WESTCONNEX contractors carrying out geotechnical drilling in Haberfield called police this morning after residents entered the site to ask why work on the M4 East is commencing before any planning approval is granted.

WESTCONNEX Action Group (WAG) welcomes the commitment Marrickville Council made at its meeting tonight to seek an immediate stop work order on the Alexandria Landfill site, which the WestCONnex Delivery Authority (WDA) is now preparing for the St Peters Interchange.

WESTCONNEX Action Group calls on Prime Minister designate Malcolm Turnbull to show good economic sense and immediately withhold Federal funding for Tony Abbott’s big polluting toll road.

WESTCONNEX Action Groups across Sydney are calling on the Planning Minister to give affected residents at least 60 days to respond to the M4 East environmental impact statement (EIS) that will be released today.

FAMILIES from Haberfield and Ashfield will march from Haberfield Public School to the pedestrian footbridge at the corner of Parramatta Rd and Bland St this afternoon to highlight the destruction WestCONnex will cause to their suburbs.

FAMILIES from Haberfield and Ashfield will march from Haberfield Public School and onto the pedestrian footbridge at the corner of Parramatta Rd and Bland St on Wednesday afternoon to highlight the destruction WestCONnex will cause to their suburbs.

INNER WEST residents have blocked WestCONnex trucks from entering the St Peters Interchange construction site after their concerns about the unsafe and possibly illegal asbestos removal from the former dump have continued to go ignored.

ROADS minister Duncan Gay has been slammed for resorting to grubby insults yet again as he scrambled to defend the lack of transparency surrounding the WestCONnex toll road.

INNER WEST residents blocked WestCONnex trucks from entering the Alexandria asbestos dump after witnessing days of unsafe removal.

HUNDREDS of people packed into the Save Newtown Stop WestCONnex public meeting held by the Newtown branch of the WestCONnex Action Group (WAG) and supported by the Newtown Precinct Business Association last night.