Roads Project Updates

We conduct regular routine inspections on our local network and investigate problems and requests reported by the community. The routine inspections are conducted by our road stewards who drive and walk the assigned inspection routes. The stewards identify, measure and record defects in accordance with our intervention levels. These defects are then recorded in our asset management system.  This provides a measure of the condition of each road, which can be used to establish our routine maintenance and capital work requirements. Through the collation of defect data, programs are then created with consideration of risk, road hierarchy and resources.

January

  • Barrine
  • Beatrice
  • Danbulla
  • Herberton
  • Millaa Millaa
  • North Johnstone
  • Topaz
  • Wondecla.

January

  • Evelyn — Chilverton Road, Ross Road and Smith Road
  • Millstream — Baillie Road, Cliff Miller Road, Mt Ronald Road and Wild River Road
  • Ravenshoe — Coleman Road, Collins Road, Greys Lane, Turner Road and Strang Road
  • Tumoulin — Allen Road, Bitwon Street, Eriksen Road, Pozieres Street, Racecourse Road, Stancombe Road and Toohey Road

Sections of roads across the region will be resealed to improve skid resistance and waterproofing, and to extend the life of the underlying road surface. Work is expected to be complete by March.

The contract was awarded to FGF Bitumen Pty Ltd for approximately $2,252,141.10 including GST.

Proposed roads (subject to change) include:

Atherton

  • 441m of Cumbrian Avenue over three sections
  • 120m of Currie Street
  • 254m of Danbulla Crescent over three sections
  • 246m of Gardenia Street
  • 447m of Grau Street over two sections
  • 313m of Gray Street over two sections
  • 392m of Marigold Street
  • 920m of Grove Street over four sections
  • 115m of Turner Avenue
  • 560m of Weaver Street

Barrine

  • 1007m of Powley Road

Carrington

  • 155m of Sharples Road

East Barron

  • 741m of Knowles Road
  • 581m of Old Kulara Road

Evelyn

  • 1035m of Kelso Road

Glen Allyn

  • 2077m of Bauld Road
  • 1967m of Haines Road

Herberton

  • 190m of Ellie Street
  • 180m of Orchard Street
  • 107m of Rose Street
  • 118m of Rose Lane
  • 128m of service road

Kaban

  • 1254m of Kaban Road

Kairi

  • 399m of Beck Road
  • 1370m of Doolan Road
  • 2169m of Favier Road
  • 58m of Johnson Road South

Kureen

  • 994m of Forrester Road

Lake Barrine

  • 771m of Gadgarra Road
  • 793mkm of McLean Road

Lake Eacham

  • 324km of Cassowary Close
  • 241m of Digby Road
  • 71m of Odyssey Close

Malanda

  • 174m of Brown Road
  • 604m of Burt Road
  • 117m of Emerson Street
  • 226m of George Street over two sections
  • 1355m of Glen Allyn Road

Millaa Millaa

  • 226m of Newells Road
  • 275mm of Oak Street over two sections
  • 885m of Theresa Creek Road

Millstream

  • 1108m of Archer Road
  • 532m of Charmaine Road
  • 666m of Grant Road
  • 1264m of Otto Road

Moregatta

  • 598m of Elias Road
  • 2583m of Moregatta Road over four sections

Mount Garnet

  • 180m of Cemetery Road
  • 826m of Nymbook Road

North Johnstone

  • 81m of Chappell Close

Peeramon

  • 1268m Anderson Road
  • 554m of Jessica Road over two sections
  • 2497m of Peeramon Road
  • 117m of Wicker Lane

Ravenshoe

  • 175m of Curmbu Street over two sections
  • 1995m of Greys Lane
  • 75m of High School Access Road
  • 297m of John Steet
  • 160m of Perrott Street
  • 970m of Tully Falls Road
  • 424m of Vievers Road

Tinaroo

  • 1214m of Black Gully Road
  • 466m of Eden Drive

Tolga

  • 282m of Goodwin Close
  • 167m of Margaret Street
  • 115m of McDonald Street
  • 77m of Nesbit Close
  • 97m of Riedweg Street
  • 331m of Shead Road
  • 3005m of Sims Road over two sections
  • 1121m of Tate Road over two sections

Upper Barron

  • 1735m of Aldridge Road
  • 354m of Andrickson Road over four sections
  • 478m of Kenny Road

Walkamin

  • 219m of Wattle Street

Gravel roads across the region will be resheeted.

