April 24, 2015
The South Burnett Regional Council began work on streetscaping Drayton Street in earnest today.
Most of the upgrade work is currently occurring in the section between Henry Street and Little Drayton Lane/Alexanders Lane.
Today Council work crews bulldozed the central gardens in front of the Commercial Hotel order to begin construction of a centre island.
When complete, the new island will have trees and landscaping plants installed, and the area between them will be filled with coloured concrete similar to work already undertaken in Fitzroy Street.
Council workers are also building traffic islands on the kerbsides to permit the creation of angled parking bays on the northern side of this first section.
A Council spokesman said the angled parking bays are expected to painted within a few working days.
The next stage of the project would be to remove the existing centre island and centre carparks from the laneways up to Fitzroy Street.
A kerbside island will be built in that section to enable angle parking, and trees and landscaping plants will be put in the new centre island.
This stage is expected to take at least two weeks.
Linemarking will also be undertaken in Fitzroy Street, south of Drayton Street, to create an extra 13 centre car parking spaces and better define existing parallel kerbside parking.
Today Nanango photographer Keren Mcsweeney photographed Council staff at work in the area.
She said she was very disappointed to see the flower gardens go, and with Anzac Day services in the CBD area tomorrow, thought the timing was poor.
“The plants had just come into bloom, and it was very sad to see them just ripped out of the beds and dumped into trucks,” she said.
“I hope tomorrow at the Dawn Service people will remember that there was a happy and blooming flower bed in the middle of Nanango just a day earlier.”
[Photos: Keren Mcsweeney Photograhy]
