{"id":245508,"date":"2019-10-04T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=245508"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:11:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T05:11:56","slug":"trail-feasibility-to-be-examined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/10\/04\/trail-feasibility-to-be-examined\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Feasibility To Be Examined"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_227254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227254\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-227254\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180108proston1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180108proston1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180108proston1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180108proston1-269x167.jpg 269w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/20180108proston1-285x177.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FLASHBACK: Deputy Mayor Kathy Duff, Gladstone Cr Desley O&#8217;Grady, Mike Goebel, Deb Dennien and Mayor Keith Campbell chat at a public meeting in Proston on January 8 &#8230; the meeting called on the Council to apply for funding to carry out a feasibility study into a Murgon-Proston rail trail extension<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>October 4, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South Burnett Regional Council will conduct a feasibility study into extending the South Burnett Rail Trail from Murgon to Proston.<\/p>\n<p>The study has been paid for with a grant from the State Government&#8217;s Rail Trail Local Government Grants program.<\/p>\n<p>It will be carried out by recreation trail planners Mike Halliburton Associates, the same firm which conducted a feasibility study into the South Burnett Rail Trail.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the study, Mr Halliburton will be holding community consultation sessions in Murgon, Mondure, Hivesville and Proston on Tuesday, October 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They will be held at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Murgon Council Office Library at 8:30am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mondure Hall at 10:30am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hivesville Memorial Park (opposite the hotel) at 12:30pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Proston Town Hall at 5:30pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>South Burnett Regional Council Mayor Keith Campbell said the sessions were designed to assess community support for the project; user experience; commitment to ongoing maintenance; and demonstrated benefit to the community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sessions will also address issues and concerns which will allow both the Council and community to be fully informed regarding the proposal,&#8221; the Mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Mark Bailey said the project would investigate a potential rail trail along the disused 45km rail corridor connecting Murgon and Proston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rail trails support active, healthy lifestyles, allow for the innovative use of disused infrastructure and help preserve and manage the environment,&#8221; Mr Bailey said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s why we allocated $14 million between 2017-18 and 2020-21 to help councils build walking, bike riding and horse riding trails on disused state and local government rail corridors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The railway line between Murgon and Proston opened in 1923 after an eight-year construction effort.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It fuelled significant growth in western portions of the South Burnett up to the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>But the decline of dairying in the 1950s led to freight services being cut, and a regular passenger rail motor service on the line stopped in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>The 30km section between Proston and Byee was closed in 1993, and the remaining 15km section was shut in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The call to convert the line to a rail trail was issued last November by the Coverty Creek Social Club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At a public meeting called by the group at Proston in early January, a motion that Council conduct a feasibility study into the idea was carried by a majority of the estimated 50 people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>However, a small number of farmers objected this, citing concerns about their on-farm chemical use and loss of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Those objectors later presented a petition to the Council opposing any study.<\/p>\n<p>This was countered by a petition from people in favour of the project being impartially examined.<\/p>\n<p>Councillors then voted 5-2 at their January meeting to apply for a grant to conduct the study, with several arguing since there was no cost to ratepayers there was no harm having the matter expertly studied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/01\/30\/council-to-study-proston-murgon-trail\/\">Council To Study Proston-Murgon Trail<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/11\/02\/call-to-extend-rail-trail-to-proston\/\">Call To Extend Rail Trail To Proston<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Burnett Regional Council will conduct a feasibility study into extending the South Burnett Rail Trail from Murgon to Proston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,16,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trail Feasibility To Be Examined - 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