Road improvement projects in Queensland
editPotential new articles to include road improvement projects.
| Road name | Number | Type | LRRS | Notes | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcaldine-Aramac Road | 573 | D | Yes | 67 km SR19 | Central West |
| Blackall-Jericho Road | 441 | R | Yes | 122 km | Central West |
| Cramsie-Muttaburra Road | 5705 | D | Yes | 110 km 2 projects | Central West |
| Isisford-Blackall Road | 716 | R | Yes | 122 km | Central West |
| Murphys Creek Road | 4104 | D | Yes | 20 km 2 projects (1 done) | Darling Downs |
| Gavial-Gracemere Road | 450 | D | 10 km | Fitzroy | |
| Beams Road | 7 km | Metropolitan | |||
| Brisbane Road, East Ipswich | 7 km | Metropolitan | |||
| Redbank Plains Road | 15 km SR61 | Metropolitan | |||
| Bajool-Port Alma Road | 188 | R | 23 km (done) | NARP | |
| Binna Burra Road | 2021 | D | Yes | 12 km | Natural disaster |
| Tamborine Mountain Road | 205 | D | Yes | 12 km SR95 | Natural disaster |
| Caboolture-Beachmere Road | 128 | D | Yes | 10 km | North coast |
| Caloundra Road | 132 | D | Part | 2 projects SR6 | North coast |
| Brisbane-Woodford Road (Dayboro Road) | 401 | R/D | Yes | 50 km SR58 | North coast |
| Deception Bay Road | 121 | R | Yes | 8 km SR26 2 projects | North coast |
| Clontarf-Anzac Avenue Road (Elizabeth Avenue) | 123 | R | Yes | 5 km SR26 | North coast |
| Everton Park-Albany Creek Road (Old Northern Road) | 900 | R | 7 km | North coast. ? re recent upgrades | |
| Glass House Mountains Road | 490 | R/D | North coast | ||
| Kawana Way | 152 | D | Yes | 10 km | North coast |
| Kilcoy-Beerwah Road | 492 | R | 48 km | North coast | |
| Kin Kin Road | 141 | D | Yes | 35 km 2 projects | North coast |
| Cooroy-Noosa Road (Tewantin Bypass) | 142 | D | part of SR6 | North coast | |
| Hervey Range Developmental Road | 83A | R | SR72 | Northern district | |
| Boundary Road, Coopers Plains | 3 km | QT investment | |||
| Caboolture Connection Road | 9905 | R | Yes | 5 km | QT investment |
| Cooroy-Noosa Road | 142 | D | 22 km SR6 | QT investment | |
| Eumundi-Noosa Road | 140 | R | Part | 20 km SR12 | QT investment |
| Everton Park Link Road | QT investment | ||||
| Burpengary-Caboolture Road (Morayfield Road) | 406 | D | Yes | 7 km 5 projects SR60 | QT investment |
| Samford Road | 407 | D | Yes | 14 km SR22 4+ projects | QT investment |
| Stafford Road | 4 km Metroad 5 | QT investment. ? re recent upgrades | |||
| Sumners Road | 4 km | QT investment | |||
| Tamborine-Oxenford Road | 206 | D | Yes | 22 km SR95 | QT investment |
| Waterford-Tamborine Road | 207 | D | Yes | 24 km SR95 | QT investment |
| Aramac-Torrens Creek Road | 5703 | D | Yes | 269 km | REEF |
| Bundaberg–Bargara Road | 12 km | ROSI | |||
| Floraville Road | ROSI | ||||
| Glenmoral-Roundstone Road | 43 km | ROSI | |||
| Mundubbera-Durong Road | 435 | R | 104 km | ROSI | |
| Rosedale Road | 52 km | ROSI | |||
| Stanage Bay Road | 100 km | ROSI | |||
| Urraween / Boundary Road | ROSI | ||||
| Westwood-Wowan Road | 41 km | ROSI | |||
| Willies Creek-Royles Road | 30 km | ROSI | |||
| Currumbin Creek Road | 2001 | D | Yes | 18 km SR98 | South coast |
| Labrador-Carrara Road | 116 | D | Yes | 11 km | South coast |
| Roma-Condamine Road | 344 | R | Yes | 163 km 2 projects | South west |
| Maleny-Kenilworth Road | 495 | D | 40 km | State network | |
| Mooloolaba Road | 134 | D | Yes | 7 km | State network |
| Garbutt-Upper Ross Road | 835 | D | Part | 16 km | State network |
| Roma-Taroom Road | 4397 | R | Yes | 168 km | State network |
| Townsville Connection Road | 830 | D | Part | State network | |
| Beerburrum Road | 127 | D | Yes | 14 km | Targeted road safety |
| Mount Glorious Road | 4023 | D | Yes | 18 km Part SR31 | Targeted road safety |
| Strathpine-Samford Road | 4032 | D | Yes | 19 km | Targeted road safety |
| Oakey-Pittsworth Road | 323 | D | 39 km | Transport system | |
| Torbanlea-Pialba Road | 164 | D | Yes | 30 km | Wide Bay/Burnett |
| Cloncurry-Dajarra Road | 7708 | D | Yes | 181 km | Stimulus |
| Booral Road | 1632 | D | Yes | 18.3 km | Wide Bay/Burnett |
State Routes with no Wikipedia article
editPotential new articles for State Routes.
