Maribyrnong Truck Action Group

According to Maribyrnong Weekly this week… THE health impacts of diesel smoke from the thousands of trucks passing through residential streets in Yarraville each day will be measured for the first time in a decade. Environment Protection Authority Victoria will soon set up an air-monitoring station near the Yarraville community centre on Francis Street, Yarraville. [...]

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 [...]