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  1. Via @humanhorseshoes this article encapsulates all that is wrong with drivers in Irish roads and the absolute abandonment of rule enforcement by authorities, while highlighting the useless infrastructure
    archive.vn/FEocV
    #drivers #roads #roadSafety #ireland

  2. Via @humanhorseshoes this article encapsulates all that is wrong with drivers in Irish roads and the absolute abandonment of rule enforcement by authorities, while highlighting the useless infrastructure
    archive.vn/FEocV
    #drivers #roads #roadSafety #ireland

  3. Potholes force cars off Calder Freeway as Victorian road anger rises
    By Anna McGuinness

    Maintenance crews are patching up potholes on the Calder Freeway between Gisborne and Sunbury after at least seven cars were damaged this morning.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/pot

    #Roads #AnnaMcGuinness

  4. Potholes force cars off Calder Freeway as Victorian road anger rises
    By Anna McGuinness

    Maintenance crews are patching up potholes on the Calder Freeway between Gisborne and Sunbury after at least seven cars were damaged this morning.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/pot

    #Roads #AnnaMcGuinness

  5. Gridlock ahead: Perth's industrial hub faces a decade of disruption
    By Lucy Murray

    Transport operators in Perth’s south worry worsening congestion on the Kwinana Freeway is already driving up costs, delaying deliveries and fatiguing drivers. Now they are preparing for at least another decade of disruption.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/kwi

    #Roads #DefenceandNationalSecurity #PopulationGroups #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #RoadTransportIndustry #Industry #LucyMurray

  6. Gridlock ahead: Perth's industrial hub faces a decade of disruption
    By Lucy Murray

    Transport operators in Perth’s south worry worsening congestion on the Kwinana Freeway is already driving up costs, delaying deliveries and fatiguing drivers. Now they are preparing for at least another decade of disruption.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/kwi

    #Roads #DefenceandNationalSecurity #PopulationGroups #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #RoadTransportIndustry #Industry #LucyMurray

  7. New Fremantle Traffic Bridge to open ahead of schedule
    By Briana Shepherd

    The new bridge is set to open before the end of the year, months ahead of schedule, with locals and businesses saying the impact has been better than expected.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/fre

    #Transport #Roads #StateandTerritoryGovernment #BrianaShepherd

  8. New Fremantle Traffic Bridge to open ahead of schedule
    By Briana Shepherd

    The new bridge is set to open before the end of the year, months ahead of schedule, with locals and businesses saying the impact has been better than expected.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/fre

    #Transport #Roads #StateandTerritoryGovernment #BrianaShepherd

  9. The offender had already removed his #insurance tracker from the #car and was deliberately picking rural #roads rather than highways to speed on (highways often have speed cameras and a greater #Police presence), which was what led to his undoing (its always a bad idea to hoon it at night during poor weather conditions!)

    Unfortunately that area is car-dependent so a lad like that with his first car is often popular with friends, until things go pear-shaped

    This is being used as another call for the #GraduatedDrivingLicence (already a thing in many Commonwealth countries), which may be beneficial but would have to be introduced carefully to avoid penalising young and new drivers working in health/social care (who often need to drive late at night and carry passengers)

    #RoadSafety

  10. The offender had already removed his #insurance tracker from the #car and was deliberately picking rural #roads rather than highways to speed on (highways often have speed cameras and a greater #Police presence), which was what led to his undoing (its always a bad idea to hoon it at night during poor weather conditions!)

    Unfortunately that area is car-dependent so a lad like that with his first car is often popular with friends, until things go pear-shaped

    This is being used as another call for the #GraduatedDrivingLicence (already a thing in many Commonwealth countries), which may be beneficial but would have to be introduced carefully to avoid penalising young and new drivers working in health/social care (who often need to drive late at night and carry passengers)

    #RoadSafety

  11. New smart highway technology a fix for renewable energy traffic boom
    By Courtney Yeandle

    A tiny Hunter town is feeling the impact of the renewable energy boom with a surge in heavy vehicle movements, but there is hope a first-of-its-kind trial on the Golden Highway will improve safety.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-08/sma

    #Roads #RuralandRemoteCommunities #Infrastructure #Transport #CourtneyYeandle

  12. New smart highway technology a fix for renewable energy traffic boom
    By Courtney Yeandle

    A tiny Hunter town is feeling the impact of the renewable energy boom with a surge in heavy vehicle movements, but there is hope a first-of-its-kind trial on the Golden Highway will improve safety.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-08/sma

