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Motorists may soon notice new electronic signs along the Bruce Highway travelling between the Mackay and the Whitsundays.
It is part of a $56 million statewide Bruce Highway Road Operations Improvement Project to install Intelligent Transport Systems including at 81 locations across the Mackay Whitsundays district.
A Department of Transport and Main Roads spokesman said the systems would minimise challenges from weather events and other unplanned incidents. Water over the Bruce Highway, south of Goorganga Plains after heavy rains fell across Mackay and the Whitsundays, 2011. Photo Lee Constable
“CCTV, flood warning and Bluetooth detection systems will be used to monitor conditions and issues which will report back to road users through electronic signage,” the spokesman said.