January 18, 2017
Motorists using the D’Aguilar Highway may experience some delays travelling through Coolabunia from the end of this month.
A $1.05 million upgrade of the intersections of Coolabunia Road and Mary Street will be starting soon.
The funding to upgrade the two intersections comes from the Federal Government’s Black Spot Program, and was announced last April.
At the South Burnett Regional Council’s first meeting for 2017 on Wednesday, Roads portfolio chair Cr Spud Jones’ report noted that another Black Spot intersection upgrade – at Taylors Road and the Bunya Highway north of Kingaroy – is also progressing.
A design for a dedicated turning lane will be forwarded to Transport and Main Roads soon for their review and comments.
Work on building the $600,000 Federally-funded upgrade will start once the design gains TMR approval.
- Related article: $1.65m Upgrade For ‘Black Spots’
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Grader maintenance of unsealed roads will be undertaken in the Wheatlands, Byee, Tablelands, Wondai, Chahpingah and East Nanango areas this month.
Road reseals will continue in Coolabunia, South Nanango, Kumbia, Chahpingah and Hodgleigh.
Gravel overlaying and seal widening of the Blackbutt Crows Nest road will continue, and so will improvements on the Kingaroy Barkers Creek and Clark and Swendson Roads intersection near Swickers, east of Kingaroy.
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Alford Street in Kingaroy is likely to remain blocked to traffic for another month as work proceeds on upgrading a bridge over Kingaroy’s storm water drainage system.
Culverts have now been installed at the site of the old bridge below the Kingaroy Swimming Pool, and work will continue on the end structures, drainage connections and handrails over the next 4-5 weeks.
Once the new bridge is built, the road will be reopened.
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Two other new bridges are also getting closer to completion, but more work remains to be done.
Kings Bridge will be opened shortly – weather permitting – once signage and road furniture are installed and the current sidetrack has been removed,
Marshlands Bridge, however, is unlikely to be completed as quickly.
It needs to have its old concrete abutments removed, new headstocks formed, new abutments built and deck units landed.
This is a process likely to take several months.