| Road name | SR Number | Road Number | Type | LRRS | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany Creek Sub-Arterial Road | 28 | U94 | D | Yes | |
| Camp Cable Road | 88 | 2071 | D | Yes | 7 km |
| Currumbin Creek Road | 98 | 2001, 2011 | D | Yes | see above |
| Julia Creek-Kynuna Road | 84 | 5807 | D | Yes | 117 km |
| Port of Brisbane Road | 24 | 904 | S | Part | Lytton Road |
| Samford-Mt Glorious Road | 31 (part) | 402 | D | Yes | |
| Samford Road | 22 | 407 | D | Yes |
Old Bruce Highway
editThe Old Bruce Highway, an urban and rural road, may be described as any part of an earlier route of the Bruce Highway, which traverses the east coast of Queensland, Australia between the capital city of Brisbane and the regional city of Cairns. In some places, the highway has been deviated several times since the first rough track was made between Brisbane and Gympie in 1868.
The first section of the Bruce Highway opened in December 1934. It was a largely gravel track extending from Rothwell to Eumundi. By 1942, the highway was fully sealed between Rothwell and Eumundi and was extending far beyond its original limits.'[1]
History
editJames Nash discovered gold at Gympie in 1867.[2][3] A gold rush was under way in the district by November 1867.[4] In 1868 a rough coach road was cut from Brisbane to Gympie.[1] This road made use of a bridge over the South Pine River at Bald Hills that had been completed in 1866.[5] The North Pine River was crossed at Petrie by a ford until 1877, when a low-level bridge was opened.[6] The Caboolture River and other watercourses on the route were also crossed at fords.
The North Coast railway linked Gympie to Brisbane in 1891.[7] The coach road was then largely abandoned and soon fell into disrepair. The north coast beaches (now Sunshine Coast) had become popular with tourists, with a weekly steamer to Caloundra from 1888. Railway stations soon became transport hubs for tourists, with coach transfers to various beaches and hinterland towns.[1]
By the mid-1910s there was a growing demand for a better road to the North Coast from Brisbane. Local councils were unwilling to finance "tourist roads", and it was not until after 1920, when the Main Roads Board was formed, that "main roads" were being planned.[1] Opened in 1925, Anzac Memorial Avenue (as it was originally named) was the first bitumen motor road connecting Brisbane to the popular holiday resort of Redcliffe.[8] By 1928-29 provision was made in the Main Roads Act for the category of tourist roads, although little work was done on declared routes until after 1930. The formation of the Great North Coast Road Committee (GNCRC) in July 1928 signalled the beginning of a concerted and co-operative effort to construct a connecting road to and through the North Coast district. It was not until early 1934 that funding was assured and work commenced. The road opened in December 1934.[1][9]
Many of the superseded sections of the Bruce Highway are of historical interest as they provide insights into the small historical towns which have since been bypassed. In the past when the highway passed through these towns, many were thriving centres. Many of the superseded sections of the highway still form the main access roads into and through these towns.
Changes to existing articles
editBruce Highway
editState-controlled road
editThe Bruce Highway is a state-controlled road, subdivided into fourteen sections for administrative and funding purposes. All sections are part of the National Highway.[10]
[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
List of access roads to dams and reservoirs in Queensland
editList of access roads to dams and reservoirs in Queensland provides details of roads that enable access to notable dams and reservoirs in Queensland, Australia.
Notability
editWhile roads to notable objects do not inherit notability from those objects, some of these roads may be independently notable for one or more reasons. A few such roads are state-controlled, indicating their importance in the state road network. Some will have been originally constructed, in whole or in part, to service pioneering industries such as timber-getting and/or farming. Others will have been built specifically to enable the construction of the associated infrastructure, which may have included the capability to handle unusually long and/or heavy loads. Other than state-controlled roads, no potential notability is indicated in this list.
Usability
editFar from being a travel guide, this list merely simplifies the task of determining how best to access a notable dam or reservoir by road. As such, it is a useful adjunct to other articles, including:
- The Queensland section of List of dams and reservoirs in Australia
- Descriptions of dams and/or reservoirs in Queensland
Table
editTable 2
editTable 3
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e "The Great North Coast Road" (PDF). University of Queensland. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ Ferguson, John (2009). The Gympie Goldfield 1867–2008. Gympie Regional Council. pp. 7–9. ISBN 9780646518770.
- ^ "How I Discovered Gympie – Mr. James Nash's Account" Archived 2 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine, The Queenslander (Brisbane), 13 October 1917, p. 11
- ^ "Gympie Creek Gold Fields" Archived 2 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine, The Brisbane Courier, 14 November 1867, p. 2
- ^ "The History of Bracken Ridge". blogspot.com. 16 April 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ "Petrie history". Moreton Bay Region Libraries. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- ^ Environmental Protection Agency (2000). Heritage Trails of the Great South East. State of Queensland. pp. 90, 148. ISBN 0-7345-1008-X.
- ^ "Anzac Memorial Avenue (former) (entry 602693)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ^ "Qoeensland Roads (Page 18)". Main Roads Queensland. December 1984. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ The State Road Network of Queensland (PDF) (Map). Queensland Government ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 30 June 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ^ "Metropolitan district map" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
- ^ "North Coast district map" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ "Wide Bay / Burnett district map - Page 1" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Fitzroy district map" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ "Mackay/Whitsunday district map" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ "Northern district map" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "Far North District map" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2023.