(Photo: Nanango Electorate Office)
November 7, 2017
Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington has announced more roadworks which could benefit the South Burnett if the LNP wins government at the State Election.
An LNP Government would spend $4.5 million to widen and seal single-lane sections of the Kilkivan-Tansey Road. a major connecting link between the Burnett Highway and the Wide Bay Highway.
“We must improve safety on this road, and upgrade it to become a realistic option for transport companies and primary producers who need to move stock and products. In its current state, it’s just too dangerous,” Mrs Frecklington said.
The roadworks would be funded from the LNP’s proposed $60 million Beef Roads Program which would undertake major upgrades to 10 regional roads across Queensland.
Other Beef Roads projects in the local area would include $1.5 million towards upgrading Oakey-Cooyar Road, $1.5 million for Bowenville-Moola Road, and $15 million for Mundubbera-Durong Road.
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Mrs Frecklington also announced an LNP Government would make an initial investment of $1.1 million to improve sections of the Brisbane Valley Highway within the Nanango electorate.
“Nanango residents have suffered from a lack of new infrastructure projects for too long under Annastacia Palaszczuk. Especially those who need to travel regularly on the Brisbane Valley Highway,” she said.
Mrs Frecklington said that under the former LNP Government she had secured funding for a new overtaking lane north of Toogoolawah as well as a 2km upgrade of a stretch of the highway south of Fernvale.
“We all know the Brisbane Valley Highway is important network road connecting regional areas to Brisbane, but it is in desperate need of a funding injection,” she said.
Upgrading the Brisbane Valley Highway would come from the LNP’s reinstated Royalties for Regions program.
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Mrs Frecklington said $5 million from the LNP’s proposed Better Bridges program would be spent on replacing a wooden bridge over Running Creek on the Broweena-Woolooga Road, north of Woolooga.
The project would improve safety as well as increase the capacity of the road.
Other local projects from the Better Bridges program would include $35 million towards the Boyne River Bridge replacement, and $5 million towards upgrading Cooyar Bridge on the New England Highway at Cooyar.
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