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Welcome to the Transport Action Coalition (TRAC) website. This new site contains much of the valuable community information held on the previous TRAC site but unfortunately it is not possible to exactly replicate the previous website. For more specific information on TRAC's successful seven year campaign to delete the Fremantle 'bypass' please go to the 'About Page'.

This 'Home Page' contains general transport based papers and information. In addition, it also contains discussion of other environmental and geographical issues in Western Australia, especially issues not taken up by the established conservation movement in WA.

 

TRAC's General Transport and Planning Papers

  • 'Perth Access to the City Plan' was meant to radically improve pedestrian and cyclist amenity in the Perth CBD. A number of projects were to be completed when the Graham Farmer Freeway opened in April 2000. What has happened to all the commitments?  (2004)

  • Tonkin Highway/Abernethy Road on-ramp proposal. Planning Department and the Planning Minister Ignore Freight Network Review Principles   (2004)

  • The Labor Government's Record on Environmentally Sensitive Road Planning       (Photo Tour)
  • Roe Highway Stages 6 & 7.
  • Tonkin Highway
  • Gosnells Cycle Bridge & Great Eastern Highway duplication (Sawyers Valley)

    •               Link to another campaign to save the rare Spider Orchid

                  More information on the Great Eastern Highway duplication.

    One of the States Biggest Highway Projects

    - Graham Farmer Freeway -

  • Perth's Graham Farmer Freeway opened in April 2000. If Perth ever needed a local example of the induced or generated traffic effect from new roads here is one. The Government has never (and looks unlikely to) carried out its own studies on this important traffic planning issue.    (2003)  

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  • Northbridge Tunnel costs $3 000 000 a year to "maintain". Media release and Parliamentary Questions from Jim Scott MLC former member of WA Parliament.

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    The Fremantle Society (FS), a 'heritage' group based in Fremantle supports greater car access and more roads in the Fremantle CBD. TRAC was critical of its ideas in 2002, and again in 2003 when a FS supporter used a 'turn survey' to call for more car access in the CBD. 

  • Roe Highway Stage 5 and Gosnells City. Bad Traffic 'Planning'.  (2004 -2006)

    • Useful Links to Other Transport Action Groups

    City of Fremantle information on the deleted Fremantle 'bypass'

  • Public Transport Users Association based in Melbourne
  • Sierra Club: Highway Expansion Induces Increased Traffic
  • Victoria Transport Policy Institute extensive information and links from this Canadian site. Valuable resource for planners and activists
  • The Surface Transportation Policy Project and Pedestrian Safety
  • FREMANTLE: Green Star Brigade
  • Road Raging - Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding
  • California Environmental Protection Agency ARB Air Toxics Program Information on public health protection from air toxics
  • U.K. web site Reclaim the streets
  • Cafe Underground presents: Ozymandias' Sabotage Handbook. The Ozimandias Collective's Field Guide to Direct Action - back again!

  • D'Entrecasteaux Coalition Campaign to Protect WA's National Parks and Reserves. Protect Lake Jasper from Mining
  • Adbusters Reclaiming Urban Space Campaign

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     The Beeliar Heritage & Conservation Council. Protecting Important Conservation Wetlands from Road Builders & Roe Highway. Find out why wetlands deserve protection.

     

    Useful Transport Information

     Transport Alternatives (USA). Shrinking Roads Shrink Traffic.


    The Jury is in!!. Building or widening highways induces even more traffic.  

    Health issues associated with diesel exhaust The California Air Resources Board has done extensive research on the health impacts of diesel exhaust.

    Perth: a City of Cars - Alternatives to the Car Culture  (TRAC Leaflet)

    New Scientist Magazine article: Road Blocks Ahead: Computer traffic modelling gets it wrong.


    New Scientist Magazine article: Devil in the Diesel. Diesel emissions and carcinogenic chemicals


    Sustainability Issues

     

    • In light of current trends of the WA Government towards development at any cost to the environment this discussion paper, The Conservation Council of WA and the State of the Environment   (June 2006), suggests that a peak conservation group in WA has suffered capture by the WA ALP Government, something mirrored in the federal political sphere.

     

  • WA Labor's record on Environmental Sustainability, 2005
  • The Core Consultative Committee on Waste. has been working for the State Government to locate a number of new hazardous waste sites in WA. It has come under intense public criticism. Some of that criticism is justified. (2006)

    • THE POLLUTING FACTORY CAMPAIGN GUIDE (FoE): Find Out New Ways To Fight Polluting Industries . 


    UgliTowns

  • Uglitown Newsletter from 2003 deals with toxic sites, Clontarf Hill, acid sulphate soils, local government elections.

    • UgliTown Newsletter No.4. from 2003 looks at urban sprawl, ALP Government attack on public rights and the now deleted Fremantle Highway.


    Mining and Community Rights

    Ever since the Labor Government came into office in WA in 2001 it has been seeking ways, (and slowly implementing them), to facilitate greater access for the mining industry to areas around the state.Two 'reviews' (dominated by the mining industry) have taken place and all and have reached basically the same conclusions, that is the mining industry must have greater access to land in the state and to achieve this landowner and community rights and environmental oversight need to be reduced. A critique of the 'reviews' from the D'Entrecasteaux Coalition and the Denmark Environment Centre are listed below.

     

  • Review of the Project Development Approval System (Keating Review)

  • Further comments on the Keating Review

  • Critique on the Greenfields Exploration in WA Review

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