Maribyrnong Truck Action Group

Here’s a quick video from our action yesterday on Shepherds Bridge Footscray. Over 200 people were on the bridge adding to the pressure on the State Government to commit to building a truck bypass.  VicRoads estimates that the bypass would remove approximately 1,000,000 trucks per year off our streets. More videos are here on MTAG’s [...]

COMMUNITY groups have demanded the state government stop sitting on it’s hands and honour a Brumby government plan to slash the number of trucks rumbling through the western suburbs. Concerned residents held a rally in Yarraville today calling on the Baillieu government to begin work on the $380 million Truck Action Plan. The scheme would [...]

Article in “The Age” July 6 2011 WHEN Noah Lautman-Wurt was seven, his family took him to his first protest rally over the number of trucks in residential streets in their Yarraville neighbourhood. Noah, now 17, has heard a decade of state government promises to reduce the number of trucks driving through the inner western [...]

BY GRANT REYNOLDS Maribyrnong Weekly 08 Jun, 2011 12:00 AM Roads and Transport Minister Terry Mulder has undermined the future of a $380million project to divert trucks off residential streets after contradicting advice from VicRoads about its benefits. And a local MP says Mr Mulder has to explain whether he knowingly misled the public accounts [...]

Peter Knight June 8, 2011 The Age Imagine 7000 huge trucks roaring past your front door every day. ON JUNE 27, the residents of Yarraville and the inner west celebrate a dubious anniversary. Ten years ago on that day, the Environment Protection Authority measured air quality on the now notorious, Francis Street. This was in [...]

A listen to the John Faine interview on ABC local radio discussing the protest action on the 12 April 2008.

Introduction The Maribyrnong Truck Action Group (MTAG) is a community group that exists solely to raise awareness about the negative impacts of trucks on the amenity of Melbourne’s inner west and to campaign for solutions. MTAG was pleased to submit its Eddington East-West Links Needs Assessment Study submission earlier this year. MTAG welcomes the East [...]