    #Roads #RuralandRemoteCommunities #Infrastructure #Transport #CourtneyYeandle

  13. Country drivers dig deep for man tackling 'catastrophic' pothole crisis
    By Erin Somerville

    Victorian residents donate money to a man's mission to make crumbling country roads safer as they wait for government action.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-08/res

    #Roads #ErinSomerville

  14. Country drivers dig deep for man tackling 'catastrophic' pothole crisis
    By Erin Somerville

    Victorian residents donate money to a man's mission to make crumbling country roads safer as they wait for government action.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-08/res

    #Roads #ErinSomerville

  15. High-rise tower blocks
    With panoramic views of trains and coal
    Tired railway tracks tread faithfully
    The gasworks to behold

    (ELO - Hello My Old Friend)

    Today needs some colour in my life. Therefore we go with the railways in the evening sun.

    Camera: Leica Q2
    Edit: brilliance, highlights, brightness, saturation and vibrance

    #photo #photography #railways #rails #train #travel #evening #roads #sunset #summerday #landscape #austria

  16. High-rise tower blocks
    With panoramic views of trains and coal
    Tired railway tracks tread faithfully
    The gasworks to behold

    (ELO - Hello My Old Friend)

    Today needs some colour in my life. Therefore we go with the railways in the evening sun.

    Camera: Leica Q2
    Edit: brilliance, highlights, brightness, saturation and vibrance

    #photo #photography #railways #rails #train #travel #evening #roads #sunset #summerday #landscape #austria

  17. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐆🚗 On #Washington’s #OlympicPeninsula, camera traps and tracking collars show #deer shift their space and time use wherever #pumas roam, avoiding #roads and sleeping through the night hours when collisions are worst.

    The result is a drop of up to 76% in deer-vehicle crashes where the #predators are most active. Notably, pumas deliver this benefit mostly by scaring deer, not killing them, essentially serving as free wildlife bridges.

    👉 popsci.com/environment/pumas-p

    #pumas #puma #cougars #mountainlions #wolves #predators #ecology #wildlife #roadsafety #deer #behavior #ecosystemservices #olympicpeninsula #conservation #science

  18. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐆🚗 On #Washington’s #OlympicPeninsula, camera traps and tracking collars show #deer shift their space and time use wherever #pumas roam, avoiding #roads and sleeping through the night hours when collisions are worst.

    The result is a drop of up to 76% in deer-vehicle crashes where the #predators are most active. Notably, pumas deliver this benefit mostly by scaring deer, not killing them, essentially serving as free wildlife bridges.

    👉 popsci.com/environment/pumas-p

    #pumas #puma #cougars #mountainlions #wolves #predators #ecology #wildlife #roadsafety #deer #behavior #ecosystemservices #olympicpeninsula #conservation #science

  19. It seems City of Edinburgh Council have realised paving over a drain isn’t the smartest idea.

  20. It seems City of Edinburgh Council have realised paving over a drain isn’t the smartest idea.

  21. Engineer says 50 years of erosion research ignored by government and courts

    "I've come to the conclusion, after 50 years, that there's very little other option than for the Australian government, Australia-wide, to just simply say, 'You can enjoy the coast while it's there, but property owners cannot protect their property.' End of story," Mr Gordon said."

    "The Byron and Tweed Shire councils were urged to control development within 1 kilometre of the shoreline, and stipulate landholders who disregarded the policy did so "at their own risk".

    The paper 'Beach law in the anthropocene' "reviewed legal systems around the world and found private property rights trumped public interest...Our common law tradition assumes coastlines are stable and coastal property boundaries can be fixed...But as the effects of climate change become more dramatic, those assumptions no longer hold."

    "Professor Smith said it was time for tough discussions about a transition strategy.
    "We really need to think about what sort of future we want for the coastal zone, and we need to resolve who bears the ultimate rights and responsibilities for these lands — whether we are going to preference private property rights over public rights, whether we're going to preference people's rights over nature's rights," he said."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/bea
    #erosion #coast #NSW #PrivateProperty #rights #FossilFuels #science #climatefiasco #roads #PublicInterest #CompulsoryAcquisition #governance #law

  22. Engineer says 50 years of erosion research ignored by government and courts

    "I've come to the conclusion, after 50 years, that there's very little other option than for the Australian government, Australia-wide, to just simply say, 'You can enjoy the coast while it's there, but property owners cannot protect their property.' End of story," Mr Gordon said."

    "The Byron and Tweed Shire councils were urged to control development within 1 kilometre of the shoreline, and stipulate landholders who disregarded the policy did so "at their own risk".

