Thread: Seal the Hahn Highway?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

There is nothing between Hughenden and The Lynd Junction except a few cattle stations and a small National Park, Mick.

I'm not a cynic... no, not I just wondering "who" is pusing for the upgrade and might they just happen to live on property adjacent to said road.

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!

Originally Posted by Hoges

I'm not a cynic... no, not I just wondering "who" is pusing for the upgrade and might they just happen to live on property adjacent to said road.
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Or the big miners.......

Originally Posted by V8Ian

It's a road from nowhere to nowhere,

A slight exaggeration maybe; from a dying town with a population under 1200 to a BP servo in the middle of nowhere.

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.

Originally Posted by Hoges

I'm not a cynic... no, ...
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.... just another bitumen track. Advertising signs, fast food joints...aaahhh!

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?

If that's the case I'm not going, they can leave it dirt for all I care!

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/

Originally Posted by Hoges

I'm not a cynic... no, not I just wondering "who" is pusing for the upgrade and might they just happen to live on property adjacent to said road.

Hann Highway Action Group chairman Russell Lethbridge said there was 110 kilometres to be sealed at a cost of approximately $70 million.
"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.