47 worst roads of Wide Bay Burnett as voted on Facebook

There are multiple roads across the Wide Bay Burnett in shocking and dangerous condition. We reveal the thoroughfares our readers have told us they fear the most as we campaign for safer roads.

Wide Bay roads are costing lives and money as families suffer tragic losses and businesses lose money to repair their vehicles.

A road frequently mentioned by community members for its terrifying and poor condition was Curra Estate Rd, a stretch where two people already lost their lives in 2023.

Not even a month later, the community mourned the loss of a beloved 14-year-old rugby league player who died in hospital following an accident on Tin Can Bay Rd.

The tragic accident triggered a demand for a reduced speed limit and safer bus stops by residents who risk their lives everyday leaving their driveways to merge onto Tin Can Bay Rd.

In January, frustrated Goomeri residents celebrated the first birthday of a “pothole” that has swallowed half the road on a section on Maudsley Street.

The massive pothole on Maudsley Street, Goomeri in January 2022.

RACQ members have named 130 of the region’s unroadworthy stretches plagued by potholes, narrow roads with increasingly heavier vehicles and traffic volume, blind corners and rough surfaces.

A Facebook callout was made by The Gympie Times, NewsMail, Fraser Coast Chronicle, The South Burnett Times and Central and North Burnett Times.

We asked residents to name the worst roads in the region - roads that have been badly patched, littered with potholes from flood damage or even dangerous high-speed stretches just waiting for another accident to happen.

Several potholes have been painted red to warn drivers of the dangers on Curra Estate Rd.

Rainbow Beach, Traverston, Kilkivan, Glenwood, Hervey Bay, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Gladstone were regions named to all have roads in bad conditions in the comments.

Here are 47 worst roads as named by you:

Gympie

Curra Estate Road

Smerdon Road

Brooweena Woolooga Rd

Cedar Pocket Rd

Anderleigh Rd

Randwick Rd

Hill Road

Fishermans Pocket Rd

Fosters Lane

Ettrickdale Rd

Shadbolt Rd

Gap Rd

Sexton Rd

Old Gympie Rd

Jerry Creek Rd

Rocks Rd

Noosa Rd

Herron Rd

Neerdie Rd

Glastonbury Rd

Mary Valley Rd

East Deep Creek Rd

Fraser Coast

Torquay Rd

Scrub Hill Road

Maryborough Hervey Bay Rd

Bruce Highway

Brooweena Woolooga Road

Maryborough Cooloola Rd

Tin Can Bay Rd

Queens Road

Woongool Road

Kanyan Road

Alice Street

Walkers Point Rd

Ann Street

Walker Street

Teddington Rd.

Ferry Street

Nikenbah Bingham Road

Mungar Rd

Bundaberg

Norgrove Rd

Bundaberg Ring Rd

Princess Street

Mount Perry Rd

Weir Rd

Central and North Burnett

Gayndah-Mount Perry Road

South Burnett

Kingaroy Burrandowan Road

News Corps’ mastheads across the Wide Bay Burnett are campaigning for regional roads to be improved.

News Corps’ mastheads across the Wide Bay Burnett, including The Gympie Times, the Fraser Coast Chronicle, the Bundaberg NewsMail, the South Burnett Times, and the Central and North Burnett Times, are campaigning for regional roads to be improved.