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Bruce Highway upgrade south of Ingham

Bruce Highway upgrade south of Ingham

Overview:: Upgrade of the Bruce Highway from Tokalon Road to Lannercost Street, on the southern approach to Ingham.
Location:: Bruce Highway from Tokalon Road to Lannercost Street on the southern approach to Ingham.
Benefits:: Reduce the number of direct and side-street accesses to the Bruce Highway in order to improve safety and traffic flow into the future.
Supplier:: Ingham Alliance, formed between Main Roads, the design company (Maunsell AECOM Pty Ltd) and the construction company (BMD Constructions Pty Ltd).
Funding:: Part of the federal government's $220 Million accelerated upgrade package for the Bruce Highway (Townsville to Cairns).

Project info

The upgrade includes the following features:

Two lanes for through traffic, with a centre right-turn lane on some sections and protected right-turn lanes and left-turn deceleration lanes on others. It will have wider shoulders than the existing highway.
Traffic lights at the McIlwraith and Lannercost Street intersections.
Service roads, three on the eastern and one on the western side of the Highway, reducing the number of direct and side-street accesses to the Bruce Highway in order to improve safety and traffic flow into the future.

Key milestones

The current proposed timing of the project is:

October–December 2006: stakeholder and community consultation regarding concept plan
February 2007: detailed design begins
August 2007: construction begins
December 2008: construction completed.

Further information

The Ingham Connection update 1: September 2007 (PDF, 182 KB)
The Ingham Connection update 2: December 2007 (PDF, 980 KB)
The Ingham Connection update 3: April 2008 (PDF, 812 KB)
The Ingham Connection update 4: August 2008 (PDF, 385 KB)
Notice to Motorists: temporary relocation of coach stops (PDF, 1.10 MB)
Traffic notice: temporary change of B-Double route (PDF, 115 KB)

Contact details

Email:	mary@balfourconsulting.com.au
Phone:	+61 7 4771 4805

Community info

Public consultation and public displays were carried out in November and December 1996 and in 2001. All feedback from the earlier consultation programs was taken into consideration when developing the new 2006 concept plan. Public displays were held in November 2006, and an outline of the proposed upgrade and concept plan was inserted in the local newspaper. Main Roads has analysed the feedback and modified the plan where possible.