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.

September

  • Elinjaa
  • Herberton
  • Innot Hot Springs
  • Maalan
  • Minbun
  • Moregatta
  • Mungalli
  • Ravenshoe
  • Tarzali.

October

  • Butchers Creek
  • Carrington
  • Glen Allyn
  • Lake Eacham
  • Millstream
  • Mount Garnet
  • North Johnstone
  • Ravenshoe
  • Topaz
  • Upper Barron
  • Wongabel.

September

  • Atherton — Dalip Road, Gallo Road, Hill Road, McCord Road and Peluchetti Road
  • Danbulla — Danbulla Road
  • East Barron — Coleman Road, Knowles Road, Moseley Road and Muntum Road
  • Innot Hot Springs — Herbert River Road and Mandalee Road
  • Malanda — Merragallan Road
  • Millstream — Ballie Road and Split Rock Road
  • Mount Garnet — Aerodrome Road
  • Ravenshoe — Arthur Baillie Road, McGidgen Road, South Arm Close and Tully Falls Road
  • Upper Barron — Aldridge Road, Claringbold Road, Ford Road, Hemmings Lane and Plath Road
  • Wongabel — Pavey Road

October

  • Barrine — Backshall Road, Fletcher Road, Old Boar Pocket Road, Pelican Road, Russell Pocket Road, Shadforth Road, Thorpe Road and Welch Road
  • Butchers Creek — Land Road, Fuller Road, Gadaloff Road, Kingcombe Road South and Old Cairns Track
  • Danbulla — Adams Road, Binnie Road, Danbulla Road, Davidson Road, Eastern Connection Road, Marshall Road, Stewart Road and Winters Road
  • Herberton — Nicholls Road
  • Innot Hot Springs — Blunder Park Road, Glen Gordon Road, Herbert River Road, Mandalee Road and Yourka–Glen Gordon Road
  • Kaban — Arbouin Road, Dalgety Road, Marshall Creek Road and Steele Road
  • Kalunga — Foster Road, Mills Road, Muelteer Road, Rocca Road, Sims Road, Sixth Division Road, Silver Cottage Road, Springvale Road, Stella Road and Western Creek Road
  • Lake Barrine — Gadgarra Road, Pressley Road and Quinlan Road
  • Lake Eacham — Brown Road, Cutler Road, Day Road, Day Road South, Elms Road, McLeish Road and Sewell Road
  • Malanda — Malanda Creek Road
  • North Johnstone — Kingcombe Road North
  • Topaz — Ault Road, Candow Road, Doonoquienbar Road, Gourka Road, Hughes Road, Old Boonjie Road, Pei Road, Topaz Road, Union Road, Wairambar Creek Road, Ware Road and Westcott Road
  • Tumoulin — Racecourse Road and  Toohey Road
  • Wondecla — Bajema Road, Byers Road, Elms Road West, Gribble Road, Harding Road, J A Dawson Road, Miller Road, Taylor Road and Wieland Road
  • Yungaburra — Fox Road, Katherine Road and King 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 take place from October to December.

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 and work should commence in mid–late September.

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)

Danbulla

  • 10.6km of Danbulla Road, across five sections

Jaggan

  • 1.7km of Clarkes Track

Kairi

  • 703m of Hough Road

Koombooloomba

  • 2.8km of Tully Falls Road over two sections

Malanda

  • 130m of Brown Street

Silver Valley

  • 8.4km of Silver Valley Road over numerous sections

Tinaroo

  • 150m of  Church Street

Topaz

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

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

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 — late September
  • Dawson Road — completed
  • Gargans Lane — completed

Beatrice

  • Biggs Road East — late October
  • Biggs Road West — late October
  • Kjellberg Road — mid-October
  • Mullins Road — mid-October
  • Pheasant Road — mid-October
  • Whiting Road — late October

East Barron

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

Ellinjaa

  • Ellinjaa Road — early October
  • Kelly Road — early October
  • Watson Road — early October

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
  • 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 — mid-November
  • Lyall Street — completed
  • River Terrace — completed

Innot Hot Springs

  • Glen Gordon Road — early February
  • Konig Road — late January
  • Uramo Road — early February
  • Woodleigh Road — mid-February
  • Yourka-Glen Gordon Road — early February

Jaggan

  • Merragallan Road — late September

Kaban

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

Kairi

  • Forsyth Road

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 — completed
  • Kirrama Road — early October

Koombooloomba

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

Maalan

  • Sutties Gap Road — late October

Malanda

  • Merragallan Road — late September

Middlebrook

  • Barter Road — mid-October
  • Middlebrook Road — mid-October

Millaa Millaa

  • Barter Road — early October
  • Maple Street — early October
  • Stansfield Road — early October

Millstream

  • Wild River Road — late January

Minnamoolka

  • Cashmere Kirrama Road — October
  • Glen Dhu Station Road — mid–late September
  • Meadowbank Road — completed
  • Wairuna Road — completed
  • Wyoming Station Road — late September

Moomin

  • Moomin Road — completed

Mount Garnet

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

Mungalli

  • Brooks Road — early October

Ravenshoe

  • Allen Road — late October
  • Dixon Hill Road — late September
  • Greenwood Road — late September
  • Harris Road — late September
  • Major Street — late September
  • 5 x No Name Roads — late September and late October
  • Sunnyside Road — late September

Silver Valley

  • Broken Gully Road — mid-December
  • Clark Road — late January
  • Coolgarra Road — mid-December
  • Mount Misery Road — late December
  • Rienecker Road — late January
  • Shady Creek Road — late January
  • Silver Valley Road — late December and early January
  • Tobacco Road — late January
  • Top Nettle–Mount Misery Road — early–mid January

Tarzali

  • Hitchconole Road — early October

Tolga

  • Sims Road — completed

Tumoulin

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

Upper Barron

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

Walkamin

  • Wattle Street — completed

Wondecla

  • Bass Road — mid-November
  • Bradlaugh Road — mid-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 will be resealed. The work was conducted over three days in late September.

The final 4.1km TRC section of Ootann Road will be sealed 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 is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Work is being conducted 7am–6pm Monday to Friday, and 7am–4pm Saturdays.

Wednesday 2 October Update

Work is continuing on the subgrade, drains, coarse base and culverts. One culvert and 1.5km of coarse base have been completed. All culverts are onsite.

Subgrade work will continue to the weekend and sealing will commence around Friday 11 October.

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 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 should be completed by end of September.