The Department of Transport and Main Roads performs repairs on recently completed work on the Toowoomba Cecil Plains Road

A resident has slammed the ‘very poor quality’ repair of a major rural road that is now being repaired for a second time in as many months.

A resident is upset about the poor quality of road repairs done on the Toowoomba Cecil Plains Road at Evanslea.

The Department of Transport and Main Roads is undertaking repairs on a section of the Toowoomba Cecil Plains Road a month after another set of repairs was completed.

Residents along the road around the Evanslea section, where repairs are once again being performed, are upset with the quality the original repair job.

A Department of Transport and Main Roads spokesman said the repairs in the Evanslea area were completed in March and focused on reshaping the surface to a depth of 20cm to “improve rideability”.

“The road is just packing up real bad, it’s very poor quality,” one resident, who did not wish to be named, said.

“When you’re driving down the road at night from even, from 15km from here, coming home at night you can see all the bumps on the road in the headlights,” they said.

A resident is upset about the poor quality of road repairs done on the Toowoomba Cecil Plains Road at Evanslea.

“You feel most of the joins where they’ve joined it. They might do a stretch of a few meters and where they start you can see it and you can feel the bump in the suspension and when you go off the other end you feel it.

“That wouldn’t be allowed down in Brisbane.”

A Department of Transport and Main Roads spokesman blamed “recent prolonged wet weather” which had “affected the road base” as the cause of the issues with the road, noting that the sections in question “are located on a flood plain”.

But that didn’t wash with the resident.

“It’s on a slight rise, it wasn’t flooded. The water would have run down there.

“It packed up that quick that I don’t accept that at all.”

The department has programmed repairs to be completed next month (May), weather permitting.

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