Sydney motorists have been slugged more than $5.27million in fines from unmarked speed cameras last month alone.
Fines handed out to NSW drivers have soared by 900 per cent since the removal of the Speed Camera Ahead signs that were previously required to be placed 250m before the camera.
Despite the controversial removal of warning signs, and 23,149 drivers being hit with fines in March alone, it has made virtually no impact of road fatalities.
Ninety-three people died on NSW roads so far this year, compared to 94 for the same period in 2020.
Sydney motorists have been slugged more than $5.27million in fines from unmarked speed cameras last month alone
Sydney s disastrous light rail line delivered just 10 passengers a minute in its first year after the costs to build it blew out to $3 billion.
Since the whole line opened on April 3, it has been so sparsely used that the NSW Government will be forced to subsidise it.
There were 4.45 million trips on the Randwick line and 4.55 million on the Kingsford line in the first year, a dismal 28 per cent of the predicted 31.4 million trips.
Sydney Light Rail only carried 10 passengers per operating minute for first year in operation
The NSW Government has alloted the risk of decreased fare revenue from the Sydney Light Rail to the taxpayers
âAll roads lead to Rozelleâ: Halfway mark for Sydneyâs mammoth spaghetti junction
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Tunnelling on the Rozelle Interchange - the 24-kilometre spaghetti junction twisting beneath Sydneyâs inner west - has reached its halfway point, though local residents are still facing years of disruption.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Transport Minister Andrew Constance visited the vast construction site at Rozelle on Thursday, celebrating 12 kilometres of tunnelling being completed on the almost $4 billion project.
Tunnelling on the Rozelle Interchange has reached halfway.
Credit:Wolter Peters
00:06 EDT, 8 April 2021
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Foreigners continue to drive in Australia for years without a local licence, even after committing multiple offences that would force ordinary citizens off the road.
Holders of temporary working or student visas in most states can drive on their overseas licences indefinitely, or until they become permanent residents.
The loophole means non English-speaking foreigners can drive on Australian roads without undergoing any local testing or even being able to read road signs.
The family of a father-of-three killed in a collision with a student visa holder driving on his Nigerian licence near Newcastle last year is now pushing for changes to the law.
Upgrades to inner west stations before services reroute to eastern suburbs
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Major upgrades will be carried out on two inner west train stations as the government prepares to increase capacity on the existing rail network and link commuters directly to the eastern suburbs.
St Peters and Erskineville stations will receive $40 million in upgrades, subject to planning approval, with work slated to begin later this year.
An artist’s impression of the upgraded St Peters train station.
The upgrades are expected to be completed by 2024 ahead of the Metro City and Southwest opening, and include new lifts, a commuter footbridge and a southern entrance at Erskineville station.