February 22, 2018
Seventeen of the region’s rural roads will receive maintenance grades or get resheeted by the end of the month, and two more will have drainage work carried out.
Roads portfolio chair Cr Gavin Jones told Wednesday’s Council meeting that after almost two years there was still a lot of work to be done to bring the South Burnett’s roads up to scratch.
But road crews were hard at work.
Cr Jones said Redvale Road in Booie, the Bullcamp Runnymede Road at Bullcamp and the Dangore Mountain Road at Dangore will all be resheeted this month.
Long-standing drainage problems on Mustons Road at Haly Creek and Williams Road at Benarkin will be fixed, thanks to a Works For Queensland grant.
And Hunters Road at Wilkesdale, Melrose Road at Melrose, Hoopers Road at Taabinga and Hodges Road in Kingaroy will all get maintenance grades.
So too will Lucks Road (Inverlaw); Schellbachs, Faughnans and Haydens roads (Booie); Zolner and Liesegangs roads (Crawford); Mitchells Road (Silverleaf); and Althouse and Holdings roads (Cloyna).
On the construction side of the equation, the widening and overlay project on Kumbia Road at Kumbia has been extended by 300m thanks to cost savings found during construction.
The final bitumen seal is expected to be laid in March, along with the final seal of the widened Bell Street upgrade in Kumbia.
Earthworks on Old Rifle Range Road in Nanango have now been completed and sub base pavement material is being placed.
A new concrete footpath will be laid along Haly Street from Fisher Street to Tessmanns Road, starting this week, and work on another has commenced at the western end of Stephens Street in Murgon.
But clearing and drainage work on Wattle Camp Road at Wattle Camp has been delayed by the discovery of a micro bat colony.
However, the northern end of the project should have a base layer of gravel laid over 350m by the end of this week, weather permitting.
And work on upgrading a 400m section of Murphy’s Road at Crawford to a two-lane bitumen road should also begin this week if it’s not too wet.
Cr Jones told the meeting he thought it might be good to get out in the community and tell them about the new methods Council was using to get better results from road construction and maintenance works.
But Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff disagreed.
“The feedback I’m getting is that people just want us to get on our graders and get on with it, not talk about it,” she said.
Ever heard of Proston? Desperately needs road works.