Community Liaison Groups (CLG) provide an avenue for community representatives to learn more about the West Gate Tunnel Project, share valuable community insight to the project team and help support community engagement activities.
Since 2016, CLG members play an important role in keeping the local community informed about the key stages of the West Gate Tunnel Project.
The CLG meet regularly, with meetings facilitated by an independent chair. The forum is used to discuss construction progress and plans, broader project initiatives and share community feedback and concerns. The meetings are an important avenue for members to provide local perspective on the project, particularly in relation to local issues and resolving community concerns.
For more information:
- Read the Terms of Reference for information about what CLG discussions involve.
- Have a question? Ask us online.
- Email us at clg@wgta.vic.gov.au.
- Call us on 1800 105 105.
Our CLG members share what the completion of tunnelling means to the local community
Kevin Redfern, local resident: "Breathtaking, what an experience, it's just unbelievable to see the technology up close, the huge piece of machinery, majestic in the way it operates. Fabulous - it's the only way I can describe it."
Nat Lewis, Tunnelling Superintendent: "This is the largest project that we've had in this country, these two tunnel boring machines are the largest ever machines in the Southern Hemisphere. Quite an effort to get to this stage."
Taibel Rosas Rodriguez, Tunnelling Engineer: "So what happens is that we take the machines out, part of the machines is going to be buried inside the portal... and we also start taking out the back end works gantries that come right behind the TBM, and cross passages as well... it's just going to be part of the demobilisation of everything that's happening inside the tunnel."
Con Frescos, local resident: "With the project going on, from a community sense, it'll actually eliminate all the traffic that surrounds, especially in Yarraville.
We've been talking about traffic for years and this will hopefully, and I'm sure it will, remove all that big truck traffic that's coming through, and make it safe for our residents and for our children that are growing up in that area.
So, big day, big occasion and obviously a big environmental saviour for our suburbs in some sense. Thank you."
