Maribyrnong Truck Action Group

Truck count figures leaked to MTAG. The Maribyrnong Truck Action Group has learnt that VicRoads truck count figures soon to be released will reveal dramatic increases in truck numbers in the inner west especially in Footscray. The biggest increases have been recorded on Moore St Footscray, which has seen a staggering 46% increase in nighttime [...]

PRESS RELEASE TRUCK ACTION PLAN The Maribyrnong Truck Action Group welcomes the announcement of the route for the Truck Action Plan but is asking that the Brumby Government funds the project rather than relying on the Federal Government. The project will take up to 10,000 trucks a day off Somerville Rd and Francis St via [...]

MTAG acknowledges the traffic problems the State Government is attempting to solve with the proposed Westlink Tunnel under Footscray. We also acknowledge the positive commitment by the government to the Truck Action Plan Stage 1, which includes on/off ramps from the Westgate Bridge – an essential component of the overall solution to truck traffic problems [...]

PRESS RELEASE Anger is again rising in the inner west after the state government failed to fund the ‘Truck Action Plan’ to take trucks off residential streets in the inner west. The project is budgeted at $380 million in the Victorian Transport Plan and building was supposed to begin this year. Instead there is just [...]

According to The Age today, WESTLINK, a proposed six-lane freeway under Footscray and through Sunshine West, is Victoria’s ”number one priority project” for federal funding, according to a Brumby government submission on the road’s likely impacts. Quietly lodged last month with the Rudd government as a requirement of federal environment laws, the submission shows the [...]