FOOTSCRAY residents have formed a new group in the aftermath of the WestLink and Regional Rail Link plan and are determined to get some answers.

About 50 people attended a residents meeting held by Greens MLC Colleen Hartland and voted to start up a residents group to garner a whole of Footscray approach.

The group currently does not have a name.

“There’s a whole lot of questions that still have not been answered,” Ms Hartland said.

“What people are still really worried about is not being offered enough so that they can stay in Footscray, because Footscray prices have just become outrageous.”

Victoria St residents claimed a major victory last week Public Transport Minister Martin Pakula said they would now have the option to sell their homes to the gvernment.

The residents, who included Milos Pelikan and Sara Cousins, were horrified to discover their houses would be one of the few to be left behind and would be metres from an elevated section of the Regional Rail Link.

“It’s a good result for people who are in Victoria St, on what’s been called the island, but we suspected that there would be other groups of people who are affected in the same way, and there were some others who had similar problems in Albert St,” Ms Hartland said.

She said residents in Buckley, Nicholson and Short streets were also unsure of their futures.