Urgent safety warning about 6,000 Toyota Corollas just added to Takata recall. The ACCC is warning drivers of an urgent safety risk after about 6,000 Toyota Corollas were added to the existing compulsory recall for vehicles fitted with dangerous Takata
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Tenders worth $24 million in place for Scone Regional Airport works. Artist’s concept of Scone Regional Airport upgrade project. The Scone Regional Airport project will proceed, with an independent review backing the business case. The report was commissioned in response
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Post-pandemic gridlock? Public transport users expected to shift towards driving cars. Fewer people will use public transport and instead use cars, causing more congestion. These are the dire preliminary findings of a new report by the Monash Public Transport Research
Read more...Car park improvements for better access to Fassifern station. Fassifern Station carpark works in progress. Work is underway on $520,000 of improvements at the popular Fassifern station commuter car park to give better access for local commuters. Lake Macquarie Mayor
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Council will construct a temporary cycleway along Honeysuckle Drive during construction turmoil. The cycleway will connect Steel Street to Worth Place. Honeysuckle Drive facing east during final phase of construction projects in July 2020. As development continues along the harbour,
Read more...Passenger train arrivals demonstrate unique direct-to-rail capability at Port of Newcastle The first shipment of new passenger trains for the Sydney network arrived at Port of Newcastle this week, immediately taking advantage of the port’s direct connections to the New
Read more...Australian vehicle buyers increasingly choose heavier vehicles with larger and more powerful engines, against the trend in Europe and Asia. Their failure to consider best-in-class has caused nationwide vehicular emissions reductions to stall, despite design gains. Executive Leader Sustainability for
Read more...University installs new electric vehicle charging stations . Electric vehicle charging stations have been installed at the University of Newcastle’s Callaghan campus to make sustainable transport more accessible. Four dual charging stations are available, with infrastructure in place to support
Read more...Digital parking permit applications open. Newcastle residents can now apply online for digital parking permits as the City transitions to a more efficient and effective permit system. The move to digital permits means annual email and mail applications, or visits
Read more...Electric vehicles support sustainable operations at Port of Newcastle. One of four Hyandai Ioniq electric vehicles at the Wharf Road charging station. Port of Newcastle has switched to fully-electric vehicles to achieve its sustainability goals. The Port has deployed the
Read more...Two new 22-kilowatt chargers in the carpark next to Harry’s Café de Wheels are operational. They join three others outside No.2 Sportsground and another smaller charging station on Laman Street near St Andrews. Newcastle’s Deputy Lord Mayor, Declan Clausen, joined
Read more...Regional communities are getting 150 new school buses fitted with seatbelts, following recommendations of an independently chaired taskforce to improve the rural and regional seatbelt program. Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole said the new air-conditioned buses would
Read more...Motorists urged to check if they have remaining deadly Takata airbags. Nearly 200,000 vehicles fitted with potentially deadly airbags are still on the roads, and more than 8,000 of these are considered so dangerous they should not be driven at
Read more...Community invited to update cycling strategy. City of Newcastle wants residents to contribute to the 2012 Newcastle Cycling Strategy and Action Plan (NCSAP). Anyone can have their say until 14 May by completing a cycling survey at www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au before the
Read more...NSW Government will invest $6.6 million in Cessnock Airport. Council secured the funding by lodging a grant application under the NSW Government’s Growing Local Economies Fund. Cessnock City Mayor, Councillor Bob Pynsent said that the project was critical for local
Read more...Petrol retailers should not use the current pandemic to further increase profits, which the latest ACCC petrol industry report shows have risen in recent years, and should pass on the full benefit of falling oil prices to motorists, the ACCC
Read more...MidCoast Council has reopened the airport to service the twice weekly flights, which were suspended as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. FlyPelican – through the Federal Government’s Regional Network Support Program – has launched a new flight schedule, and
Read more...The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has told private and recreational pilots they must stay on the ground. Pilots should ensure they adhere to social distancing requirements and restrictions on interstate travel. CASA has sent an email to more than 30,000
Read more...Electric vehicles hit the road as Lake Mac plugs in new charging strategy Plant and Fleet Coordinator Glenn Hattander with the new Ioniq EVs. Lake Macquarie City Council has flicked the switch on a new EV charging strategy, with four
Read more...Drivers caught on camera using a mobile phone will be issued fines and demerit points from 1st March 2020. The NSW Government’s mobile phone detection cameras have been operating in warning mode since 1 December 2019, but drivers will now
Read more...By Gary Mortimer Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology Image ~ Jeremy. The jingle used to tell us we loved “football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars”. These days we love Japanese utes and small Toyotas,
Read more...Point-to-point transport survey results. Rideshare services in NSW in 2019 grew compared to 2018, but the growth in rideshare use appears to be levelling off. Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) Chair Dr Paul Paterson said the first survey in
Read more...Wisk and New Zealand Government to Partner in World’s First Autonomous Air Taxi Trial. The New Zealand Government and Wisk, an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) company, have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a passenger transport trial in
Read more...The number of parking transactions declined by seven per cent to 916,704 in the second half of 2019, down from 983,392 in the final six months of 2018. This resulted in a decrease of $335,000 parking revenue, according to City
Read more...Community views sought on future public transport fares. The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is seeking community views about future Opal fares for public transport in Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, the Hunter and the Illawarra. IPART is
Read more...Note: The ninth paragraph of this media release was amended on 10 January 2020 to clarify details of Toyota’s buy-back and alternative transport offer. Toyota, Mazda and Suzuki have today issued voluntary recalls of more than 18,000 vehicles manufactured between
Read more...New passenger rail services start today – Sunday, 5 January 2020 – between Singleton and the Newcastle Interchange. Mayor of Singleton, Cr Sue Moore encourages commuters at both ends to take advantage of more options to travel from one end
Read more...Minister for Regional Transport and Roads, Paul Toole, announced in October 2019 that two new direct train services would operate between Singleton and Newcastle seven days a week. Our community has worked incredibly hard for the introduction of these services,
Read more...Mobile phone detection cameras are operational. Drivers caught using a mobile phone will face penalties. The penalty for offending drivers is five demerit points and a $344 fine ($457 in a school zone). The penalty will increase to 10 demerit
Read more...Greater choice for Opal passengers – draft report. The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is proposing a range of new options for passengers to tailor public transport fares to better meet their travel patterns and budgets. Draft recommendations released
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