Promising development for electric vehicles (and possibly air travel as well).
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The new digital driving licence will begin with a trial in Ballarat this July.
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Ballarat drivers can sign up to the digital licence from next month via Service Victoria or VicRoads websites.
the ballarat courier
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To the arsehat who left their spiky nails on Richmond Rd this afternoon, causing me to blow out TWO tyres, go f**k yourself.
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A pet peeve of mine, first world problems i know.
Driving up to Port Macquarie, the mile marker sign just past the Great Lakes turn off north of Bulahdelah says 693 km to Brisbane.
46 km up the highway just past the Failford Rd turn off to Forster/ Tuncurry, the indicated distance to Brisbane is 708 km!
And neither is correct! Google Maps says 668 and 622 km to Brisbane respectively⌠How the 2nd sign is out by 86 km is beyond me - no amount of new bypasses can explain that.
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Distances on the previous alignment from before the upgrades perhaps?
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Yes, but there hasnât been 86 kms worth of alignments. The bypasses of Grafton and Murwillumbah would shave a few kms off but not that many
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Yes probably not 86km worth. I read the Grafton bypass shaved 13km off. When you added it all up it might be 40 - 50km?
Iâve noticed over the years of the Pacific Hwy upgrade the distance to Sydney sign at the start of the Pacific Mwy in inner Brisbane keeps dropping. They just cover it up with the new distance. I reckon itâs dropped about 80km easily.
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Finally saw some construction on the Coffs Harbour bypass when passing through today (at the northern end).
At the southern end, there was a road sign advising of the completion date⌠Late 2027! So still 4.5 years away! (at least).
Even then, itâll be finished before they even start on the Hexham bypass near Newcastle⌠the earliest that will apparently start is 2028⌠so itâll be close to another 10 years (probably longer) before Sydney to Brisbane is a non stop route.
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Wonât it be Sydney to Melbourne?
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Sydney to Melbourne is already non stop via the Hume.
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By extension it will be Brisbane to Melbourne too
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Sorry I meant Brisbane to Melbourne. After the bypass/extension opens.
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Actually Gympie to Geelong? Or whatever the first stop is after the Geelong bypass 
Itâs non stop freeway from Gympie through Brisbane to the NSW border. Once the Gympie and Tiaro bypasses are done itâll be Childers in QLD as the first stop north of Coffs Harbour.
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I recall reading once that there was a âplanâ to make Cairns to Adelaide (via the Hume) freeway all the way, but I know Iâll never see that.
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Yes, Iâm pretty sure that was a Whitlam government policy, to create an inland 4 lane highway.
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Some traffic lights just as youâre leaving Winchelsea seems to be the current extent, canât imagine traffic will ever justify that to be bypassed.
Depending on how flexible you want to be - the moving of the Spirit of Tasmania to Geelong means that you can get to Tasmania without a âtraffic lightâ - every intersection between the freeway and the terminal is a roundabout or one where the other road has a give way. You do hit one traffic light on the road from the terminal before getting to the Bass Hwy on the other end though, otherwise I think you could make it to the outskirts of Hobart.
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Good idea
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