Roads

A fortnight after two St Edmund's College students were hit by an alleged stolen car on a median strip outside their school, principal Tim Cleary says "common sense" changes like a 40kph school zone must be made.

A stretch of the Great Western Highway that cost almost $100 million per kilometre to build has opened, but some say it is completely pointless without the tunnel it was meant to service.

Anthony Albanese commits $245 million to upgrade a crumbling 62-year-old bridge at Kuranda, but some locals say only an alternative highway over the mountains will ease housing and economic pressure on Cairns.

In Queensland, more people live outside the capital city than in it. Come on a 3,000km trip into deep Katter country to see what's really behind the regional divide.

A Maserati Quattroporte luxury sedan becomes an unlikely addition to the WA Police fleet after being seized from a repeat traffic offender and turned into a road safety promotional vehicle.

Heavy haulage trucking is again thundering along a mining company's private road in WA's Pilbara after a brief halt due to safety questions, but experts and residents still have concerns.

As north Queenslanders cope with the second flood in as many months, frustrations are growing over yet another closure of the Bruce Highway. 

Community calls for a full duplication of the Sturt Highway have been backed by South Australia's peak motoring body, which says planning needs to start now for the project to be realised.

The ADF has arrived to assist with the clean-up in the Queensland town of Laidley, where residents have found themselves in an all-too-familiar situation.

Those invested in Noosa Council's "largest-ever" construction project have held their breaths as Tropical Cyclone Alfred approached.

Labor announces a $1.1 billion Western Highway upgrade, with most of the funding to go towards improving the freeway between Melton and Caroline Springs.

A rural firefighter on Western Australia's south coast says attempts to tackle a large and fast-moving bushfire were thwarted by a "completely overgrown" and "impassable" road. 

Researchers say a broadscale cut to speeds on WA roads is the simplest solution to the state's road safety issues, but politicians are not buying in.

SA Police have released more images captured by mobile detection cameras showing drivers using phones, not having any hands on the wheel and not observing due care while driving.

Footage showing a series of near misses between cars and trucks on a regional South Australian highway is being circulated online, prompting calls for drivers to take more care.

Construction works along a highway in Melbourne's outer east have been paused after residents complained trucks were being diverted onto narrow back roads, prompting safety concerns.

The key transport route through Western Australia's north will reopen to general traffic on Friday as flooding from severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia continues to drain away.

Residents say they 'fear for their lives' as heavy trucks are diverted off a major highway and onto dangerous back roads.

With billions of dollars tipped in to improve public transport in Perth, residents along the battered road between Mount Magnet and Geraldton wonder when similar upgrades will come.

The inland freight route is meant to keep Queensland open for business during disasters, but five years after the $1 billion "second Bruce" upgrade was announced no real work has been done.