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  The reporting on this by the ABC is weird. "Teen" is clearly used here to imply that this was an abnormal situation as the driver wasn't an adult. But if you read the article you find out that the driver was a normal licensed eighteen year old driving his own car with two friends in the car. He ran his car in to a crowd of people on the footpath injuring ten people. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-03/teen-charged-for-alleged-crashing-into-crowd/107225432

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  GrapheneOS is nice enough to tell me when it's changed the clock for daylight savings. I don't remember stock Android ever doing that.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/117380688377980007 A half empty bus is 100m of cars stopped in traffic or 2km of cars on a freeway.

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  OH: "If Labor and Liberals got together they could wipe out the Greens" I had to restrain myself not to run after these people and tell them that Labor and the Liberals are together. They agree on most things and regularly vote together. They proudly uphold capitalism together. #auspol

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  This hook turn box (on Elizabeth St and Collins St) is in the wrong location making it dangerous. The proper location to make a hook turn from is where you are blocking the waiting traffic. You need to be there so that traffic can't start moving before you complete your turn. I just saw a great example of why this design is dangerous. A cyclist started in to the intersection on a green light, the hook turner was clearly a bit distracted and hadn't completed their turn yet. They...

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  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117292152041410285 Kids also need mobility on their own to get between these places. If they have to negotiate around the schedule of a tired parent to take them to and from a place they're more likely to just not go.

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  Bicycle Network is running a campaign to get 5% of the Victorian transport budget to be allocated to building out the Strategic Cycling Corridors. All the bicycle user groups are involved and we're trying to get as many people as we can to contact their MP in the next month and ask for this. We're going to need hundreds of people in every electorate to do this to get anything to change. Follow this link to find your electorate and the Strategic Cycling Corridors in your area and email...

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  RE: https://aus.social/@kattekrab/116861965032683503 One of the less recognised pollution related to cars is light pollution. Cars require a lot of street lighting that is on all night and the urban sprawl that cars encourage means there needs to be a lot more area with bright street lights. Large LED billboards are only there to advertise to people driving past at high speed in cars at night. #CarsRuinCities

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  Have you emailed your MP to request 5% of the transport budget be allocated to building the Strategic Cycling Corridors? Do it now. https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/our-advocacy/strategic-cycling-corridor/ #SpringSt #Bicycles #melbourne

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  Governments always telling consumers not to stockpile toilet paper, hand sanitiser, or petrol but never telling capitalists not to stockpile housing. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/japan-consumers-panic-buying-toilet-paper/106490370

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  It would be funny if it wasn't going to result in large numbers of people dying. Australia has the wealth to buy oil at any price. We'll be still using tax payer money to subsidise Ford Ranger drivers so they can keep driving even at $5/L. But people in places with less wealth are going to have economic collapse and famine.

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  On my way to the State Library for the rally against the cuts to the NDIS. #Melbourne #NdisUnderattack #Auspol

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  This is fucked. No wonder we haven't recovered from the pandemic, we're still in lockdown.

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  A 71yr old women was hit-and-run while crossing Sydney Rd (near Barkly St) yesterday. Police are yet to locate the driver but have CCTV footage of them. Sydney Rd is a major shopping street where people need to access shops on both sides of the street. This women was crossing 100m from the nearest southern pedestrian crossing and 150m from the nearest northern crossing. Sydney Rd is busy and difficult to cross because there is no space in the middle to safely wait. When I cross I wait a long...

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  Crewing the Merri-bek BUG table at Glenroy Festival. #Melbourne #bicycles #GlenroyFestival #Glenroy

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  A kid asking on /r/melbourne about how to use a train station. I wonder how many people don't use public transport simply because nobody showed them how to use it as a kid, then they started driving, and they never felt comfortable asking later in life. https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1t342pr/how_do_i_use_a_train_station/

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  Merri-bek council is offering a $500 subsidy for new or refurbished e-bikes starting tomorrow (4th May). "$500 off the purchase price of a new or refurbished bike, or 50% off a weekly subscription for 3-months (up to value of $500)." It's only available from 2 specific stores and a limited range of bicycles. The cheapest new bike under the scheme is the Veloomi Daily at $2199 #merribek #brunswick #coburg #Fawkner #glenroy #bicycles #melbourne https://zerocarbonmerr...

