Our People

Our group comprises of elected committee members, business leaders, concerned citizens and local and effected residents within the community.  The mix of different backgrounds, skills and expertise will provide the group the necessary know-how to address this enormous task on behalf of the community.

Behaviours and Standards

We will conduct ourselves in a transparent manner, be streamlined and responsive to the needs of the community, in order to realise our objectives and goals with respect to this long awaited and necessary upgrade to this part of the Calder Highway.

Goals and Objectives

The Calder Action Group (CAG) has been formed by concerned community members to obtain agreed, committed and immediate funding, design plans and the letting of construction tenders to upgrade and construct a safer and improved Calder freeway. In the first instance plans will include access and cross over bridges to address safety issues and reduce the number road accidents and resultant deaths in the area. The length of road that is of major concern stems along the Calder Freeway between the Western Ring to Holden Road just past the Calder Park Thunderdome and Raceway.

The CAG will actively lobby both the Victorian State Government and the Federal Government to jointly fund desperately needed construction works to complete the upgrade.

The CAG will provide realistic justification together with a united Community Voice to realise its objective.

Topics included in the justification and lobbying process include:

• Road Safety
  
• Environmental Impact
• Economic Competitiveness
• Growth Corridor
• Regional Centre Impact
• Traffic Congestion
• Job Creation
• Impact on Regional Tourism
• Future Vision and Foresight