When i was a kid, i used to have a weird obsession with the NSW ones.
Each year they’d be a different colour, and i had a neighbour whose rego renewal was early January. So in the first few days of the New Year, I’d go over to their place and look at their car windscreen to find out what colour it would be for the new year!
They usually just put tape over it.
I had this issue when I was moving to Tasmania in 2022. Google Maps kept wanting me to go off the A1 in Victoria because it was “shorter”.
Fair enough. But there are still plenty of signs that are physically dated (mould or moss, peeling, faded, holes, chipped or complete loss of reflectivity or all of the above) or structurally compromised (bent, leaning, one pole broken or missing or half the sign is damaged) and need replacement, some large ones on metropolitan arterials too.
Coming back from Bendigo last Saturday night, for example, on the Calder Freeway inbound (well and truly within urban limits) as you cross the Western Ring Road junction, those exit signs on that gantry have lost all reflectivity and the graphics were also quite dated/faded, meaning even under high beam it was very hard at 100km/h to quickly make head or tail of them. Not to mention there’s already been a cover-up, there’s two discontinued shields and they’ve already been taken down before and put back up just on a new gantry, to the point you can see the metal frame to hold the signs on that then new gantry is too large and mis-aligned and sticks out at the tops LOL (when the Ring Road was being upgraded 10-15 years ago for overhead lane signals). In any other scenario like this, they’d 100% have just made new signs, this was laziness and cost saving at it’s worst. You can check this example on Street View.
Spotto! 🚨
— 9News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) March 30, 2024
Queensland Police's first operational Kia EV6 has finally hit the roads - joining the highway patrol fleet to help create a safer environment for drivers.
Have you spotted the yellow stinger yet? #9News pic.twitter.com/YOuMn86NSn
Yellow to match the ones driven by the drug dealers. 
I thought Victoria already had this?
No, the digital licence trial only began in Ballarat last year.
They did the trial pretty quick then. It took QLD alot longer than this…
Kia confirmed today the new ute would be called the Tasman.
You know your road rules, and now’s your chance to prove it.
— Transport and Main Roads Queensland (@TMRQld) April 15, 2024
Chilli has three children in the back seat and seated her seven year old, Bluey, in the front seat. Can Chilli get fined for this? For real life?#Bluey #TheSign
Image courtesy of ABC/Ludo Studio pic.twitter.com/UOggZeCw6h
Answer
No. Children aged 4 to 7 years can sit in the front seat if all other seats are occupied by children under 7 years old. However, we advise that children under 12 are always safest in the back seat.
— Transport and Main Roads Queensland (@TMRQld) April 16, 2024
… people mistake the turning instructions and end up on railway (or tram) tracks
Not the first time this has happened at Woy Woy.
Westconnex speed limit was raised to 90km/h this morning
The new speed limit will be displayed on the variable digital speed limit signs within the motorway.
Variable speed limits will still apply in the WestConnex tunnel network, depending on traffic conditions, and motorists should observe the posted speed limit at all times.
Councils and community groups along the length of Calder Highway in north west Victoria have called for urgent state government funding into fixing the road.
