece
St Francis Xavier Primary School principal Philip Cachia on busy Mayona Road, Montmorency.

School community hits a roadblock in push to ease traffic flow

A neighbourhood in Melbourne’s north-east is at odds about a purpose-built road closure, which was put in place by the council in 1973.

  • Gemma Grant
Police are investigating a crash in Ravenhall after a van became wedged underneath a parked semi-trailer.

Driver dies after van becomes trapped under semi-trailer in Melbourne’s west

The driver, a 57-year-old man from Werribee, died at the scene.

  • Hannah Hammoud
An artist’s image of the proposed Beveridge terminal, which would handle goods moved on the Inland Rail.

Deafening silence is government’s shameful habit when it comes to taxpayers’ money

Yet again, huge sums of public money are being spent without any hint to the taxpayer of the value or when they might see it.

  • The Age's View
New housing in Manor Lakes butts up against the reserve for the future Outer Metropolitan Ring.

$350m spent buying land, a call for urgency, but no sign of Melbourne’s mega-road

The 100-kilometre outer ring road is not high on the public’s radar, but the government has spent millions securing its path, and internal documents reveal it was urged to finish the first stage by 2031.

  • Adam Carey and Clay Lucas
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Janus Electric CEO Ian Campbell with an electric battery-powered truck.

Trucks are big polluters, but can batteries make them cleaner?

In 2024, trucks emitted 22 million tonnes of CO2, and the freight industry is still debating how to decarbonise the long-haul routes.

  • Angus Delaney
A toddler and his grandparents were hit by an out-of-control car in Wantirna South on Thursday.

Victoria to weigh up elderly driver tests after Wantirna South crash

 The government says there is a “valid question” over whether the state should make fitness-to-drive tests mandatory after fatal crash in Melbourne’s east.

  • Patrick Hatch
Edwin Maher

It took crashing into my garage door to realise I had to hand in my driver’s licence

You might remember me from my time as the ABC Victoria weatherman in the ’80s and ’90s, when I had a collection of quirky pointers sent in by viewers.

  • Edwin Maher
Chapel Street speed limits are set to be reduced to 30km/h.

Revheads in retreat as Chapel Street speed limit slashed to 30km/h

Stonnington councillors have voted unanimously to trial lower speed limits, but that won’t mean the end of “chap laps”.

  • Adam Carey