Brisbane’s Story Bridge and its approaches will close for three weeks over Christmas for critical road surfacing works.
The bridge will be closed to traffic from 1am on December 27 until 5am January 18 while Brisbane City Council crews resurface the road, undertake deck maintenance and waterproofing.
Fingers crossed that there are no major trackwork in the Brisbane CBD in the same period, otherwise there will be transport and traffic chaos, especially with Brisbane International tennis and BBL taking place in the city.
The only summer closures are the classic T5 Gold Coast/T6 Beenleigh line closures as per Queensland Rail’s website at this stage
There is a couple of bus routes that stop close to Pat Rafter Area but are slower and take longer than catching a train out to the venue .As there is no public parking available near the venue tennis fans are encouraged to travel on public transport,the train station closest to the venue is unfortunately on the train line where there’s always been track work lately,the Beenleigh /Gold Coast line
Commencing from February 2027, the operation of car ferries at nine locations, six across Greater Sydney and three in regional locations, will all be brought under one roof with Transport for NSW taking responsibility.
Transport for NSW already owns the 12 ferry vessels and associated infrastructure in Sackville, Webbs Creek, Wisemans Ferry, Lower Portland, Mortlake (Putney Punt), and Berowra Waters, and across the regions in Lawrence (Bluff Point), Speewa, and Wymah.
NSW Ferries. We promise not to drown you. 
Don’t pay the ferryman, 'til you get to the other side!
OK Chris de Burgh.
No problem, FBFF in red (and blue as well this week).
Digital licences, which have been used in many parts of the country for some time now, are set to undergo a major upgrade in NSW.
Motorists in Sydney’s west and the Blue Mountains will be the first to benefit from the $11.5 million state upgrade, which will see digital identity enhancements for venues across NSW.
The technology is now in its testing stage at licensed clubs and venues, with Panthers Penrith Leagues Club among the first to roll out the upgrade with visitors.
The licence upgrade is set to deliver stronger security and smarter sharing, allowing motorists to generate a QR code to prove their age without handing over unnecessary personal information.
About 19,000 residents stretching from western Sydney to the Blue Mountains have already signed up to be ready to use the upgraded Digital Driver Licence.
Petrol retail giant Ampol has bought Evie Networks, an Australian electric vehicle charging network operated by Fast Cities for $225m.
It is anticipated the deal will be completed in the first half of next year and will result in Ampol add more than 1030 electric vehicle charging bays at over 400 sites across Australia.
It will create about 1425 EV bays at Ampol locations nationwide and is expected to become the largest public EV charging network.
I noticed my local Ampol has just installed EV charging. This is exactly what we need, especially for people who live in apartments where EV charging infrastructure can be problematic.
My predicament exactly!
A lot of apartments have installed EV Charging. My apartment recently installed 3 stations, obviously comes at a cost.
The public chargers are starting to get expensive at about 60c per kWh I live in an apartment but have a garage that has a power point so Its around 34c per kWh so just over half or I can schedule the charge between midnight and 6am for 8 cents per kWh but it will take 3 days to fully charge the car.
The total to charge my Tesla Model 3 is about $22 using public chargersand I can travel 420km on a charge so even if you use a public charger it is still considerably cheaper than petrol.
Or Yarragon in Gippsland (M1 East), Rosebud on the Peninsula (M11) or Beaufort west of Ballarat (M8). Whichever one is longer.
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I still find it unbelievable that Victoria converted their entire length of the Hume to freeway back like 30-40 years ago! If you exclude the very northern tip at Wodonga (2007), the still-to-be-fixed dangerous spot next to that pub with at-grade intersections in Kalkallo on the fringe of metro Melbourne and the Craigieburn Bypass (2005) as the Hume used to turn into Sydney Rd.
You’re right, Beaufort is a bit further than Winchelsea (by about 38 km)… I guess I picked the latter because it’s on Highway 1 (but then the Hume isn’t part of Highway 1 either).