Cr Gavin Jones
September 21, 2017
Council road construction crews are working on five major projects this month, and road maintenance crews are working on another 15.
Roads portfolio chair Cr Gavin Jones told Wednesday’s Council meeting construction crews recently completed works on Ellesmere Road, and had widened and sealed a 300m section of Kearneys Road near Kumbia.
Ellesmere Road will later get a full width bitumen seal as part of Council’s reseal program, he said.
This month, construction crews are working on:
- Widening and sealing Crumpton Road in Blackbutt, where earthworks have been completed and the first seal is expected within two weeks
- Widening and sealing Franks Road in Blackbutt, where the first seal has been applied and the final seal is expected in October
- Pavement rehabilitation on the southern side of Kingaroy Town Hall’s access lane, which is now 60 per cent complete and should be finished next month
- Widening a concrete footpath in Fitzroy Street, Nanango where the first section between Flemings Garage and Price Busters has been completed, and the balance is expected to be finished in a few weeks.
- Shoulder widening on a 1.2km stretch of Corndale Road at Memerambi, east of Couchman’s Road, where the first 450m of bitumen seal has been completed, and the rest is expected to be sealed by December
Meanwhile, maintenance crews are carrying out grading on McGillvray Road, Rocky Creek Road and Reeve Road at South Nanango; McIllhaton Road at Booie; Tessmanns Road North and Schellbachs Road in Kingaroy; and Stonelands Road and Kilrush Road at Stonelands.
The crews are also carrying out pavement repair on First Avenue in Kingaroy; pavement rehabilitation on Silverleaf Road at Silverleaf; Cyclone Debbie restoration works on Bookless Road at Haly Creek, and Ellesmere Road and Tucker Road at Ellesmere; culvert renewal on Stonelands Road; and work on Byee Road’s shoulders.
During the past month the crews had carried out gravel resheeting on Tarong Railway Road; shoulder resheeting and pavement repair on Mt Stanley Road and Runnymede Road, Nanango; gravel resheeting on Ironpot Road and Kumbia-Chahpingah Road; and pavement rehabilitation on Silverleaf Road.
Cr Jones said three other projects have been submitted to the 2017 Resilient Infrastructure (Betterment) Fund for funding.
They are Manar Road, Johnstons Road and Broad Creek Road.
Digging up and re-rolling my road, AGAIN, which will wash into pot holes at the next rain… Question, when will we get the road sealed? We bought in 2005 and we were told it was in planning to be done, then told funding set aside, then there were priority roads to be done and now we are told, who knows? So no hand clap for the works in progress from me, still living in a dust bowl thanks to the road… .grrrr
You bought there knowing the road was dirt! Spare a thought for the countless numbers of school bus routes that are on dirt roads and face dangerous intersections. Don’t you think they deserve priority?
Meanwhile out at Durong, Shellytop Road and Mclean Road have corrugations virtually the whole length.
Council has been told year after year of these problems and the damage it causes our vehicles and still they just give the road a light grade which, by the way, is a total waste of time and money because within 2 months the corrugations re-appear.
We get nothing for all the Rates we pay out here. Our rates are due this week and still we endure damaged roads. Not good enough.
I think if all the residents out here refused to pay their rates, the Council would sit up and take notice.
Our school bus route Glencoe Coverty & TH Burns roads are a total disgrace for student safety plus our maintenance costs are away above what they should be because of the road conditions
Yes, school bus routes are a disgrace. Lanigan Rd, Nanango, is one of them. I saw a motorcycle run off the road into the steep rocky gutter recently. Lucky the poor guy didn’t get hurt. The bike, a Harley, was a bit scratched up. The fellow said it was like riding on marbles when he came face to face with a cattle truck that didn’t stop. Likely he didn’t even know with all the dust! Real disgrace when they put 20-30 arrow signs costing God knows how much on one bend between Kingaroy to Nanango instead of actually fixing the road. Why 30 signs on a bend which for 40 years never had one! Council gone mad?
To be fair, Brian, those arrow signs on the D’Aguilar Highway between Kingaroy and Nanango would have been put up by the Department of Transport and Main Roads. So you should be asking if the State Government has gone mad …