    The paper 'Beach law in the anthropocene' "reviewed legal systems around the world and found private property rights trumped public interest...Our common law tradition assumes coastlines are stable and coastal property boundaries can be fixed...But as the effects of climate change become more dramatic, those assumptions no longer hold."

    "Professor Smith said it was time for tough discussions about a transition strategy.
    "We really need to think about what sort of future we want for the coastal zone, and we need to resolve who bears the ultimate rights and responsibilities for these lands — whether we are going to preference private property rights over public rights, whether we're going to preference people's rights over nature's rights," he said."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/bea
    #erosion #coast #NSW #PrivateProperty #rights #FossilFuels #science #climatefiasco #roads #PublicInterest #CompulsoryAcquisition #governance #law

  23. Tolls to be lowered for multiple Sydney motorways but savings 'modest'
    By Nick Dole

    Toll prices will be lowered on Sydney motorways including the Lane Cove Tunnel, M2, and Cross City Tunnel, but neither WestConnex nor NorthConnex will be included.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/tol

    #Roads #RoadTransportIndustry #StateandTerritoryGovernment #NickDole

  24. Tolls to be lowered for multiple Sydney motorways but savings 'modest'
    By Nick Dole

    Toll prices will be lowered on Sydney motorways including the Lane Cove Tunnel, M2, and Cross City Tunnel, but neither WestConnex nor NorthConnex will be included.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/tol

    #Roads #RoadTransportIndustry #StateandTerritoryGovernment #NickDole

  25. Et tu, The Guardian?
    Who on Earth thought that subsidized, city-run grocery stores were supposed to be profitable, or break even?!?
    It's like saying that trains (for people, not goods) can be profitable; they can't, worldwide, it's proven historically.
    #socialism #public #beaches #interstate #roads #subsidized #car #culture #tax #breaks for #oil #gas
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

  26. Et tu, The Guardian?
    Who on Earth thought that subsidized, city-run grocery stores were supposed to be profitable, or break even?!?
    It's like saying that trains (for people, not goods) can be profitable; they can't, worldwide, it's proven historically.
    #socialism #public #beaches #interstate #roads #subsidized #car #culture #tax #breaks for #oil #gas
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

  27. The role of ecological disruption in disease emergence.

    * "Global commodity markets drive deforestation in Australia, one byproduct of which is the spillover of Hendra virus."

    "More than one in five bat species globally are under severe threat from human pressures such as habitat loss and degradation, climate change, overexploitation and disease. Their population numbers and collective health, including the constellation of viruses they carry as a group, respond to these disturbances. Australian flying foxes are no different. The emergence of Hendra virus suggested that something had tipped the ecological balance."

    A wildlife ecologist believes "that the virus was being driven out by rapid changes in bat ecology, specifically in the loss of trees that traditionally provided them with food."

    "In the short history of European settlement in Australia, around half the woodlands and forests have been modified or removed for agriculture or urban development. At the turn of the century, the period when things began to change in the researchers’ accumulated data, Australia’s deforestation rate was the sixth highest in the world."

    "It is no coincidence that, of all places, Hendra virus emerged in Queensland. Nowhere else in the country had seen more of its blossoming native trees removed.In some parts of subtropical Australia, more than 95% of their winter foraging area has been destroyed."

    "This modified interface between people, horses and bats explain why the disease was being detected with a greater frequency." >>
    theguardian.com/science/2026/a
    #pathogens #LandClearing #DiseaseEmergence #bats #horses #sprawl #HabitatDestruction #wildlife #harm #destruction #extractivism #deforestation #beef #meat #logging #mining #roads #hendra #VirusSpillover #forests #HWI #Australia

    Image: Cleared land and native vegetation in the Brigalow Belt in central Queensland. Photograph: Auscape/UIG/Getty Images/ Guardian

  28. The role of ecological disruption in disease emergence.

    * "Global commodity markets drive deforestation in Australia, one byproduct of which is the spillover of Hendra virus."

    "More than one in five bat species globally are under severe threat from human pressures such as habitat loss and degradation, climate change, overexploitation and disease. Their population numbers and collective health, including the constellation of viruses they carry as a group, respond to these disturbances. Australian flying foxes are no different. The emergence of Hendra virus suggested that something had tipped the ecological balance."

    A wildlife ecologist believes "that the virus was being driven out by rapid changes in bat ecology, specifically in the loss of trees that traditionally provided them with food."

