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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. ....
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. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only Byron Shire mayor Simon Richardson will be stepping down from his role in local government at the end of April. Cr Richardson had already announced he would not recontest his position on the council at the election this September. Council elections were earlier scheduled for last year, and this would have marked the end of his time on the council, but they were delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But in a post on social media, the mayor has announced he would end his time in the role on April 30. Nationals MLC Ben Franklin and Byron mayor Simon Richardson at the opening of the Byron Bay Bypass on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Picture: Liana Boss ....
It s not going to change the world, Cr Richardson said. It s not going to change the traffic in a way that allows us to now cruise down and remember the 80s, but what it will do is allow locals to get around town. For me, it s a locals road. It s not going to turn us back decades but it will make a difference. Nationals MLC Ben Franklin and Byron mayor Simon Richardson at the opening of the Byron Bay Bypass on Saturday, February 27, 2021. Picture: Liana Boss The project was funded for $24 million, $20 million of which came from the state government, the rest from council. ....
It's been a milestone over 30 years in the making and today the Byron Bay Bypass project officially opened to traffic. NSW Parliamentary Secretary for. ....