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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Transurban Western Distributor Information Session – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! Transurban has re-designed the proposed Western Distributor’s planned freeway tunnel under Yarraville. The entrance is now STARTING in Yarraville and NOT in the existing freeway footprint as first promised.The first design had broad community support, this doesn’t. We urgently need a solution to our truck
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MTAG met with representatives of Transurban on 29 September, for the purpose of a briefing on the second stage of the Western Distributor proposal.We now have a better idea of some aspects of the proposal – including their rationale for shifting the southern portal to the new location of the northern edge of
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Transurban have released an updated design for the Western Distributor.The new design includes moving the Southern portal from the Westgate Freeway to land behind Francis and Hyde Street, with an off-ramp on to Hyde Street for trucks carrying dangerous goods such as petro-chemical tankers. MTAG supports, in principle, the option for placarded loads to directly
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The group Public Transport Not Traffic have put together a petition calling on Daniel Andrews to support Metropolitan Freight on Rail.$58 million dollars is all it would cost to upgrade the rail terminal at Swanson Dock. This money has been fully budgeted for and yet the project has stalled. It’s a no brainer –
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VicRoads, in partnership with Maribyrnong City Council, Department of Health and Human Services, and EPA Victoria, invite the community to attend an information session to hear about the recent truck count results and the effectiveness of the additional curfews on Somerville Road and Moore Street. Attendees can also receive an update on stage 1 of the
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VicRoads have released their latest truck counts and launched a campaign to encourage trucks to use the freeway system at night. The good news is that Somerville Road truck traffic has decreased significantly since the new school crossing time curfew was introduced. There has been a 76% drop in truck traffic during school crossing times,
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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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