transport stories involving air, land, sea, rail and other forms
The Victoria Pass rebuild project on the Great Western Highway in NSW will include an extra lane after Canberra threw in an extra $100 million for the project. NSW is spending $100m on the two-lane causeway in the pass with
Sightseeing flights over the Gold Coast could enter the eVTOL age in 2028 under a tentative deal that has just been signed. Japan’s SkyDrive makes electric VTOL (Vertical Take-Off Landing) aircraft and signed a letter of intent to supply five
The airshow at the beach is to stay on the Gold Coast after Queensland secured the event for two more years. The 2026 Pacific Airshow’s Gold Coast event returned last weekend after last year’s event was cancelled due to cyclone
Shitbox Rally drivers are crossing the outback to raise money for a worthy cause (cancer research), personal challenges (breakdowns) and make new friends. More than 240 teams in the seven-day 3700-kilometre rally left Adelaide on Saturday (August 15) bound for
Peak hour services will be only partly restored across Brisbane and Gold Coast as of Monday (August 17), Queensland Rail says. The return of some services comes after some striking staff returned to work to clear a maintenance backlog caused
Stay alert and stay safe is the message Queensland Rail wants commuters to heed after releasing new video of close calls and falls at its train stations. Queensland Rail has released new footage of risky behaviour as part of TrackSafe
Eight tram stations and another 6.7km of rail line have officially joined the Gold Coast light rail (G:link) network. At 6am on Sunday (August 9), the first passengers boarded a G:link tram from Burleigh Heads bound for Miami, Nobby Beach
More trains will be running across Melbourne by the end of the month, a new-look state government says. And an order is in for 25 more locally built trains to compliment ones that are starting to be delivered. The government
New parents say they are almost always tired when behind the wheel, a new Monash University study’s survey shows. And the researchers want a better fatigue warning system in place for them. The university’s accident research centre surveyed 1660 drivers
Flying doctors in Queensland carried more patients and flew more with an average of 223 cases a day in the last 12 months. The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Queensland says it recorded more than 81,000 cases statewide in the
