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Ted Baillieu under pressure to ramp up truck action-Herald Sun
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...
News reports Westgate ramps coalition
Westgate Ramps Coalition Media Release: Community Rally
Media Release: Community Rally September 18th Yarraville Gardens Transport Workers Union joins with residents to call for Westgate Ramps truck route to be built In a major development in the battle to get trucks off residential streets in the inner west, the Transport...
Locals make noise over buck-passing on trucks
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 promises to reduce...
Australians want trucks off our roads
Almost 70 percent of Australians want truck movements restricted to non-peak periods and 50 percent of Australians want large trucks banned from cities, according to polling released today by a public transport and health coalition.The poll, of 1500 Australians was...
Mulder ‘denial’ puts truck project in doubt
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...
Diesel poison leaves inner west fuming
Peter Knight June 8, 2011 The Age Imagine 7000 huge trucks roaring past your front door every day.ON JUNE 27, the residents of Yarraville and the inner west celebrate a dubious anniversary. Ten years ago on that day, the Environment Protection Authority measured air...
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...