by MTAG Maribyrnong Truck Action Group | Mar 20, 2013 | Media files, News, Protest Action, TV stories
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...
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 | Sep 19, 2011 | Media files, News
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...
by MTAG Maribyrnong Truck Action Group | Jul 6, 2011 | Media files, News
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...
by MTAG Maribyrnong Truck Action Group | Jun 11, 2011 | Media files, News
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...