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53% of employees prefer to train with video games
Games and game-like elements have been used to help train human minds throughout history. Sports ‘games’ were created to get people to train and keep fit, board games like chess were made to educate soldiers on war strategies, and card games were used to help teach math.
Learning to game
As technology became more advanced, video games picked up this mantle. Turtle Academy released one of the first real educational games called Logo Programming back in 1967 to teach people how to program.
A screenshot from Logo Programming by Turtle Academy
Truck and train collide at level crossing Share
A TRUCK driver and train passengers escaped major injuries after a collision at the Lochiel Avenue level crossing last week.
On 7 May, a truck was hit at the Edithvale crossing. The tray of the truck was dislodged and pushed into the boom gates.
Edithvale CFA, Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria, Metro Trains Melbourne, and staff from the Level Crossing Removal Project attended to safely remove all the passengers from the train.
A statement on the Edithvale CFA Facebook page read that “on arrival, we were able to ascertain no one was trapped and that there were no major injuries to the occupants of the truck or passengers on board the train.”
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Work to remove two notorious level crossings in Brimbank will begin this year.
The state government this afternoon announced it had awarded a $234 million contract to remove the much-maligned crossings at Fitzgerald Road in Ardeer and Deer Park’s Robinsons Road to an alliance of Fulton Hogan, Metro Trains Melbourne and the Level Crossing Removal Project.
The removal of the crossings is being fast tracked, with work expected to be completed in 2023.
According to the state government, the removal of the crossings will create 400 full-time jobs at peak construction.
The level crossings have been the subject of community concern and have a questionable safety record with 18 near misses since 2012, according to figures provided by the state government.
By Gabriella Payne
Thousands of residents in Melbourne’s south eastern suburbs can expect faster and safer commuter journeys in the not-too-distant future, as the Victorian government is set to award a contract to remove the Hallam Road level crossing and build a new, upgraded Hallam station.
Each morning, the boom gates at the hazardous Hallam Road level crossing are down for almost a third of the two-hour morning peak period, delaying approximately 20,000 vehicles each day.
On top of that, there have been 14 near-miss collisions at the crossing over the past 10 years.
The proposed changes will see a rail bridge built in place of the level crossing, allowing traffic to continue to flow under the busy train line, improving safety and congestion for both vehicles and pedestrians.