[Greens-Media] Labor's truck leaflet misleads community - Greens

[Adele.Pedder at parliament.vic.gov.au]

Greens MLC Colleen Hartland has called on Labor to withdraw its misleading 
letterbox campaign* and to come clean on their failure to get trucks off 
residential streets in the West.

"The solution to getting trucks off our streets is to move freight onto 
rail and to implement the Truck Action Plan - Labor failed to do both of 
these in their 11 years of government and in reality each year the number 
of trucks on our streets increased," said Greens MLC Colleen Hartland.

"In government Labor failed to deliver on its freight on rail target of 
30% by 2020. Instead, the proportion of freight transported by rail 
plummeted from 20 per cent in 2000 to 12 per cent in 2008-09. And the 
parts of the Truck Action Plan  that Labor committed to fund were road 
widening projects putting more trucks on our roads." 

"Any person who walks, rides or drives on our streets can see that Labor 
failed. Yet, they are doing a letterbox campaign telling people how great 
they are on this issue. This is misleading the community. Not one truck 
was removed from our streets by Labor."

"Freight moving through our suburbs is set to double within 10 years - 
that's double the number of trucks on our streets unless drastic action is 
taken to put freight on rail and implement the Truck Action Plan." 

"Unfortunately, the coalition government too has failed the West. They 
have no freight logistics plan, no freight on rail target, and the Truck 
Action Plan is under review. This is despite years of criticising Labor's 
failures in this area."

"The Greens have been the only consistent advocates for freight on rail 
and I've been on the barricades with the community from the start. Rather 
than carping from the sidelines I'll be working with the community, local 
councils and the liberal government to make rail freight a real priority." 
said Ms Hartland.


For comment: Colleen Hartland 0417 445 845


* See Labor's truck leaflet attached.





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Adele Pedder

Electorate Officer
Colleen Hartland MLC
 
Ph: 9689 6373
Fax: 9689 6227
www.mps.vic.greens.org.au
 
75 Victoria Street 
Seddon 3011
 

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