by MTAG Maribyrnong Truck Action Group | Mar 11, 2013 | Media files, News
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...
by MTAG Maribyrnong Truck Action Group | Feb 18, 2013 | News, Protest Action
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...
by MTAG Maribyrnong Truck Action Group | Oct 18, 2012 | News
West abandoned to truck torment, an opinion piece in The Age October 10 2012 NOTHING better illustrates the western suburbs’ second-class status than the feeble efforts to control truck traffic through their neighbourhoods.Over two decades of rising congestion,...
by MTAG Maribyrnong Truck Action Group | Jun 22, 2012 | News
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...
by MTAG Maribyrnong Truck Action Group | Jun 22, 2012 | News
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...