maribyrnong truck action group submission to west gate tunnel EES
Submission to the 2017 Environment Effects Statement process by the volunteer members of the MTAG committee raised the alarm over a key fact that eluded Maribyrnong City Council in its submission: that this massive project would bring more trucks to Williamstown Road than it had ever had. It warned that Williamstown Road would become “the new Francis St of Yarraville with the status of carrying the most trucks on a residential street in the city.”
MTAG submission: Read here.
PORT OF MELBOURNE CONTAINER LOGISTICS CHAIN STUDY REPORT
2021 report updates previous 2009 study that analysed how containers move between the port and its customers, including the role of empty container parks in the western suburbs. Its observations include a doubling of container movements to the western suburbs in the past 10 years; “latent capacity” for increased truck operations at nights and weekends; and an acknowledgement of air quality and amenity challenges in the inner west.
AUSTROADS REPORT ON THE IMPACTS OF AGED HEAVY VEHICLES
2021 report reveals the alarmingly high health cost of the high number of aged trucks on Australian roads, and outlines a range of strategies that could reduce the average age of Australia’s truck fleet. Read here.
inner west air quality report
2020, Final report of the Inner West Air Quality Community Reference Group, commissioned by the Victorian government following approval of the West Gate Tunnel Project. Full report: Read here. Summary report: Read here.
PORT OF MELBOURNE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
2050 Port Development Strategy, final version released October 2020
Save Willy Road submission on Port of Melbourne draft 2050 Port Development Strategy
government documents
2018, West Gate Tunnel Project
West Gate Tunnel Project to Deliver More 24/7 Truck Bans
Read here2017, Infrastructure Victoria
Advice on Securing Victoria’s Ports Capacity
Read here
LOCAL COUNCIL ADVOCACY
August 2022, Maribyrnong City Council adopts its Air Quality Improvement Plan. The plan restates council’s call for curfews and a truck ban on Williamstown Road. It lists its advocacy for a truck ban as No.1 on its action plan.
2019, Maribyrnong City Council advocates for 24/7 truck bans on Williamstown Road at Ordinary Council Meeting 31 July (meeting was postponed from 23 July per agenda)
2018, Maribyrnong City Council submission to Victorian Government Air Quality Strategy
The impact of air pollution on the inner west
SCIENTIFIC research - reports and articles
2019, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Traffic Pollution Near Childcare Centres in Melbourne
Read here2019, Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA)
Expert Position Statement on Health-based Standards for Australian Regulated Thresholds of Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulfur Dioxide and Ozone in Ambient Air
Read here2019, The Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics
Global Burden of Disease ProjectState of Global Air (SOGA): A special report on global exposure to air pollution and its disease burden
Read here2019, World Health Organisation (WHO)
Ambient Air Pollution: Health impacts
Read here2018, Science Daily
Large Trucks are Biggest Culprits of Near-road Air Pollution
Read here2018, Environment International
Traffic Related Air Pollution and Development and Persistence of Asthma and Low Lung Function
Read here2018, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC)
State-of-the-Art Review Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease
Read here2015, The New England Journal of Medicine
Association of Improved Air Quality with Lung Development in Children
Read here
