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Road to famed Queensland dinosaur attraction named after 'Butch' Lenton
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Long-serving Winton Shire Councillor and Mayor Graham 'Butch' Lenton has been honoured posthumously at the opening of a road in Winton.
Topics: community-development, rural, community-and-society, industry, road-transport, transport, tourism, travel-and-tourism, rural-tourism, winton-4735
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Drivers horrified as melting bitumen captures cars like 'insects in a spider's web'
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Drivers will be compensated after their vehicles were caught "sinking" into a melting far north Queensland road, destroying their tyres and leaving them with hefty repair bills.
Topics: road, transport, human-interest, tablelands-4680, qld, australia, brisbane-4000
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Sydney's light rail barricades to remain in place until at least November (photos)
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Sydneysiders will still have to wait several months until the barricades surrounding the CBD light rail are removed, with fencing to remain in front of some retailers along Sydney's George Street over the Christmas period.
Topics: transport, construction-projects-and-equipment, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, surry-hills-2010, randwick-2031
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Western Sydney Airport construction to start this year, but flight paths still unknown
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Bulldozers will hit the Western Sydney Airport site by the end of the year, the Federal Government says, triggering the physical and symbolic start of Sydney's long-awaited second airport site.
Topics: air-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, transport, sydney-2000, sydney-airport-2020, sydney-international-airport-2020, nsw
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Westfield Carousel moves quickly on plan to charge shoppers for parking (photos)
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WA's soon-to-be biggest shopping centre will introduce paid parking for the first time next month, electing to start charging customers and staff before its $350m redevelopment is opened to the public.
Topics: retail, business-economics-and-finance, transport, cannington-6107, wa, perth-6000
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With DiDi entering the fight for Australian rideshare customers, casualties loom Opinion
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Chinese ridesharing platform DiDi has launched in Australia, a market in which Shofer, Taxify, GoCatch, Shebah, Uber and Ola are already fighting for supremacy. If governments step in, this might be a war that consumers, workers and the community can still win.
Topics: road-transport, transport, australia
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Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, road-transport, transport, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, people, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, road-transport, transport, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, people, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, road-transport, transport, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, people, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, road-transport, transport, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, people, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, road-transport, transport, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, people, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, road-transport, transport, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, people, castlemaine-3450
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Container deposit scheme up high on wish list of roadside rubbish collector
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A Victorian volunteer rubbish collector says that a container deposit scheme is the only way to keep recyclable items of the state's roads.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, road-transport, transport, environment, recycling-and-waste-management, people, castlemaine-3450
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At 30kph, this will be the fastest driverless vehicle to hit Australia's roads
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While the driverless Flinders Express bus may be express by name, in practice it will only reach top speeds of 30 kilometres per hour and will have a console operator ready to take control if things go awry.
Topics: industry, transport, automotive, university-and-further-education, education, sa, adelaide-5000, flinders-university-5042
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Sydney biohacker who implanted Opal Card into hand escapes conviction
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A biohacker who was fined for implanting an Opal Card chip into his hand has his conviction overturned, with the judge describing his case as a "unique set of circumstances".
Topics: transport, biotechnology, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, nsw
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Canberra light rail misses milestone targets by months
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Despite all but one of the major targets for Canberra's light rail being missed, the ACT Government is still adamant it will be up and running at some point this year.
Topics: transport, rail-transport, local-government, canberra-2600, act
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Sydney's Opal fares are going up next month
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The cost of tapping on and off Sydney's public transport system will jump by 2.2 per cent next month, but the New South Wales Government has rejected larger Opal fare hikes recommended by the pricing regulator.
Topics: transport, government-and-politics, state-parliament, sydney-2000, nsw
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Bargain basement trains show you get what you pay for Analysis
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A new fleet of inter-city trains that the NSW Government ordered from South Korea will not fit the tracks in the Blue Mountains, prompting concerns of a major cost blowout to fix the problem.
Topics: rail-transport, business-economics-and-finance, transport, state-parliament, springwood-2777, sydney-2000, nsw
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Car drives in reverse on highway in US state of Ohio Video
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Traffic cameras have caught a driver reversing their car out of a line of traffic on a busy highway and continuing backwards down two more roads before pulling into a parking lot in the US state of Ohio.
Topics: transport, driver-education, united-states
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Sydney Harbour Bridge disappears under fog, flights and ferries cancelled Video
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge has all but disappeared this morning as a thick blanket of fog swallows the Harbour City causing flight and ferry disruptions.
Topics: transport, weather, phenomena, sydney-2000
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Sydney Harbour Bridge disappears under fog, flights and ferries cancelled Video
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge has all but disappeared this morning as a thick blanket of fog swallows the Harbour City causing flight and ferry disruptions.
Topics: phenomena, transport, road-transport, sydney-2000
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Fast rail the key to 'mega' Sydney, report says
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A fast train network connecting greater Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle as a "mega region" could create more than 10,000 new jobs, according to a new report.
Topics: community-and-society, population-and-demographics, transport, sydney-2000, newcastle-2300, wollongong-2500, gosford-2250
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The challenges of keeping the masses moving up, down and across Opinion
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Cities are expanding upwards and downwards, as well as outwards. With urban density also increasing, moving people efficiently around the city using often-ageing infrastructure is quite a challenge, write Andrea Connor and Donald McNeill.
Topics: transport, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, australia
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Singapore Airlines (re)launches world's longest flight
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At almost 19 hours long, Singapore Airlines aims to begin the world's longest flight in October, taking passengers from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey.
Topics: air-transport, industry, transport, business-economics-and-finance, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, singapore, united-states
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Split down the middle, the town paralysed by roadworks
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A town on Queensland's Darling Downs has been split in two by major roadworks, and business owners are fighting for compensation.
Topics: road-transport, transport, regional-development, regional, small-business, state-parliament, dalby-4405, qld, toowoomba-4350, bell-4408, cecil-plains-4407
