Maribyrnong Truck Action Group

BIGGER trucks to rumble down residential streets in Yarraville? No way! SIGN THE PETITION NOW! Do you think Francis Street in Yarraville can safely accommodate trucks that are 36.5 metre long (8 Toyota Corollas or 20 bicycles) and weigh 68.5 tonnes? We understand that the freight industry has made an application to State Government to [...]

Yesterday the Napthine government officially scrapped the Truck Action Plan, a truck bypass that would have removed over 1 million trucks every year from residential streets in the inner west. The VicRoads project was fully planned and shovel ready. This short sighted decision is bad for truckies, bad for the freight industry and disastrous for [...]

MCC submission on air quality PDF This is an excellent summary of the issues we face and contains strong, sensible recommendations. Hats off to MCC! Recommendations That the Federal Government: 1. Supports the construction of alternative truck routes (on/off ramps) to and from the Westgate Freeway, in order to remove trucks from residential streets. 2. [...]

Radio National’s Background Briefing has just done a radio documentary on diesel exhaust and its health implications. The program starts in Yarraville covering the truck issue here in the inner west and then travels to Western Australia to look at diesel in our mining industry. Experts from around the world are interviewed, speaking about the [...]

The rescheduled Deliver Us From Diesel Truck Protest is on 19 March 8:00am We will be blocking Shepherd’s Bridge (where Footscray Rd crosses the Maribyrnong River) from 8:00 – 8:30am SHARP! We’re holding this protest to send a clear message to the Ballieu government that we need a Truck Bypass now because: • Diesel exhaust [...]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that diesel exhaust causes lung cancer. Back in 1988 they had said that diesel exhaust was a “probable carcinogenic”. In their new report they say: “The scientific evidence was compelling and the working group’s conclusion was unanimous: Diesel engine exhaust causes lung cancer in humans,” Christopher Portier, chairman [...]

After much lobbying and discussions with MTAG, the EPA commenced air quality testing on Francis Street in May 2012. The EPA has installed a mobile testing lab on Francis street on the corner of Fraser Street, close to the Yarraville Community Centre. Testing will take place for 12 months and will test for air quality [...]

It has not been widely reported, but MTAG has been recently involved in a stoush with Chalmers, a large container transport firm that operates at the far west end of Francis St in Yarraville. Chalmers is one of the major generators of truck traffic on Francis St and sends containers to the port (as well [...]