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Work on Westgate announced as community members gear up to launch their own transport planThe announcement that work has commenced on the controversial Westgate tollroad comes amid strong community concerns over the project--from increased...

February 6 from 8 AM - 9 AM Parliament of Victoria Spring Street, Melbourne, JOIN US to launch a community transport vision for Melbourne-wide sustainable transport options! Our political leaders have failed to develop...

Melbourne keeps growing and is becoming ever more congested and crowded. It is expected that Melbourne will soon pass Sydney as the largest city in Australia. If we want to keep our ‘liveable city’...

MEDIA RELEASE: WESTGATE TUNNEL TOLL ROAD ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER APPROVED   Environment group Friends of the Earth and community groups across Melbourne's west have expressed outrage this morning in response to the news the Andrews government...

The planning minister Richard Wynne has today approved the $5.5 B West Gate Tunnel project. Approval of Transurban’s $5.5 billion Westgate Tunnel toll road project locks Melbourne into decades more congestion, tolls and pollution....

2 weeks ago FoE Melbourne launched a new Sustainable Cities Campaign with #WalkThisWay - a 15km community walk following Melbourne's iconic Capital City Trail. Community members are concerned about another massive toll road through the middle...

Will our Planning Minister make the choice to listen to the concerns from the community or commit to more cars, pollution, and toll roads by doing a deal with Transurban? Send an email asking...

Since I started as the FoE & PTNT Sustainable Cities campaigner I have been continually shocked as I learn more about the Transurban $5.5 billion mega-toll road proposed for Melbourne’s West.  What started as...

Melbourne is rolling ahead building giant new toll roads for our growing population. We don’t need more roads, we need a sustainable city. Join us for an info night to build a different vision.

Friends of the Earth and Public Transport Not Traffic support the inquiry into operations of existing and proposed toll roads in Australia.  We seek to secure policy commitments that will protect the environment. After...