Granted, yes there are and should be priorities.Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
However it is not a road between two nowheres.
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Originally Posted by V8Ian
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Granted, yes there are and should be priorities.Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
However it is not a road between two nowheres.
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Originally Posted by V8Ian
I'm not a cynic...:angel: no, not I:twisted: just wondering "who" is pusing for the upgrade and might they just happen to live on property adjacent to said road.Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
I'd wondered as to why the Cape York PRD was only sealed in sections.... a glimpse of the bleeding obvious hit me in a dream... it's largely the unsealed sections which are under water for half the year during the wet season. To "seal" it will mean elevating the present unsealed sections, in some cases by up to several metres for dozens of km. Apart from the two lanes, the shoulders also need to be expanded and elevated to allow safe stopping. Then add underpasses for wild life, safety rails... it will be a mammoth task. Then there's all the environmental t's & c's, sacred sites, marsupial meeting places, secret political business.. and once it's sealed, gone will be the opportunity for people to live the vicarious life of a frontier explorer .... just another bitumen track. Advertising signs, fast food joints...aaahhh!
Or the big miners.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoges
A slight exaggeration maybe; from a dying town with a population under 1200 to a BP servo in the middle of nowhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
Hughenden has a visitor information centre, library, showground, shire hall, racecourse and dinosaur statue.
The northern end is merely a junction, with only a signpost, where the dirt meets the 3 metre ribbon of bitumen known as the Lynd. The BP is 5 kay south of the junction.
What in the 32 years since my last trip along that road, it hasn't been populated with a Golden Arches with McCafe every 20 km?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoges
If that's the case I'm not going, they can leave it dirt for all I care! :angel:
If there is a spare 70 kicking around, I think more bang for the buck on Bruce Hwy black spots.
Oh imagine if the school hall and pink batt money had been spent on black spots, and level railway crossings, Thanks Kev, you've done it again mr Magoo
Nothing to do with tourists, all to do with transporting cattle to the expanding market in Asia, Bob
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24739147...sland-highway/
Hann Highway Action Group chairman Russell Lethbridge said there was 110 kilometres to be sealed at a cost of approximately $70 million.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoges
"That also includes the 30 kilometres south of Torrens Creek which links the Hann Highway to the south," Mr Lethbridge said.
The Lethbridge family has owned Werrington Station, bordering Blackbraes National Park, for almost 120 years and the 20,000 hectare property runs about 3,000 head of cattle.
I travelled this route about 20 or so years ago. Cant say I recall passing any other vehicles at all :confused: .
Have to say I experienced one of the very best feelings I think I've ever had on a trip. :D
That was to stand on the bonnet of the car and look out at absolutely nothing. Just miles and miles of flat land. Incredible.
Then there was Porcupine Gorge, the Undara Lava Tubes, not to mention the dirt road driving. :cool:
For me, its a good tourist route, plenty to see, and very much an "outback" experience.
I'm sure the locals and the transport guys are feeling the pain of an extra 800klms to Melbourne.
I would have thought though, that running truck fulls of cattle down to Melb would be defeating the purpose of making money anyway. Swap profits for transport costs :confused: Surely one would think these cattle would/could either be slaughtered in QLD somewhere, or loaded on a boat up there somewhere to go OS.
We towed a tinnie up there, broke both barn door windows, the 1st about 50klms into the dirt just out of Longreach, and the other about 10 klms from the end of the dirt :eek:. Broke a trailer gaurd and damaged both bearings.
As a tourist, I would'nt have had it any other way, and would love to do it all again, and not on bitumen.
As a land owner/worker in that area, I cant say how I'd feel. But I've watched roads/areas improve around me, and all I see is more people driving faster, more congestion, impatience and accidents.
I'm sure there would be better stuff to spend the money on which would benifit far more people overall, than this particular road.
Just my 2cents.