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TRANSPORT ACTION COALITION

TRAC is a community group which formed to oppose the Fremantle Eastern Bypass and to seek environmentally sustainable solutions to regional traffic problems.

Area Maps

CLICK HERE to view a map of the highway plan that was proposed and some of the impacts from the proposed Roe and Fremantle Highways.

CLICK HERE to view a map of some of the impacts from the proposed Fremantle-Rockingham Highway (FRCAH). Even though the Fremantle 'bypass' has been deleted there is still plans to build the FRCAH.

The Metropolitan Scheme Amendment (to delete the FEB)
Read TRAC's submission to the WA Planning Commission in favour of the Metropolitan Region Scheme Amendment to delete the Fremantle 'bypass' . (2004)
(2004)

A summary paper from TRAC listing the independent studies supporting deletion of the Fremantle'bypass', community benefits of deletion and the tactics employed by the Liberal Party to stop deletion.(2004)

Summary of what the WA Planning Commission's own studies on the Fremantle 'bypass' found. (2003)

The Freight Network Review
In 2001 the State Labor Government held the Freight Network Review Congress to decide on the route for Roe Highway Stages 7 and 8. Two TRAC members wrote about their experience of the Review process.
TRAC's submission to the Government's Freight Network Review of 2001

Saving Clontarf Hill

TRAC was highly critical of the low standard of the environmental review Main Roads WA, the proponent of the Fremantle'bypass', released for the Clontarf Hill remnant bushland open space justifying its destruction for the highway. (2000)

Friends of Clontarf Hill paper summarising the importance of the remnant bushland and why it deserves protecton and enhancement.

Friends of Clontarf Hill made a submission to the WA Planning Commission during the Metropolitan Region Scheme Amendment hearings on the deletion of the Fremantle Highway (2003).

Friends of Clontarf Hill hard work finally pays off with a Premier's award in 2003.

Saving the Beeliar Regional Park Wetland and Lake System

Research Report by the Beelair Conservation and Heritage Council

The Case for the Deletion of the Proposed Roe Highway Stage 8 Reservation through the Beeliar Regional Park North Lake and Bibra Lake : A Community Report. Why the proposed Roe Highway Stage 8 route should and must be deleted. Government departments, government committes and members of parliament confirm it in their own words.

(Due to the size of the report some graphics have been left out. Contact the Beeliar Conservation and Heritage Council for a complete report)

Associated Fremantle bypass Information

Without the Bypass - Where will all the traffic go? Article by Transport Planner Carey Curtis (2002)

TRAC's submission to the Department of Transport's Perth Metropolitan Freight Transport Strategy 1999. It was just another highway building plan from the government.

TRAC flyer on the Liberal Party Highway Hypocracy. (2004)

TRAC made a community submission to a Fremantle bypass forum held by the City of Fremantle in 2000

Main Roads WA has a standardised justification for roads it wants to build. It did the same with the Fremantle 'bypass'. (1998)

Perth's Transport Statistics and Information Did You Know That Perth Had The ... (2000)

TRAC Newsletter Index

March 2004

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October 1997

The City of Melville was part of the Liberal Party campaign to stop the deletion of the Fremantle ' bypass'. It made misleading and inaccurate comments during the deletion process and spent over $100 000 in its political campaign. TRAC was one of groups that exposed the Melville misinformation.

MELVILLE COUNCIL - - " BYPASSING the FACTS -Exposing the claims made by the City of Melville and its support for more highways through established suburbs.(2002) - ".

Melville Council has for some time supported BIG upgrades to Leach Highway (2003)

Flyer on why Melville Council's highway plan would have INCREASED traffic on South Street and Leach Highway. (2002)

TRAC Papers Associated with the Highway Deletion Campaign

Comments on the Leighton Shores proposal. In 1999 the State Government planned to urbanise and build a big new highway through Leighton. (2000)

In 1997 the State Government planned commercialisation of part of the Victoria Quay at the Fremantle Port.TRAC's submission examined this and the potential traffic impacts on the existing road infrastructure. (1997)

TRAC Media Release Index

2005

Time Right for South Street Deletion.

Highway Deletion Breathes New Life into Clontarf Hill

2004

Planning Department Dumps Freight Network Review Principles.

2003

Deletion of Fremantle Highway Makes Sense.

Fremantle Highway Deletion Tabled in Parliament

Community Planting Day at Clontarf Hill

Fremantle 'bypass' Deletion Win in Parliament