Forget the nine-to-five office crowd – Melbourne city is finally back,but not as we know it.
Whitehorse Council has drawn a new battle line over housing density amid fears that new planning precincts near the Suburban Rail Loop could threaten neighbourhood character and heritage housing.
Contractors on Melbourne’s airport rail link have been paid $67 million to delay to the project.
Major Victorian transport projects face being delayed as the state government seeks to slow ballooning debt before its budget.
Victoria’s public transport union has warned the government it is alienating regional communities after cancelling the Games and letting a V/Line pay dispute drag on.
Road closures from the West Gate Tunnel Project have caused traffic chaos for Docklands residents and businesses,with some opting to leave the precinct altogether.
Three months after the federal government said it would resolve the Melbourne Airport Rail stalemate,no one has been appointed to broker the peace.
Monash postgraduate student Irvan Adistha Putra can’t afford his favourite food,saying he is often forced to choose between buying groceries or paying for public transport.
The station’s roof may look good from above,but down on the platform level it is a dirty mess of inaudible announcements and poor signage.
A dairy farmer is dead,while Phillip Island and its surrounding communities remain without electricity after wild storms battered Victoria on Tuesday.
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio described it as “one of the largest outage events in the state’s history” after a storms flattened transmission towers and knocked out the state’s largest power station.