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Some Brisbane roads slowed to less than 25km/h in peak times in December 2025.

On these Brisbane roads, riding a scooter would be faster than driving

When peak hour hits, these Brisbane roads grind to a crawl. See how your commute has changed since 2019.

  • Felicity Caldwell

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A truck carrying an excavator becomes stuck under a railway bridge over the City Link near Church Street in Cremorne on Wednesday afternoon.

Truck carrying excavator hits two Melbourne overpasses within hours

A truck driver’s repeated failures to clear two Melbourne bridges led to delays on four of the city’s train lines.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Jaime Petersen says she avoids catching the train if she sees delays anywhere on the network after getting caught up in May’s commuter chaos.

‘They can barely handle the everyday rush’: The charts showing how your Sydney train line performs

Sydney’s train network has failed to meet its own punctuality targets for large stretches of the past eight years. Here’s how your line stacks up.

  • Angus Thomson and Nigel Gladstone
Passengers board a train at Parramatta station during the evening peak on Tuesday.

Scathing review slams Sydney’s train network failures and a ‘lack of care’

There was “no defensible reason” why it took so long to get passengers off a stranded train.

  • Matt O'Sullivan and Jessica McSweeney
A train carriage is removed from the tracks after derailing in Clifton Hill.

Major commuter train lines to resume but derailment cause still unknown

Mernda and Hurstbridge services will resume fully on Monday morning after more than 100,000 commuters were forced to resort to travel alternatives after a train derailed last Sunday.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
Emergency services attend to a patient with back injuries after a head-on collision on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Traffic chaos after head-on collision on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Heavy traffic backed up for kilometres from the Sydney Harbour Bridge after a head-on collision closed several lanes during peak hour traffic.

  • Josefine Ganko
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Something wasn’t right, but I had absolutely no idea what it was.

My car kept making a thucka-thucka noise, but no one else could hear it

“What kind of noise?” Glen, the mechanic, asked me. “Like a hollow aluminium chain being dragged across a swamp,” I said. Glen did not reply.

  • Nicola Redhouse
After two hours in traffic, anyone who acts on the urge to late merge should be sent to prison.

‘The right lane is faster’, and other thoughts I don’t appreciate in a traffic jam

When early morning road congestion turns a 20-minute drive into two hours of pain, you’re only ever one late merge away from a mental breakdown.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Commuters wait at a Sydney train station.

Why doesn’t my boss agree that commuting is a waste of time?

For too long, the time and cost associated with lengthy commutes was waved away as a necessary evil. That era is over.

  • Jonathan Rivett
Women are more likely to support work from home provisions.

Why where you work is the new political battleground

One-third of us work from home at least some of the time. That’s a big clue as to why Labor is talking about it so much.

  • Shane Wright