Premium Content The completion of a new bus stop has marked a transformative step for Byron Bay. The new Byron Bay bus interchange, on Butler St, cost $8.4 million, 50 jobs were involved in its construction and it will take hundreds of buses off Jonson St, member of the Legislative Council and parliamentary secretary for energy and the arts Ben Franklin said when he officially opened the facility on Monday. Mr Franklin, who was representing Regional Transport and Roads Minister Paul Toole at the opening, applauded the end result of the interchange, which follows the completion of the Byron Bay Bypass, which opened in February after 30 years of planning, and the award-winning changes to Railway Park.
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Subscriber only It has been a long road to this point, but the Byron Bay Bypass is expected to open this month. Byron Shire Council s client representative for the bypass, Josh Winter, said contractor Hazell Bros completed the bulk of works at the end of January but there are minor outstanding works to go through and tidy up . Mr Winter said the project had a lot of challenges . It s definitely been a challenging project, Mr Winter said. We started the project with protesters on site which delayed the start of the project. Police and protesters clashed at the Byron Bay bypass site in mid-2019.
Work has begun on the first stage of the Northern Roads Package, a $55 million project to provide a more efficient route for freight vehicles travelling.