VCAT has made the outrageous decision to approve a child care centre at the corner of Williamstown Road and Francis Street. This intersection is arguably the most polluted in Melbourne and completely inappropriate for a child care centre! Children are highly susceptible to the health impacts of air pollution as they spend more time outdoors and are more active. They
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Will the Western Distributor really rid our streets of trucks? It’s time to hit the streets, to send a clear message to government – commit to permanent truck bans once the Western Distributor is built, and give us world’s best practice filtration, or we don’t support it. Join us for a lawful, safe and family
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The State Government has announced its intention to build the long tunnel design option for the Western Distributor.On and off ramps will connect to the West Gate Freeway in Yarraville and Spotswood but the final design will not contain any flyovers and will be built as close as possible to the existing West Gate Freeway.
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We are very pleased to announce that as of Monday 11th July Francis Street will get a school crossing time truck curfew! This is a huge win for Wembley Primary School children who will never again have to contend with thousands of semis and b-doubles on their commute to and from school every day. Not
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Today MTAG celebrated 10 years of campaigning – a celebration of community spirit, resolve and determination. We were also very excited to launch a mini doco about our 10 year campaign – Port Trucks Out, MTAG’s fight for truck free streets. We are very proud of it and hope you like it too! For 10 years we’ve
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In late September MTAG’s Martin Wurt and Narelle Wilson gave evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Proposed Lease of the Port of Melbourne. Unfortunately there were some fairly major technical issues with the video and PowerPoint presentation. Despite this and some tricky questions from the committee, MTAG managed to clearly convey the severity of
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On June 16th Samantha McArthur and Martin Wurt of MTAG spoke at a Western Distributor community meeting along with Public Transport Not Traffic and Colleen Hartland, MP.It was a great night of discussion and debate around road infrastructure, public transport, congestion and of course removing trucks off residential streets in the inner west. We all agreed
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Australia’s leading cancer treatment, research and education institute, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, has highlighted diesel pollution and particularly truck numbers in the City of Maribyrnong as a major health concern in a government submission. The submission, titled ‘Clean air. Less cancer’ is a response to a government discussion paper on a proposed National Clean
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