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Traffic jam for miles as the flood damaged Bruce Highway causes massive delays between Maryborough and Gympie. Picture Lachie Millard

Full ListQLD Politics

Bruce Hwy is Qld’s most hated road – these are the next nine

Drivers are up to five times as likely to crash on parts of the Bruce Highway than those in remote areas of NSW and Victoria, new figures show.

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Deputy Premier Cameron Dick at Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre at The Gap on Sunday. Picture Lachie Millard

Dick says Albo open to 80 per cent share of Bruce Hwy funding

The state government is adamant its federal counterparts will overturn a detrimental Bruce Highway funding decision despite repeated rejections from the Prime Minister.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 19, 2024: The Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton speaks to the media during a visit to the Valley District cricket club in Ashgrove. Picture: NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Coalition drops major Bruce Highway funding bombshell

Queensland’s deadliest highway would receive a major funding boost under a reinstated 80:20 split if the Coalition wins the federal election in 2025.

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Revealed: Truth about cost of 2032 Games vs Bruce Hwy fix

New state government modelling shows how the cost of fixing the Bruce Highway compares to that of building Olympic venues.

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Road Tek crews are busy patching potholes along the Bruce Highway after January 2023 rainfalls closed the road at several points including at Bowen and Proserpine. Picture: Heidi Petith

Bruce Highway ‘bloodbath’ a national disgrace, say angry motorists

Driving around ‘disgustingly large potholes’ on the day after her partner’s son was killed on the Bruce Highway, a Qld woman has joined hundreds of readers in describing the ‘goat track’ as a joke which is inflicting a lifetime of pain upon those left behind. JOIN THE CONVERSATION

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Editor’s view: Let’s finally fix our corridor of shame

There are two things that unite pretty well every Queenslander: their love of our State of Origin rugby league team, and stories of woe from their travels along the Bruce Highway, writes the editor.

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9/4/2024: QLD Premier Steven Miles and Federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King and State Transport Minister Bart Mellish , celebrate the completion of Bruce Highway upgrades between Caboolture and Elimbah, at Caboolture, Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

‘Disastrous state’: Transport Minister slammed over Bruce Highway

The Opposition has taken aim at the “disastrous state” of the Bruce Highway, homing in on the Transport Minister and the federal Labor government’s 2017 commitment to establish a Trust Advisory Council.

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Mapped: Explosive secret report exposes how bad deadly Bruce Hwy is near you

Secret data exposes the disgraceful state of the Bruce Hwy, with deadly danger zones strewn along the 1700km. USE THE INTERACTIVE MAP

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‘Necessary evil’: What Qld drivers think of the Bruce Highway

More than half of Queenslanders have witnessed an accident on the Bruce Highway and a whopping one in three people are dissatisfied or extremely dissatisfied with the nation’s longest route, a new survey has revealed. HAVE YOUR SAY

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A truck blocks the Bruce Hwy between Rockhampton and Mackay.

‘A lot of diesel’: Call for witnesses, footage after truck blocks Bruce Hwy

A truck rolled, spilling diesel and completely blocking the Bruce Hwy between Rockhampton and Mackay for several hours. Now, police are calling for dash cam footage. UPDATES, VIDEO.

Traffic and roadworks pictured on the Bruce Highway between Caboolture and Elimbah, Brisbane 20th December 2022. (Image/Josh Woning)

Hour-long Bruce Hwy delays after five-vehicle crash

Motorists headed to the Sunshine Coast are facing up to 60-minute delays ahead of peak-hour with the Bruce Highway and Gateway Motorway reeling after a four-vehicle and motorbike crash.

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An aerial photo shows the devastating scene in which at least three people have died in a five vehicle crash on the Bruce Highway near Maryborough. MUST CREDIT pics by Michael O'connor

Govt says intersection where three died in fireball horror ‘safe’

Furious residents have demanded major upgrades to the Bruce Highway after a triple fatality at a notorious intersection. But the State Government has denied it is dangerous. What do you think? VOTE IN OUR POLL

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The scenes of two horror crashes on the Bruce Highway near Maryborough.

‘Every fatal crash I’ve been to is the result of driver error’

The Bruce Highway is one of the most unforgiving roads and we need to keep investing to make it safer, but we also need to be much better drivers, writes Carlie Walker, who has been to more fatal accidents than most of us.

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VideoPolice & Courts

Connie-Lee Williams was convicted of dangerous driving causing death and drug offences following a crash which took the life of her husband and five-year-old child.

Qld’s deadliest stretch of the Bruce Highway revealed

The same stretch of road which where a former medic’s valiant attempt to save the life of a woman after her vehicle plunged off a bridge has been named the deadliest in Queensland. SPECIAL REPORT

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