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Residents are worried about the additional traffic that will result from an increase in container movement through the Port of Melbourne. (ABC TV)
About 200 protesters caused traffic chaos at Yarraville in Melbourne's west this morning by blockading a busy truck route to the Port of Melbourne.
The morning peak hour protest by the Maribyrnong Truck Action Group closed the intersection of Francis Street and Williamstown Road for half an hour.
The group says at least 8,000 trucks pass through the intersection each day, most carrying shipping containers.
The protesters are concerned truck traffic will increase by 25% after the Port of Melbourne's shipping channels are deepened.
They say the Victorian Government has not planned for the impact of Port expansion on traffic congestion.
Protest spokesman, Peter Knight says the trucks are causing health problems, road accidents and stress to residents.
"In the last 10 years you've got to realise that this truck traffic has increased by about double since the completion of Bolte Bridge and Ring Road and people's houses are literally falling apart," Mr Knight said.
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The poor home owners. I have been down these streets and it is atrocious how much pollution and traffic is actually there. Large semi-trailers rumble past and if you happened to be walking down the street, besides being choked on the fumes, you would not be able to have a conversation at all as it was a constant stream of large trucks rumbling past. The houses had cracks that you could see from the road. I would not like to live there at all.
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