Second Bruce Highway?
Another major Queensland highway proposed to help reduce caravan chaosQueensland Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk has announced that if re-elected her Labor Government would build another inland highway to help reduce congestion on the chaotic Bruce Highway, a notorious stretch of Queensland bitumen that's the scene of regular caravan accidents.
A Facebook post said: “If re-elected, we have a vision to build an inland highway from Charters Towers to Mungindi.
“A second Bruce Highway would take trucks off the existing Bruce, making it safer for communities from Gympie to Townsville.
“Activating an inland freight route will also reduce travel times, support jobs and increase economic activity.”
There was no mention of how the new highway would be funded, nor how long it would take to build.
And while we would applaud the building of a new highway to make it easier to move freight from the south to north Queensland and vice versa, not to mention cope with the annual influx of grey nomads, we’d question the building of a new highway while the existing one is in such disrepair.
Wouldn’t it be easier to upgrade the current Bruce Highway before embarking on such a monumental venture as building a new one?
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