Editor’s view: Proper commitment needed to finally fix deadly Bruce Hwy
An extra $259m for the Bruce Highway from the Commonwealth is welcomed, but we are demanding there be a proper commitment made to the people of Queensland who rely on this road.
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Demand for Bruce Hwy truce as 41 killed, funding pleas ‘ignored’
Queensland MPs have ramped up funding calls for the Bruce Highway ahead of the federal election following a horror year in which 41 people were killed on the road.
Demands to fix Bruce Hwy escalate after latest flood nightmare
A fresh push has been mounted for upgrades to keep the Bruce Highway high and dry, after it once again failed to help keep Queensland moving amid heavy rain along the east coast.
Bruce Hwy claims 33 lives: Premier vows to fix deadly ‘goat track’
Three people a month have been killed on the notorious Bruce Hwy this year with the state government promising a “long-term strategy” which the Opposition says is “not going to save a single life”.
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OPINION: Dear Premier, time to ditch plane, drive Bruce Hwy
It’s hard to see how a Premier who continues to pick planes over cars can ever truly understand – or be forced to fix – the deplorable state of the Bruce Hwy, writes reporter Geordi Offord
5 times more likely to die: LNP’s funding plan to fix Bruce Hwy
The Opposition says it will fight “tooth and nail” for an 80/20 funding split with the federal government to finish the Bruce Highway, if elected in October.
MP calls for return to 80/20 funding split on Bruce Highway
A new campaign is pushing to revert the funding model for Bruce Highway upgrades back to a 80-20 split between the state and federal governments.
Bruce Hwy stretch that claimed three lives officially worst of the worst
The section of the Bruce Highway where three people lost their lives in a horrific recent crash has been deemed the worst on the highway.
Bruce Hwy still used as a political plaything
The federal government needs a totemic promise to win back regional Queensland, and there’s nothing that unites them better than the Bruce Highway, writes Hayden Johnson.
Triple-fatal bus horror could have been prevented – here’s how
If the Bruce Highway is Queensland’s worst major road, the site of a horror bus crash is one of the worst of the worst. But it didn’t need to happen.
While MPs obsessed over a senator’s grandstanding, three people died
If only our political leaders focused on the dangers of vehicles crossing the median strip in regional Qld as much as they did on senators crossing the floor in Canberra, writes The Editor.
‘Goat track’: Horror highway blasted after bus triple fatal
A horror bus crash that claimed three lives on Sunday has sparked renewed calls for more to be done to fix the deadly Bruce Highway.
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