Melbourne & Victoria Traffic Archives

Optus outage causes commuter chaos as cost for an Uber surges before price cap implemented

UPDATE: Customers are reporting some services are coming back online. Read more here. EARLIER: A widespread Optus outage has caused commuter chaos, with Uber prices temporarily surging across Australia before …

Farmers rumble through Melbourne’s CBD to protest VNI West and Western Renewables Link projects

by Vera Ward

Fired-up farmers have rumbled into Melbourne to take their fight against two contentious transmission projects to the front steps of Victorian parliament. The “stop the towers” protest was planned for …