Tender T-TRC2024-23 for the Northern gravel resheeting program was awarded to Bono’s Excavations for $1,208,105.82 including GST.

Tender T-TRC2024-24 for the Southern gravel resheeting program was awarded to Bono’s Excavations for $682,936.98 including GST.

Proposed roads (subject to confirmation) include:

Atherton

  • 76m of Access Road (near Atherton Dog Park) — December

Danbulla

  • 10.6km of Danbulla Road, across five sections — December

Jaggan

  • 1.7km of Clarkes Track — December

Kairi

  • 703m of Hough Road — complete

Koombooloomba

  • 2.8km of Tully Falls Road over two sections — January

Malanda

  • 130m of Brown Street — December

Silver Valley

  • 8.4km of Silver Valley Road over numerous sections — February

Tinaroo

  • 150m of  Church Street — complete

Topaz

  • 4.1km of Gourka Road over two sections — complete
  • 656m of Old Cairns Track — November

Work includes profiling, primer seal and asphalt and the program is expected to take place in November.

Proposed roads (subject to change) include:

Atherton

  • 225m of Agnew Street
  • Intersection of Abbot and Grove streets
  • 21m of Grau Street
  • 140m of Jack Street
  • 47m of Loder Street
  • 11m of Tumbare Street
  • 38m of Turner Avenue

Kairi

  • 163m of Godfrey Road

Ravenshoe

  • 155m of Carrick Street

Tolga

  • 33m of Rankine Drive

Yungaburra

  • 103m of Oak Street

A 360m section of Channel Road, Walkamin was renewed and the work was completed in August. Work includes drainage, profiling, subgrade treatment, base gravel, bitumen seal, road furniture and line marking. The proposed roads are:

Three sections of Wongabel Road, Wongabel will be renewed. Work includes drainage, profiling, subgrade treatment, base gravel, bitumen seal, road furniture and line marking. Work commenced on the first two sections on Wednesday 20 November and took about four weeks to complete.  The final stage, near the intersection with Kennedy Highway will commence in January 2025 and take about two months to complete. A full road closure will be in place.

Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements are for the restoration and betterment of roads damaged in the monsoon and flooding between 20 December 2022 and 30 April 2023. Restoration work includes gravel resheeting, heavy formation grading, medium formation grading, patch repairs and pothole repairs.

  • Tender T-TRC2024-05 for the South 1 section of work was awarded to Cheshire Contractors Pty Ltd for $5,552,931.91 including GST.
  • Tender T-TRC2024-04 for the South 2 of work was awarded to Watto’s Earthmoving and Machinery Hire Pty Ltd for $3,247,784.17 including GST.
  • Tender T-TRC2024-06 for the East and West sections of work was awarded to Watto’s Earthmoving & Machinery Hire Pty Ltd for $1,162,535.99 including GST.

Work commenced in July and is expected to take around six months to complete.

The work in our region includes:

Atherton

  • Albrecht Street — completed
  • Dawson Road — completed
  • Gargans Lane — completed

Beatrice

  • Biggs Road East — completed
  • Biggs Road West — completed
  • Kjellberg Road — completed
  • Mullins Road — completed
  • Pheasant Road — completed
  • Whiting Road — completed

East Barron

  • Moseley Road — late November
  • Pinnacle Pocket Road — completed

Ellinjaa

  • Ellinjaa Road — completed
  • Kelly Road — completed
  • Watson Road — completed

Evelyn

  • Chilverton Road — late October
  • Go Tack Road — late October
  • Hill Road — late October
  • Jubb Road — late October
  • Keid Road — late October
  • Pickles Road — early November
  • Ross Road — late October
  • Smith Road — late October

Gunnawarra

  • Gunnawarra Road — early October to early November
  • Oootan Road — late November

Herberton

  • Amy Street — completed
  • Carrick Road — late November
  • Cassell Road — late November
  • Creek Street — completed
  • Ellie Street — completed
  • Emma Street — completed
  • Grant Street — completed
  • James Road — late November
  • Lyall Street — completed
  • River Terrace — completed

Innot Hot Springs

  • Glen Gordon Road — early November
  • Konig Road — complete
  • Uramo Road — late October
  • Woodleigh Road — late October
  • Yourka-Glen Gordon Road — early November

Jaggan

  • Merragallan Road — late November

Kaban

  • Perrot Road — early November
  • Poletti Road — early November
  • Old Kaban Road — early November

