Notorious Queensland roads to be fixed with new $17.4m blackspot funds

New funding has been announced to improve 31 roads at known crash sites from South East Queensland to north of Townsville. SEE THE FULL LIST

A crash at the intersection of Channon and Duke Street Gympie. Photo Patrick Woods / The Gympie Times

New funding has been announced to improve 31 roads at known crash sites from South East Queensland to north of Townsville.

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a $17.4 million investment to the Black Spot Program in Logan on Friday.

Among the roads are Duke Street in Gympie, Windermere Road in Bundaberg, Hein Road in Buccan and Railway Street in Stanthorpe.

“In order to have a strong national economy we’ve got to invest in strong local communities like this one in the outer suburbs of our major cities and towns,” Mr Chalmers said.

“This is all about making sure today that we are investing in the kinds of local roads that local communities need and deserve to stay safe and to prosper and to make that contribution to the national economy.

“We’re talking about millions of dollars in new investments in blackspot funding to make these local roads safer, so that people can get to and from school or work or running errands safely in our local communities.

Windermere Road in Bundaberg. Photo: Mike Knott / NewsMail

Federal Member for Blair and Chair of the Queensland Black Spot Consultative Panel, Shayne Neumann said they wanted to protect the lives of Queenslanders with sadly 290 people dying on the roads in the 12 months before March this year.

“We’ve increased the blackspot funding from over 24 million to over 26 million this year. And going forward over the forward estimates from 110 million to 150 million,” he said.

“That’s a demonstration of our commitment as a government to investing in local areas like Logan so from the Lockyer Valley to Logan from Moreton Bay, to Brisbane from the Cassowary Coast to Townsville to Toowoomba.

“Funding is being undertaken here from local projects that people have nominated and gone through that selection process, highest risk intersection changes, making sure that we put roundabouts and traffic lights and right hand turns.

“And a whole bunch of other improvements that will make a difference to people protecting lives on our local roads.”

Originally published as Notorious Queensland roads to be fixed with new $17.4m blackspot funds