Transport

Roxsy Francis is full of nerves and excitement as she prepares to take her manual licence test, even as the cars drop in popularity.

Climate change, the cost-of-living crisis and healthy lifestyle goals should make active transport like cycling a no-brainer. So why does Australia struggle to build a bike culture? 

After almost a decade of campaigning, residents welcome safety improvements at a notorious stretch of the Princes Highway considered the most crash-prone turn-off in southern New South Wales.

South Australia's peak medical body is calling for reforms to current e-bike laws in the state, including a ban on children aged under 16 from riding them.

Businesses relying on heavy transport to move goods across the Victoria-NSW border near Swan Hill say they are growing frustrated at the continual delays in replacing a 130-year-old wooden bridge.

A Gold Coast council report finds an e-bike crackdown has failed to significantly reduce anti-social behaviour, with many riders ignoring compliance officers.

A small community's businesses say they will be forced to continue shedding staff and cutting days while the state government decides on financial relief.

A proposed 10km/h speed limit for e-mobility on footpaths should only apply in high pedestrian zones and not on shared paths, a Queensland parliamentary committee has recommended.

The WA government delivers a big-spending budget, focused on housing, health and cost of living relief including a $100 fuel handout, as a $2.4 billion surplus is unveiled. Here's what you need to know.

Australian and international engineering firms are being shortlisted as they propose solutions to the failed section of the Great Western Highway.

The ACT government sought feedback on two possible routes for light rail from the city south to Woden, and is now pushing ahead with its preferred more-direct path.

Sales of large utes have increased by 270 per cent since 2019, data from a national transport safety body.

The death of a beloved school teacher in a crash with a road train has prompted a call to review the safety of an unsealed road in remote WA.

The government's proposed legislation — including new licensing requirements, a 10km/h speed limit on footpaths, and an age restriction — are expected to become law in July.

Drivers could soon be travelling on roads built for US and European climates, as supply disruptions force governments to change the standard of bitumen used in Australia. 

Despite fuel prices soaring in March, the number of vehicles travelling along a key carpooling lane in Sydney increased by just 1 per cent. A transport expert says more needs to be done to encourage people to share their commutes.

The Fair Work Commission orders that retailers, miners and other companies that use truck drivers and transport operators must hold twice-monthly reviews of fuel prices and adjust their rates accordingly.

Workers in road-reliant industries are calling on the federal government to provide urgent funding to repair the NT's road network, which was severely damaged by floods.

With Neuron's orange scooters having left Canberra, Lime has introduced a fleet of green scooters and e-bikes across the capital in partnership with the ACT government. 

Tasmania has 100 days of petrol and 58 days of diesel supply available, the government says — and that the Geelong refinery fire won't be a problem.