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We will soon be able to water our gardens at any time and wash their cars at home for the first time in four years.

Victorian drivers who repeatedly break the speed limit could have speed-limiting technology installed in their cars.

Revheads riot, trash Bob Jane store The Age … breaking windows and stealing car parts from inside, witnesses and bystanders were forced to take shelter in their cars and nearby restaurants . ..

Repeat hoon drivers face having their cars crushed whoever wins this year’s Victorian election, as the Opposition and State Government trade blows over who has the toughest anti-hoon policy.

The Victorian Government will move to crush the cars of repeat hoon offenders in the wake of last weekend’s tragic fatality in which five young people died.

City drivers will pay $1 million each year to get their cars back after they are towed away as a result of Melbourne’s new clearway times, VicRoads estimates.

Police in the north east of the state will be at the Milawa Primary School to promote the annual Ann Brimblecombe award, CARS competition, in Milawa this Tuesday.

A PROPOSAL to remove all cars and bicycles from Swanston St will be put to Melbourne City Council this month. The option to make Swanston St a purely pedestrian and tram strip will be added to six options released to council on the future of what Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said was Melbourne’s “main artery”.

Most Melbourne City councillors told The Age they will not support Mr Doyle’s pledge to reopen Swanston Street to cars.   “Even my children are telling me it’s a stupid idea,” said newly elected councillor Ken Ong. And in a move that would buck the worldwide trend to make cities more friendly to pedestrians, bicyclists and public transport users, Mr Doyle called for cheap parking on the city’s fringes, and removal of tram “super stops”.

“Badly talented” buskers face being banned from the CBD as part of a bid by Melbourne’s new lord mayor to clean up the city streets. Hours after his election win, Robert Doyle said tougher rules and regulations were needed to keep the streets free of bad performers. Mr Doyle also touted a Bourke Street police station and a theme park to attract more families to the CBD at night. Mr Doyle said he expected a battle on his hands with his controversial plan to re-open Swanston Street to traffic.so that we can still have pedestrians, cyclists and have cars actually moving through it,” he said.”I was in Swanston Street and it was a taxi rank. theage.com.au Mr Doyle on Melbourne