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Subscriber only Works on the Mackay Northern Access Upgrade project will cause traffic delays with motorists urged to plan their trip around reduced speed limits and lane closures. The Department of Transport and Main Roads advised night works would be undertaken on the Bruce Highway between Ron Camm Bridge and Gooseponds Bridge, and Phillip St to Bald Hill Rd. The works were scheduled to start on Monday, February 22, and run through to Friday, February 26. Single lane closures and temporary reduced speed limits will be in place, TMR advised. Delays are expected, please allow extra time. Please observe all signage and drive to conditions.
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Subscriber only Workers will begin night work along the Bruce Highway from Monday to Friday as part of the Mackay Northern Access Upgrade project. The work will take place from the Ron Camm Bridge to Gooseponds Bridge and Phillip St to Bald Hill Rd from 6pm to 6am. Lane closures and reduced speed limits will be in place. Please allow extra travel time, obey all signage and drive according to conditions.
One of Mackay’s fastest growing sports could be squeezed out of its current location in the name of progress but there’s a glimmer of hope for a workaround.
The Mackay Touch Association’s three showcase fields could be resumed as Stage 2 of the Mackay Ring Road project gets under way.
The 9.5km, two-lane road would connect the Bruce Highway to the Port of Mackay, with the earmarked route running along the existing rail line at the back of the touch fields near Norris Rd in North Mackay.
MTA president Jason Miller said the early identified project boundaries cut into the existing fields, as well as the neighbouring PCYC block.