![]() ![]() Pushing the TMR to start the road is Mareeba miner and earthmover Ron Reddicliffe. The new rail link would allow Cairns garbage to be railed direct to the waste facility at Arriga, taking smelly trucks off the highway and off the main street of Mareeba. The estimated cost of the new road at under $200 million, would be an extension of Highway One, and should be borne largely by the federal and partially by the state governments, according to Mr Katter. It would exclude the Kuranda Range rail line and tunnels. This new line would pick up the existing line at Biboohra then to Mareeba. Stage two of the new road would see construction of a railway line directly to Biboohra from where the new road intersects the Kennedy Highway. ![]() The easement has been designed to cater for a new railway line to pick up the existing line at the Freshwater Valley loop. Proponents of the new road including the Member for Kennedy Bob Katter have asked the state government to excise a 100 metre-wide easement through the State Forest direct to Crystal Cascades Road where the new road emerges. The new road will not cross any major rivers or creeks and is a simple ‘cut and fill’ construction. We can further report that a consultant has been appointed to investigate the proposed new Reddicliffe Track which leaves the Kennedy Highway east of Davies Creek direct to Redlynch Valley, a distance of 18 kilometres. Member for Kennedy Bob Katter and Ron Reddicliffe inspect the massive girders under the ailing Barron River bridge “We can build it in 18 months,” the engineer said.Ĭraig was being conservative probably for the first time in his life at 15 years. If the state government had anything to do with the road construction then it would most likely take 20 years to build, one astute engineer quipped. Those funds could have provided the necessary corridor for the proposed Reddicliffe Highway from Mareeba to the Cairns CBD. Poor Craig, he wasted $30 million on the range road that was declared obsolete by the Main Roads Department in 2005. The cabling contract alone will cost $30 million and it’s anybody’s guess what the completed project will cost or if it will work. Nevertheless now he is installing a system of stop and go lights along the length of the range road trying to stifle the traffic flow. That didn’t go too well with many angry truckies thinking he was looking through the bottom of a brandy bottle while he was solving the problem. He told ABC Radio he would place driver-less cars on the range and that would stop the cars and trucks from careering over the edge. At least two vehicles per week go over the edge as soon as it rainsĪfter Tablelands commuters threatened to lynch poor Craig last year over the poor state of the Kuranda Range Road and its 1000 daily, heavy vehicle movements, he promised the problem would soon be fixed. He is off to Redlynch to set up his new office, fortuitously near the shops and in case the martians come back, he can walk to the bottleo.Ī typical sight on the notorious Kuranda Range Road. ![]() Nor will Craig – the Premier said he didn’t have to. Shark bridge vs bridge barron driver#He got his missus to drive him the few hundred metres but the clinic staff wouldn’t let him in because he hadn’t been jabbed.Īh well back to Smithfield Tavern to top up his depleted supplies, nurse his bruises and lie-in-wait near his bar with a baseball bat for the martians to reappear.Ĭraig is moving his office from Smithfield away from the nearby ambulance station in case he is called to re-enlist as a driver to help replace the 600 ambos he and his Cabinet colleagues sacked because they won’t take the deadly jab. Then he found two martians drinking at the bar under his house and discovered all his port and brandy had disappeared.Īfter a brawl with the slippery aliens, a somewhat bruised Craig called the ambos but they were too busy carting vaxx-damaged victims to the overflowing Cairns Base Hospital and told him to visit the local doctor. In a public tussle between Crawford and Bob Katter every bogey man possible has been dreamt up by poor Craig, in between drinks of course, believing houses will be bulldozed presumably with occupants intact and the job will take 15 years. This is $1.5 billion cheaper than Member for Kennedy Bob Katter’s ‘wobbly way’ to Edmonton and without heavy transport-inhibiting tunnels. ![]() In spite of the garbage spewed forth by the Labor state member for Barron River and former ambulance attendant Craig Crawford, there would not be one house resumption, there would be no added traffic to Intake Road at Redlynch, no tunnels and it can be built in 18 months for $450 million. ![]()
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