{
  "id": 7429070,
  "title": "It’s official: Victoria’s potholed roads are a death trap",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/its-official-victorias-potholed-roads-are-a-death-trap",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-15T00:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/09/its-official-victorias-potholed-roads-are-a-death-trap/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In the 1990s and early 2000s, Victoria’s roads were considered the best among the eastern states, which made sense given its higher population density, as it has the nation’s second-largest population occupying a relatively small landmass. I lived in Canberra from 2003 to 2006, working at the Australian Treasury. We drove between Canberra and Melbourne The post It’s official: Victoria’s potholed…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}