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Melbourne's $2.5 billion East Link will open to traffic five months early, on June 29....

Connex is spending $10 million on an improvement plan for Melbourne's rail network....

A Supreme Court jury has found a man guilty of the stabbing murder of a Healesville musician on a Belgrave train two years ago....

The cost of upgrades to the Monash Freeway, Citylink and West Gate Freeway have blown out by $390 million dollars....

The Victorian Government has revealed there has been a $400-million cost blow-out in the upgrade of the West Gate Freeway....

Melbourne taxi drivers have ended their blockade after winning key concessions from the Victorian Government....

Taxi drivers are blockading a major intersection in central Melbourne after a fellow cabbie was stabbed earlier today....

The Victorian Coalition says the State Government is expanding clearway operating hours, because it has failed to plan for increasing traffic congestion....

The State Government is extending clearway times throughout Melbourne to try to reduce traffic congestion....

The Victorian Opposition says the Government is planning to stop train services to Victoria's north east for the next two years....

Victoria's train and tram operators have been penalised $15-million for poor performance in the final three months of last year....

The Victorian Government will lower speed limits at approaches to 72 level crossings around Victoria....

Qantas has denied claims of a security threat on a flight from Adelaide to Melbourne on Friday night....

The Victorian Government will introduce two hundred new train services to the city's overcrowded public transport system....

Starting today until Tuesday, Flinders Street will be closed including the super tram stop outside Federation Square....Read Full article

Use Twitter? Use Connex? You'll like the Melbourne Transport Updates feed, via the Twitter user MelbTransport.

Seems a bit like a duplication of the service that Connex themselves offer, but who says you like their SMSes - maybe you only want to be pinged via IM (like I do), and this is where Twitter comes in a lot handier....Read Full article

Licenses to run Melbourne's train and tram services are up for renewal, and the newly appointed Premier (Brumby) has announced that the existing contracts will not be rolled over. Everything's going up in the air, presumably to the highest bidder (though i hope they actually use better criteria than that...).

I have to say, bad news for one of Melbourne's train operators, Connex, always brings a little smile to my face. They're the ones controlling most of the eastern suburb train services, and they're the public transport company (does that sound like a contradiction in terms to anybody else?) i've had the most contact with. My Connex-whinge basically revolves around their contempt for the public, which is the main reason i think they should be kicked out....Read Full article

It's that time again when public transport fares go up. Originally, prices were set to go up last November but were pushed forward to March of this year. After all the train delays, the fare increase was pushed forward another 3 months....Read Full article