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 [...]

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 [...]

Last night I was walking home from work along Moore Street when I arrived only minutes after a container trucked rolled at the pedestrian crossing at Ballarat Road. The container truck carrying a 40 foot container rolled on its side landing on the footpath of Moore Street and across the pedestrian crossing at the intersection [...]

MTAG today protested outside the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne where CEDA, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, was holding a conference: Australia to the world: Growing national port infrastructure. MTAG’s action was to highlight the impact that Melbourne Port truck traffic has on our community. MTAG believes the Port must think beyond its own [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]