News
Seven News Toy Truck Rally
The Deliver us from Diesel 1000 Toy Truck Rally
MTAG and 'Less Trucks for Moore held a successful rally today on the steps of Parliament house today in Melbourne.The groups set up 1000 toy trucks to symbolise the number of trucks using streets in the City of Maribyrnong every hour. Residents of the inner west held...
Deliver us from Diesel : Toy Truck Rally
22 November 2010 Parliament House Steps 10 am sharp Maribyrnong Truck Action Group and Less Trucks for Moore are asking for people to donate toy trucks to use in a rally to draw attention to the increasing numbers of trucks using residential streets in the inner...
Cautious support for preferred Westlink Tunnel route
PRESS RELEASE Maribyrnong Truck Action Group (MTAG) offers cautious support for preferred Westlink Tunnel route provided it is accompanied by strict truck curfews and other measures Maribyrnong Truck Action Group has cautiously welcomed the announcement of the...
Truck Protest Blockade
Less Trucks for Moore Protest Blockade of Moore St Footscray 26 October A new community action group has formed out of frustration about increasing truck traffic on Moore St and Buckley St Footscray.Less Trucks for Moore plans to blockade one of Melbourne's busiest...
Dramatic increase in truck numbers
Truck count figures leaked to MTAG. The Maribyrnong Truck Action Group has learnt that VicRoads truck count figures soon to be released will reveal dramatic increases in truck numbers in the inner west especially in Footscray.The biggest increases have been recorded...
Westlink Tunnel and Truck Action Plan response
PRESS RELEASE TRUCK ACTION PLAN The Maribyrnong Truck Action Group welcomes the announcement of the route for the Truck Action Plan but is asking that the Brumby Government funds the project rather than relying on the Federal Government.The project will take up to...
State Budget 2010, MTAG reaction
PRESS RELEASE Anger is again rising in the inner west after the state government failed to fund the ‘Truck Action Plan' to take trucks off residential streets in the inner west.The project is budgeted at $380 million in the Victorian Transport Plan and building was...
Six lane freeway tunnel under Footscray
According to The Age today, WESTLINK, a proposed six-lane freeway under Footscray and through Sunshine West, is Victoria's ''number one priority project'' for federal funding, according to a Brumby government submission on the road's likely impacts.Quietly lodged last...
5 point Truck Action Plan: An alternative to Westlink Tunnel
MTAG acknowledges the traffic problems the State Government is attempting to solve with the proposed Westlink Tunnel under Footscray. We also acknowledge the positive commitment by the government to the Truck Action Plan Stage 1, which includes on/off ramps from the...