Kairi

  • Forsyth Road — late November

Kalunga

  • Cassell Road — late November
  • Foster Road — mid-November
  • Sims Road — mid-November
  • Sixth Division Road — mid-November
  • Springvale Road — mid-November

Kirrama

  • Cashmere-Kirrama Road — one section completed, next section early to late December.
  • Kirrama Road — late November to early December

Koombooloomba

  • Blunder Park Road — mid-November
  • Glen Gordon Road — mid-November
  • Tully Falls Road — mid-November
  • Wooroora Road — mid-November

Maalan

  • Sutties Gap Road — completed

Malanda

  • Merragallan Road — late November

Middlebrook

  • Barter Road — completed
  • Middlebrook Road — completed

Millaa Millaa

  • Barter Road — completed
  • Maple Street — completed
  • Stansfield Road — completed

Millstream

  • Wild River Road — late October

Minnamoolka

  • Cashmere Kirrama Road — completed
  • Glen Dhu Station Road — completed
  • Meadowbank Road — completed
  • Wairuna Road — completed
  • Wyoming Station Road — completed

Moomin

  • Moomin Road — completed

Mount Garnet

  • Agate Street — late November
  • Brownville Road — early November
  • Coolgarra Road — mid-November
  • Jenkins Road — completed
  • Lappa Road — completed
  • Mount Cardwell Road — completed
  • Mount Veteran Road — late November
  • Nymbool Road — completed
  • Wyndham Creek Road — early November

Mungalli

  • Brooks Road — late October

Ravenshoe

  • Allen Road — early November
  • Carrick Road — completed
  • Dixon Hill Road — completed
  • Greenwood Road — completed
  • Harris Road — completed
  • Major Street — late October
  • 5 x No Name Roads — completed
  • Sunnyside Road — completed

Silver Valley

  • Broken Gully Road — completed
  • Clark Road — completed
  • Coolgarra Road — mid-November
  • Mount Misery Road — completed
  • Rienecker Road — completed
  • Shady Creek Road — completed
  • Silver Valley Road — completed
  • Tobacco Road — completed
  • Top Nettle–Mount Misery Road — completed

Tarzali

  • Hitchconole Road — completed

Tolga

  • Sims Road — completed

Tumoulin

  • Allen Road — early November
  • Condon Road — early November
  • Stancombe Road — early November

Upper Barron

  • Belson Road — late November
  • Hemmings Lane — late November

Walkamin

  • Wattle Street — completed

Wondecla

  • Bass Road — mid-November
  • Bradlaugh Road — late November
  • Byers Road — mid-November
  • E Hill Road — mid-November
  • Elms Road West — mid-November
  • Harding Road — mid-November
  • Monds Dip Road — mid-November
  • Reynolds Road — mid-November
  • Wieland Road — mid-November

Assistance provided through the jointly-funded Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.

Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements are for the restoration and betterment of roads damaged in the monsoon and flooding between 20 December 2022 and 30 April 2023. The betterment work includes rock protection, concrete toe walls, concrete causeways and new signs for various gully crossings on:

  • Coolgarra Road, Mount Garnet
  • Grant Street, Herberton
  • Mount Cardwell Road, Mount Garnet
  • Mount Misery Road, Silver Valley
  • Silver Valley Road, Silver Valley (four sections)
  • Wyndham Creek Road, Mount Garnet

Assistance provided through the jointly-funded Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.

Approximately 45m of Albrecht Street in the Tolga Industrial Estate was resealed. The work was conducted over three days in late September.

The final 4.1km TRC section of Ootann Road was widened to 9m and sealed.

Tender T-TRC2023-21 for the project was awarded to Gunther Civil Pty Ltd for $3,130,581.36 including GST.

The project commenced in late July and was completed in late November.

Proudly funded by the Australian Government, Queensland Government and Tablelands Regional Council.

Images © Gunther Civil.

The southern approach to the bridge will be widened or realigned. Construction is planned for 2024–25.

A 4km section of Cashmere Kirrama Road near Big Swamp will be resheeted.

Tender T-TRC2024-08 for the gravel upgrade of Cashmere Kirrama Road was awarded to Tablelands Civil Constructions Pty Ltd for $659,178.58 including GST, subject to negotiations. A further $563,141 has been allocated in the 2024–25 capital budget to complete the project. The project was completed in September.