Every day hundreds of items including phones, bikes, toys, glasses, household appliances and even prosthetic limbs are left on Sydney trains. The forgotten goods amount to about 50,000 lost property items each year. Tens of thousands of the forgotten items will this year be donated to charity and passed on to families in need. Know … Read more
Rideshare drivers are bypassing compulsory offline periods and driving more than 12 hours a shift, putting themselves and the community at risk. The alarming claims were made by two drivers who told 7NEWS.com.au they knew of people driving while extremely fatigued. Companies such as Uber and Didi have mandatory eight-hour offline periods that kick in … Read more
Australia can’t rely entirely on electric vehicles to reduce transport emissions to safe levels and governments must pursue other ways to cut pollution from the sector. Monash University’s Climateworks Centre made the finding in modelling released on Tuesday showing electric vehicles, both big and small, would need to make up 73 per cent of all … Read more
A taxi-company owner has been arrested over allegations that he ran a $2.2 million Sydney e-tag scam that involved using dodgy credit cards to fund the devices. The 37-year-old man has been charged with 204 fraud-related offences, while two drivers were also picked up and hit with a combined 67 fraud offences. The trio, arrested … Read more
New South Wales is riddled with toll roads and, for motorists driving long distances to work each day, the price of saving time can add up — that’s why the state government announced a $60 toll cap scheme late last year Motorists can now claim their share of the $46 million they’ve racked up over … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of people will attend concerts for Taylor Swift and Blink-182, and a Mardi Gras party at Bondi in Sydney over the coming days. But major traffic works have also been planned for the biggest entertainment weekend in the city this year. Four lanes on the Sydney Harbour Bridge will shut down just … Read more
Australia’s electric car drivers will be offered the chance to fill up their vehicles for less than $5 as part of a trial by the nation’s biggest energy retailer. Origin Energy has revealed plans to launch its EV Power Up trial next month as part of a larger plan to manage demand on its network … Read more
