VICTORIAN ROADS AND PORTS MINISTER Tim Pallas has today announced a new action plan targeting the safety of motorcyclists and scooter riders.

The plan, which will be implemented over the next four years, will seek to significantly reduce numbers of fatalities and injuries sustained by motorcycle and scooter riders on Victoria’s roads.
“The new plan encourages greater [...]

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POLICE IN MELBOURNE have caught 14 drink-drivers in an operation aimed at motorists who try to avoid booze buses by using back streets.

The blitz in the inner suburb of St Kilda, found one in every 33 drivers tested were over the legal limit. A 27 year-old St Kilda man blew the [...]

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VICTORIAN ROADS MINISTER Tim Pallas announced today that new laws will be introduced from November 9, including the banning of most mobile phone use and navigation equipment that is not held in a vehicle-mounted cradle. Other new laws will see drivers lose 3 demerit points and receive a $234 fine for passengers [...]

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THE RENAULT-NISSAN ALLIANCE has announced a partnership between it and the Victorian Government that aims to smooth the introduction of zero-emissions vehicles to the state’s roads.

The Alliance will work with the Brumby Government to identify potential issues that may delay the wide scale uptake of battery-electric vehicles, principally the recently-revealed Nissan LEAF EV.

The LEAF is [...]

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MEMBERS OF VICTORIA’S POLICE force have been spotted motoring around Melbourne’s roads in a 7.5-tonne armoured vehicle, which may be used by the force’s elite Special Operations Group to respond to potential terrorist threats or armed sieges.

The vehicle is an Armet Balkan Mk7, a tactical response vehicle that can carry up to 10 people in [...]

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VICTORIA’S GOVERNMENT has come under fire from the state opposition for ignoring the deteriorating condition of regional roads as a major contributor to the rising road toll.

Recent figures show that although the road toll is dropping throughout the state’s cities and towns, the rural road toll is on the rise, corresponding with condition reports which [...]

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VICTORIAN MOTORISTS will need to be extra vigilant from this week onwards. The Police and Victorian State Government have commenced a massive roll-out of new and upgraded speed and red light cameras across the state’s road network.

A grand total of 53 camera sites will either be established or upgraded, with 31 sites getting cameras for [...]

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VICTORIA WILL BECOME the first state in Australia to make stability control a compulsory standard feature on all new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles sold from January 2011 onwards, a move that the state government says will drastically lower the road toll.

The Victorian Government is proposing an amendment to Victoria’s road safety legislation to [...]

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Victoria Police will be keeping a close eye on pedestrians, cyclists and motocyclists in Melbourne’s CBD from tomorrow until Friday, and will be issuing on-the-spot fines to anyone caught flouting road rules.

Crossing the road against a red light will earn you a $57 fine, while riding a pushbike on the footpath will see you slugged [...]

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As a part of the post-bushfire recovery efforts in rural Victoria, Ford Australia has handed over four Ranger 4×4  XL dual-cab utes to the Country Fire Authority, which will use them to replace CFA vehicles lost in the Black Saturday blazes.

The Cragieburn and Tallangatta brigades will each receive one of the Ford Rangers, while one [...]

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Victorian Police will target speeders and hoons more aggressively, with the Victorian Government announcing yesterday in the 2009 State Budget that it will be spending an additional $22.2 million to help cut the road toll by 30 percent by 2017.

But revelations that government revenue from speeding fines is expected to pass the $500 million mark [...]

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Research published by both the Department of Transport and VicRoads has thrown water on the Victorian Government’s claim that its $6 million plan to encourage car pooling would decrease traffic on Melbourne’s roads.

VicRoads’ report, which was conducted by the Australian Road Research Board, says that although Victorian drivers like the idea of car pooling, few [...]

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