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Street truck anger By CHARLENE MACAULAY
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THE Melbourne Fashion Festival strutted into Highpoint Shopping Centre last week in an explosion of colour. A pop-up Colour Studio opened last week, which will host a series of events and workshops, showcasing key fashion and interior trends for the autumn/winter season until this Sunday. Meanwhile, pop-up fashion shows will showcase the latest autumn/winter looks tomorrow as part of Highpoint’s VIP shopping day, while Highpoint fashion ambassador Nadia Bartel will do two season style seminars this Saturday. It’s the first time the Melbourne Fashion Festival Picture: JOE MASTROIANNI has come to the West. 115353
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THE Maribyrnong Truck Action Group (MTAG) will block Footscray’s Moore St in morning peak hour next month to protest a 400 per cent increase in night truck traffic. The group plans to lie down on Moore St in their sleeping bags between 8am and 8.30am on 2 April, calling for night time and weekend truck curfews along the residential street. VicRoads truck counts confirm that night time truck numbers on Moore St have increased by more than 400 per cent since 2006. “It’s about symbolically reclaiming some of the sleep that’s robbed nightly by the sounds of the trucks that rumble down Moore St,” MTAG president Samantha McArthur said. “Basically, you’ve got trucks avoiding the City Link tolls as they access the Port, and they’re using what is truly a residential street as a short cut. “We’re trying to highlight to the government that infrastructure to the port is required - you can’t expand the port and increase container traffic without developing infrastructure. “We see time and time again, that
it’s all about making it work for the freight industry, and not paying attention to what the residents of the inner West might need.” Footscray resident Scott Adams lives near Moore St and said night time curfews were desperately needed, especially for young families like his. “It’s really beyond a joke and since we moved in, it has gotten worse and worse to the point now where it’s really hard to get a decent night’s sleep,” Mr Adams said. “We’ve got trucks barrelling down the hill at 60 kilometres an hour, then using engine brakes to slow up for the lights and I really do worry about how long we can put up with this.” The protest comes weeks after Maribyrnong City Council hosted a community forum about trucks in a bid to get some short and mediumterm solutions on the road. Staff from the council and representatives from the Department of Health, Environment Protection Authority and VicRoads were in attendance. Mayor Grant Miles said that truck traffic in the inner West was one of the biggest and most difficult issues facing Maribyrnong City Council.
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