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  I only recently found out that the 2020 covid pop-up bike lane project was only $13 million for 100km of bicycle infrastructure. Only $130K per km. For comparison this is about the same cost as 4 train stations car spaces for every km of bike lane (from the $610m Car Parks for Commuters program that delivered 21,000 car parks at train stations again Melbourne). You could built 2km of bicycle infrastructure to get people to a train station and if 8 people used it then you're already ahe...

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  "The car registration rebate is expected to cost the government about $750 million in foregone revenue." They could build most of the Strategic Cycling Corridors for that. Or upgrade 70% of the remaining inaccessible tram stops to be accessible tram stops. There is always enough money when they want to do something. #Melbourne #SpringSt https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-26/victoria-offers-20pc-car-rego-discount-in-cost-of-living-measure/106606656

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@jakecoppinger/116451524496694359 We should be rolling out lots of quick build popup protected bike lanes again. Every primary school child is within a short bicycle ride of their school, most secondary school kids are too. A huge number of people are within a short bike ride of a train station, even in the outer new developments. Quick build bike lanes are stupidly cheap to build and even cheaper if they're provided via quick build modal filters on local...

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  "Public transport free for another month, then half-price until 2027" A better cost-of-living policy would be expanding public transport so more people can use it and more people can make permanent choices that reduce their transport costs over the longer term. The major cost of a car is in the having of the car; it's insurance, registration, depreciation, maintenance, garage etc. Enabling a family to go from having two cars to only 1 car is a huge long term differen...

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  "Shadow Energy Minister Dan Tehan has seized on warnings about potential blackouts, arguing that it is an example of how the energy "transition is failing"" The Liberal party spent a decade delaying the energy transition, pushing up energy prices and creating difficult to solve problems that we now have to deal with. #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/energy-grid-not-ready-eraring-coal-aemo/106085200 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/fede...

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  Macaulay Rd protected bike lanes from Boundary Rd to Langford St now exist. It's only one block but it looks like a good start. It's great to see this project finally get to construction after years of delays by DTP. #melbourne #NorthMelbourne #Bicycles #ProtectedBikeLanes

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  "Advocacy sounds noble, but in reality it’s just doing someone else’s job for free. " Hayden from Streets Alive Glen Eira on the Advocacy to Burnout Pipeline. https://highcapacityhayden.substack.com/p/i-give-up-on-making-our-streets-better?r=3p6njp

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  Bike Rave is a moving rave around the CBD on bicycles with music and costumes. May 2nd , 4pm Start Birrarung Marr, Naarm/Melbourne Theme is Deluxe Disco. #Melbourne #BikeRave

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  I'm currently looking for work. I've been a software developer for 14yrs mainly working in small start-ups that make a webapp product (Ruby, Typescript, React) where I wear a lot of hats (support, devops, development, mentoring, and telling you that all the problems you're having is because your microservice architecture is over-engineered and insecure). I'd like to work on something actually useful to people and I'd be less concerned about what I&#39...

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  Teacher's strike. What do we think about putting the premier on a teachers wage? #AEUStrike #TeachersStrike #SpringSt #JoinYourUnion

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  It's like DashCamsAustralia...but if it was all happening to just one guy. #bicycles #Geelong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsVfaLoUNrc

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  That's some bullshit. It's worrying for people to be convicted of hate speech for hate speech that might have been happening in the head of someone else that isn't paying attention to what you're actually saying. It's the reverse dog whistle. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-26/former-burgertory-owner-found-to-have-incited-racial-hate/106393920