Repair works on Gympie s Normanby Bridge are already causing traffic mayhem. Photos: Josh Preston
Other roads have not been much better, according to
Gympie Times online readers.
Ruth Griffin: “Southside yesterday afternoon was totally a mess (people) coming from town just crawling along ones trying to get in medical centre stuck trying to turn right, what a shambles.”
Nicki Maree: “Yes massive pain in the butt. I have Stewart Tce bridge and now Normanby overpass both on my route every morning and arvo. Fun times.”
Kaylah Smith-crossley: “It was an absolute nightmare today. Now going to have to change our whole routine.”
UPDATE: Normanby Bridge will not be closed to traffic for the three months it takes to rebuild the Normanby overpass, as originally reported, but it will be closed to traffic coming off or going on to Hughes Terrace. A brochure outlining the $2.9 million project and delivered to impacted residents states Bruce Highway traffic will travel around the work site via the on off ramps either side of the highway. Motorists wishing to travel from Hughes Terrace on to Gympie Brooloo Road and vice versa will need to take an alternate route either via Kidd Bridge and Power Road, or alternatively travelling south on the Bruce Highway and crossing Mary Valley Link Road.
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It has been a horror year on Queensland roads in 2020, and the Gympie region has been no exception.
260 people have died in 235 fatal crashes across the state to December 13, according to the Queensland Road Crash Weekly Report.
Those numbers are up a staggering 21.5 per cent and 22.4 per cent respectively on the statistics from this time last year.
We remember the 13 people who died on Gympie region roads this year, and will not be coming home to spend Christmas with their loved ones.
A 28-year-old Gympie man was one of two people killed in an horrific single-vehicle crash at Capella on Monday night, police revealed.