The City of Perth has announced temporary road closures in Northbridge to facilitate New Year’s Eve celebrations.

William, James, Lake and Roe streets will be closed between 4.00pm, Friday 31 December 2021 and 5.00am, Saturday 1 January 2022, as shown on the map below.

Active towing will begin from 3.00pm, Friday 31 December 2021, with associated costs to be paid by the vehicle owner prior to the release of the impounded vehicle.

​A dedicated on-demand transport rank will be located on Melbourne Street. The Melbourne Street taxi rank will be a one-way loop with the southbound lane closed as part of the Roe Street Development road closures and construction works.

The NSW Government is committed to helping private businesses, not-for-profits, and local councils bridge the cost to transition their fleets to electric passenger, light commercial or sports utility vehicles. NSW Government will invest $105 million via a competitive reverse tender auction process to assist this transition.
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NSW Government has launched the Drive electric NSW EV fleets incentive, helping private businesses, not-for-profits, and local councils across the state 
accelerate their transition to EVs at a lesser cost while lowering state transport emissions.

An ex-servicemen says he has suffered severe clinical depression after being repeatedly refused Uber lifts because of his assistant dog, Nomi. 

Rick Boreham said it happened six times this year, and that each time it left him feeling despised and worthless.

The first time he was rejected by an Uber driver was on Anzac Day this year, leaving him unable to leave his home for long stretches due to the mental anguish.

​It happened twice on Monday, and on Thursday he was admitted to hospital for his mental health problems.

Being awake for 17 hours can have a similar effect on your driving performance as a blood alcohol content of 0.05.

Fatigue is not just extreme exhaustion, but includes everyday mental or physical tiredness that affect a person’s ability to function.

​Fatigue reduces attentiveness and alertness to dangers, slows reaction times and can lead to microsleeps.

Tiredness can occur on any drive - no matter how long or short, or the time of day.

​Driving at night is when you are most at risk of tiredness, as well as after lunch and early in the morning.

Uber has Melbourne Airport in their bed, as they have colluded to kick taxis from their own home. Melbourne Airport has sanctioned this rideshare giant the upper hand, as they will now have priority over taxis by surmounting the taxi rank in front of Terminal 2 and some of Terminal 4.

Taxis will be left to go to mainly Terminal 1. This innate decision will ultimately make it harder for those with a disability to travel to their destination by coercing them to navigate a maze of obstacles to reach wheelchair accessible vehicles.

Article by Dom Tripolone sourced via Herald Sun​

Electric cars are advancing at blinding speeds, and this new unit shows just how far they’ve come.

Chinese firm Nio has revealed its new ET5 electric sedan and claims it has a driving range of about 1000km.

The Tesla Model S has a driving range of more than 650km and is currently one of the best performing electric cars on sale.

The Model 3 rivalling ET5 will initially be sold in China before being launched in Europe. 

A taxi driver was assaulted at a North Rockhampton Shopping Centre on Sunday afternoon by a group of juveniles who were in a stolen vehicle.

​A stolen station wagon reversed into a taxi at Northside Plaza around 11.15am. When the taxi driver got out, he was assaulted by one of three juveniles. The group then fled the scene on foot.

A 14 year-old boy and a 15 year-old boy were later charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and burglary offences.

Melbourne Airport is changing where arrival passengers can locate taxi and rideshare services. And disabled passengers will suffer the greatest - as they will be forced into an obstacle course merely to reach their wheelchair accessible taxi.

Taxi services account for 70% of all trips out of Melbourne Airport yet the Airport is making an Uber rank front and centre as passengers leave the terminals and thereby pushing taxi services hundreds of metres away at terminal 1 and upstairs at terminal 4.

This appears to be a secretive commercial arrangement between Uber and Melbourne Airport.

No disability groups were consulted prior to this decision being made.

Emissions from road transport account for 10 per cent of global emissions – and that number is rising faster than any other sector, as highlighted in the latest Global EV Outlook report. 

Developed nations around the world, including the United Kingdom and Canada, have already pledged to phase out sales or registrations of new internal combustion engine cars by a certain date - but Australia has not. Nowhere near the finish line. 

Despite being one of the world’s leaders in renewable energy research and innovation, Australia’s vehicle emission standard is still based on the European Emission Standard five, which is now over a decade old. More than 80 per cent of the global car market now follows 'Euro Six' vehicle emission standards, including Europe, the United States, Japan, Korea, China, India and Mexico.