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South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann (Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

February 11, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lack of spending on main roads in Queensland by the State and Federal governments is killing people, South Burnett mayor Wayne Kratzmann told February’s Council meeting.<\/p>\n

He said many ratepayers believed all the roads in the region were Council’s responsibility, but many were not.<\/p>\n

He said the Mundubbera-Durong Road – a main road with heavy vehicles on it – was “a disgrace”, especially where it changed into a single lane.<\/p>\n

But the road is a State Government responsibility, not the Council’s.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately the South Burnett sign is right there,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We need to get the Main Roads Minister out there.”<\/p>\n

Mayor Kratzmann called for more of the registration fees collected by the State Government to be put back into main roads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It’s an absolute disgrace that we have major arterial roads in the South Burnett that are not even close to being done (by Main Roads),” he said.<\/p>\n

He said something had to change, and it was not just a South Burnett problem.<\/p>\n

“It’s not just drink drivers who kill our young people and people on our roads, it’s our darn roads which kill people, because they’re simply not good enough,” Mayor Kratzmann said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said the State and Federal governments had to make roads funding a major election issue.<\/p>\n

And he urged the community to “get on the doorstep” of their local State and Federal MPs.<\/p>\n

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Division 1 councillor Barry Green had sparked the conversation by asking what was happening with the Maidenwell-Bunya Mountains Road.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SBRC General Manager Infrastructure Russell Hood said Council had been lobbying to get funding for the road from the State Government.<\/p>\n

However, under the methodology used – especially traffic volume – it had not scored as highly as other roads.<\/p>\n

“I would recommend that Council try to pursue other avenues with the State Government to seek alternative funding,” Mr Hood said.<\/p>\n

Cr Deb Palmer said the methodology was wrong.<\/p>\n

She said a lot of people simply weren’t using the road – and rentals cars were not allowed to use it – because of the gravel section.<\/p>\n

Cr Green said he and Cr Palmer had been pushing to have the road fixed for eight years.<\/p>\n

“Tourism is the way that we’re going to lead this State out of the mire that we are in,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Three kilometres of dirt road is stopping a major artery into the Bunya Mountains being utilised properly.<\/p>\n

“That is the jewel in the crown when it comes to tourism in the South Burnett.<\/p>\n

“Things have to be done, we keep talking about it and there’s all this gobbledy-gook and bureaucratic you-know-what that stops things from happening.<\/p>\n

“Three kilometres, $3 million or $4 million worth of roadworks, is all that’s needed out of a State Budget of billions of dollars to get that road fixed up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“For the life of me I can’t understand why successive governments of whatever colour over the last 20 years keep denying this area that road.<\/p>\n

“If it wasn’t a main road, I’m certain Council would have fixed it up. Nanango Council would have fixed it up.”<\/p>\n

Mayor Kratzmann said a lot of people didn’t realise it was a main road.<\/p>\n

He joked that after the March 19 election there would be a “new lobbyist’ for the road that Council didn’t have now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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