United Action - No East-West Tunnel

28/06/2018

The Liberals are planning to resurrect the dud East-West tunnel project. Unfortunately, Labor look set to make this a road vs road election. Lets fight for major investment into public transport as the only way to really deal with traffic congestion. Give us more trains not more tolls!

EXCLUSIVE: A MEGA $30 billion road and tunnel network, including a redesigned East West Link beneath Melbourne, would be built by a Victorian Coalition government.

16/05/2018

Residents in the path of the controversial East West Link are again facing the forced sale of their homes.

14/05/2018

North East Link project called 'short-sighted' and 'bordering on spite' for probably removing chance for train to Doncaster.

23/04/2018

In February several thousand people took to the streets in Sydney under the banner of ‘Fix NSW Transport’. The protest brought together more than 30 community groups from across the state. There was a mood of anger about the privatisation and tollway agenda of the Liberal government. This govern...

26/03/2018

Infrastructure Australia = stooges for the road lobby. We need planning for people not big business profiteers.

The East West Link should be built within five years, the nation’s infrastructure authority says, despite being dumped in 2014 by the Victorian government.

23/01/2018

The private operators of our trains are up to their old tricks again, putting profits before safety, customer service and jobs.

Metro wasted no time launching fresh attacks on staff over the holiday period after their new contract with the state government began. Metro are seeking to cut jobs, despite promising there would be no job losses with the new contract. Up to 30 positions could be cut at stations on the Hurstbridge....

10/01/2018

Were Labor really serious about opposing this dud project? In any respect it's clear that they are just another party of the road lobby by just like the Libs.

The Andrews government has signed off on a future plan for Victoria's transport system that includes the dumped East West Link, a project that it spent more than $1 billion to dump.

06/01/2018

Victoria's politicians have thrown away the benefits of the state's stamp duty bonanza and the proceeds from the Port of Melbourne sale over recent years by investing in politically motivated, badly conceived road projects.They have also delayed and dumbed down vital public transport projects.

07/12/2017

Victorians should be able to vote on Transurban's $5.5 billion West Gate Tunnel – an "oversized" toll road that will worsen city traffic and "damage" the city's urban area, leading experts have said.

21/11/2017

The Andrews Labor government in Victoria is hell bent on proceeding with the controversial West Gate Tunnel project despite serious community concerns and transport experts condemning it as a lemon. The $5.5 billion toll road project has been put forward as an alternative to the West Gate Bridge and...

16/11/2017

The East West Link will go ahead if Matthew Guy wins the 2018 state election and could potentially be built at the same time as the North East Link.

31/10/2017

Another toll road project premised on dodgy figures, except this time it's Labor cooking the books. Putting freight on rail is the alternative to more roads, traffic and pollution.

MAJOR concerns about how much the State Government’s second river crossing will help deal with congestion have been raised by the nation’s chief infrastructure body.