Motorists in cars will be slugged up to $16.78 a day for using the new West Gate Tunnel when it opens this year.

A 112-metre section of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne weighing up to 2,000-tonnes collapsed into the Yarra River during construction on October 15, 1970, killing 35 construction workers.

The Allan Labor Government's West Gate Tunnel will slash travel times by up to 20 minutes and take trucks off local roads - and it's on track to open ...

West Gate Bridge taken from Middle Park at sunset, 2007. Credit: Rebecca Hallas. Once construction is complete one man and a computer will control the bridge's operations.

Melbourne's West Gate Bridge collapsed 50 years ago, leaving 35 men dead and more than a dozen injured in what is Australia's worst construction accident. The men who survived the accident have ...

The West Gate Bridge, with all its promised glory, had been under construction for some two years by that stage. A proposed grand gateway, it was to connect the west with the east; ...

Fifty years on from the deadly West Gate Bridge collapse, a leading engineering expert sounds a warning about future tragedies because of old structures coming to the end of their design life.

Tommy Watson remembers the West Gate bridge collapse 50 years on. Credit: Jason South On October 15, 1970, Watson was a young, 23-year old rigger working the job of a lifetime building the iconic ...

Melbourne’s West Gate Bridge collapse left scene of carnage and 35 dead in 1970 horror. PICTURE SPECIAL: It was a scene of carnage when part of the West Gate Bridge collapsed during construction ...