While updating Wikipedia about tomorrow's new motorway — Victoria's getting an "M4" — noticed some unhealthy obsessions about a long-gone politician
(all fixed now)
(official lies)
#shitpost #m4 #motorway #tollway #tunnel #westgatetunnel #victoria #dictatordan #danandrews #danielandrews #alp #springst
Victoria to replicate NSW and continue to allow factory-made e-bikes/scooters on public transport. Modified e-bikes/scooters to be banned from 21 December 2025.
No paywall: https://archive.md/FLj39
Cool. Treaty. Can watch it live.
https://firstpeoplesvic.org/news/come-celebrate-treaty-with-us/
State Library of Victoria scraps restructure plan after outrage from famous writers and public https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/12/state-library-scraps-restructure-plan-after-outrage-from-famous-writers-and-public #springst #GLAM #libraries
"The project was initially costed at $5.5 billion with just $400 million of taxpayer investment, but that has since blown out to $10.2 billion with the state chipping in $4.2 billion."
Transurban has brought itself $40 billion in extra tolls on CityLink for only $6 billion and pushed the cost overrun almost entirely on to the tax payer.
The state government got completely screwed.
#SpringSt #WestgateTunnel #Melbourne
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-12/vic-west-gate-tunnel-ready-to-open/106134682
Fucking Exxon Mobil. Not content with fucking the world, decided to get Hobson's Bay Council (who happily obliged) to evict a dozen poor people stuck living next to their planet killing plant, because they made an odour complaint 3 years ago.
The residence fought back, and won.
They should now sue the council, and report them to IBAC:
Techno Park residents win zoning battle to remain in Williamstown affordable housing estate
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ptua/115688204006084126
The state government is now collecting the fares instead of the operators and paying the operator a fixed fee instead of the operating getting the fare revenue. Classic failing public-private partnerships.
Convicted property developer refusing order to restore protected grasslands he destroyed.
No paywall: https://archive.md/dJlg4
#Environment #UrbanPlanning #Melbourne #SpringSt #AusPol #GeneralNews
"The average Melburnian contributes 21¢ per weekday to the cost of climate change, but the amount varies widely, from less than 4¢ for people in parts of Carlton and Docklands with the best public transport and walking connections, up to 58¢ in car-dependent Bacchus March."
No paywall: https://archive.md/gWVsD
#UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange #Melbourne #SpringSt #AusPol #GeneralNews
Nicola Roxon condemns Victorian Government decision to axe VicHealth https://www.croakey.org/nicola-roxon-condemns-victorian-government-decision-to-axe-vichealth/ #auspol #Springst #health
Putting a child in prison for life is a moral injury that we may not recover from.
The State of Victoria will suffer from ill health if it closes VicHealth https://www.croakey.org/shock-and-alarm-greet-news-about-vichealths-demise/ #Springst #auspol #auslaw #health
Transport Victoria are expanding tram stops on the 57 tram line along Victoria St, Errol St and Queensberry St in North Melbourne and as a big fuck you to the disability community they're not making them accessible.
They're making the tram stops wider and adding zebra crossings but for some reason they can't be fucked rising the stop to the level of the tram to provide level boarding.
This is fucking outrageous.
Transport Victoria needed to make all tram stops accessible by 2022 and they failed to do that. The next deadline is only a few years away and they're planning to rebuild trams stops without making them accessible.
If you're in Melbourne please submit feedback on this consultation and tell them you support accessible tram stops.
https://engage.vic.gov.au/route-57-north-melbourne-tram-corridor
You can also email Sonya Kilkenny the Minister for Planning and tell them you support accessible tram stops.
reception.kilkenny@transport.vic.gov.au
They are also doing in person consultations on Saturday and Tuesday if you want to yell at them in person.
https://engage.vic.gov.au/project/route-57-north-melbourne-tram-corridor/meetings
#Melbourne #PublicTransport #SpringSt #Accessibility #AccesibleTramStops
About time they did this. Not requiring car parking will reduce the expense of building apartments, it's a good idea.
"Across the inner city, up to 40 per cent of residential car parks now sit empty, according to the state government. Developers are forced to go through lengthy planning processes to get permission to reduce car parking requirements.
"Under the new changes, apartments in areas deemed well serviced by public transport will have no minimum parking requirement."
#vicpol #SpringSt https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/car-park-requirements-set-to-be-scrapped-in-planning-shake-up-20251202-p5nkak.html
📊 Excellent data visualisation showing how Group Voting Tickets distort election outcomes in Victoria's upper house
"We’ve set a target for 25% of trips to be made by active transport by 2030..." ( https://www.climatechange.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/771742/transport-sector-pledge-2026-30.pdf )
Victoria’s Climate Change Strategy includes 25% of trips being made by active transport by 2030.
The strategy talks about how 60% of trips are less than 5km and could easily be done by bicycle or walking.
But we haven't seen much progress on this at all. In 2005 14% of trips were by active transport compared with only 16% in 2024.
Walking makes up the majority of these active transport trips with trips by bicycle making up only a few percent. The problem is that all of these walking trips are less than 2km and it's very difficult to entice people to walk further because walking is really slow.
The only way to significantly increase the amount of active transport trips is to prioritise bicycle infrastructure for short trips.
Sadly there has been very little investment in bicycles infrastructure, especially bicycle infrastructure for short trips. Most bicycle infrastructure investment has gone in to supporting long commuting trips where it's expected that people are riding their entire commute in to the CBD with almost nothing supporting shorter trips to local shops.
Getting this done in the next 4yrs will require a huge increase in the budget for active transport.
"Your travel time is about the same, but kids get home safely"
It's really nice to see Infrastructure Victoria promoting the safer 30km/h local streets message.
I don’t much like the state Labor government (too many careerist party hacks), but the people would need to be convinced the opposition LNP is a safe pair of hands before they vote for it; and let's face it, the LNP is a rabble. Vote Greens, IMO.
#VicPol #SpringSt https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-30/labor-liberal-victorian-state-election/106074182
