ROAD WORKS

Mailman Rd to Killymoon Creek project — $44 million.

Includes road widening and the installation of a 1m wide centre line treatment to improve traffic separation and reduce the risk of collisions.

Haughton River Floodplain Upgrade project — $514 million.

Replace the Horseshoe Lagoon, Pink Lily and Haughton River bridges with new, wider, higher-level bridges;

Build new crossings of Healeys Lagoon and the Reed Beds curve upgrade 13.5km of the Bruce Highway (on approach to, and between the bridges), in some areas on a new alignment;

Construct two highway overpasses of open-level cane tramway crossings, removing interactions between highway and cane traffic;

Upgrade rural intersections within the project area to improve safety;

Install wide centre line treatments (similar to other, recent Bruce Highway projects) to increase the distance between oncoming lanes of traffic and reduce the risk of head-on collisions.

Bluewater — $20.4 million.

Widening of Bruce Highway between Deep and Bluewater creeks and between Two Mile and Sleeper Log creeks.

Paluma State Forest at Bambaroo — $24.42 million

Widening of the Bruce Highway and a new, expanded centre line treatment.

Bruce Highway intersections north of Townsville to be upgraded from late this year include Catastis Rd, Scrubview Rd, Jourama Falls Rd and Yuruga Rd.