    "In the short history of European settlement in Australia, around half the woodlands and forests have been modified or removed for agriculture or urban development. At the turn of the century, the period when things began to change in the researchers’ accumulated data, Australia’s deforestation rate was the sixth highest in the world."

    "It is no coincidence that, of all places, Hendra virus emerged in Queensland. Nowhere else in the country had seen more of its blossoming native trees removed.In some parts of subtropical Australia, more than 95% of their winter foraging area has been destroyed."

    "This modified interface between people, horses and bats explain why the disease was being detected with a greater frequency." >>
    theguardian.com/science/2026/a
    #pathogens #LandClearing #DiseaseEmergence #bats #horses #sprawl #HabitatDestruction #wildlife #harm #destruction #extractivism #deforestation #beef #meat #logging #mining #roads #hendra #VirusSpillover #forests #HWI #Australia

    Image: Cleared land and native vegetation in the Brigalow Belt in central Queensland. Photograph: Auscape/UIG/Getty Images/ Guardian

  29. Outback businesses blame Live Traffic NSW for customer downturn
    By Soofia Tariq and Andrew Schmidt

    Small businesses in the outback say inaccuracies on Live Traffic NSW about whether roads are open or closed, or if they even exist, are causing confusion among travellers and a loss of vital income.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/out

    #Roads #SmallBusinesses #TravelandTourism #RuralandRemoteCommunities #RegionalCommunities #SoofiaTariq #AndrewSchmidt

  30. Outback businesses blame Live Traffic NSW for customer downturn
    By Soofia Tariq and Andrew Schmidt

    Small businesses in the outback say inaccuracies on Live Traffic NSW about whether roads are open or closed, or if they even exist, are causing confusion among travellers and a loss of vital income.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/out

    #Roads #SmallBusinesses #TravelandTourism #RuralandRemoteCommunities #RegionalCommunities #SoofiaTariq #AndrewSchmidt

  31. 'It just gets forgotten': Increase in cars abandoned on Canberra roads
    By Emmy Groves

    Tow truck operators say they are being called to more abandoned vehicles across Canberra — and while the government aims to resolve cases within nine days, officials say investigations often take four to six weeks.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/act

    #RecyclingandWasteManagement #TrafficOffences #Roads #EmmyGroves

  32. 'It just gets forgotten': Increase in cars abandoned on Canberra roads
    By Emmy Groves

    Tow truck operators say they are being called to more abandoned vehicles across Canberra — and while the government aims to resolve cases within nine days, officials say investigations often take four to six weeks.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/act

    #RecyclingandWasteManagement #TrafficOffences #Roads #EmmyGroves

  33. Nearly 350km of NT highway still closed months after flood damage

    Repair work is yet to start on 350 kilometres of the Sandover Highway, despite extensive damage.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/nea

    #Roads #BeefCattleFarming #Floods

  34. Nearly 350km of NT highway still closed months after flood damage

    Repair work is yet to start on 350 kilometres of the Sandover Highway, despite extensive damage.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/nea

    #Roads #BeefCattleFarming #Floods

  35. @Akshay Meaning 71% will still be ICE-powered or diesel. How many #cars will be on the #roads #worldwide in 2026? And what will be the combined #CO2 #emissions from all #road #traffic that year? It's a bit too early to rejoice!

  36. @Akshay Meaning 71% will still be ICE-powered or diesel. How many #cars will be on the #roads #worldwide in 2026? And what will be the combined #CO2 #emissions from all #road #traffic that year? It's a bit too early to rejoice!

  37. "Reading named worst place for cyclist safety outside London"

    readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26

    "Statistics showed that in 2024, there were 277 casualties in Reading on the highway where someone was killed or seriously injured, and 80 of these (28.9 per cent) involved an injury to a cyclist."

    #cycling #UK #Reading #RoadViolence #RoadDanger #transport #roads #biketooter

  38. Victoria's roads are crumbling, but how much would it cost to fix them?
    By Jean Bell

    Both sides of politics have unveiled their roads funding election promises, but regional council figures suggest the pledges could be inadequate.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/how

    #Roads #LocalGovernment #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StateandTerritoryElections #JeanBell

  39. Tradies swap swags for dongas on wheels to retain workers out bush
    By Crispian Yeomans and Fiona Breen

    From air-conditioned bedrooms to kitchen suites, a mobile road train camp is solving housing on the road while retaining more skilled workers out west.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-29/mob

    #Work #RuralandRemoteCommunities #HumanInterest #Roads #CrispianYeomans #FionaBreen