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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...
Rudd ‘must deny’ WestLink funds
Maribyrnong Truck Action Group yesterday met Infrastructure Australia chief Michael Deegan in Sydney to discuss funding big transport projects in Melbourne's west.Group president Peter Knight said it did not want the federal government to fund WestLink, a freeway the...
Channel 7 on Truck traffic cameras
James Fraser and Martin Wurt with the FOI results from Vic Roads that shows only two fines have been issued as a result of the installation of $300,000 worth of traffic cameras.
Truck curfew cameras unreliable
CAMERAS that are supposed to help catch truck drivers who keep inner West residents awake by flouting curfews have been riddled with problems, documents show.A VicRoads internal office memo - obtained under Freedom of Information by the Maribyrnong Truck Action Group...