Northern Australia Beef Roads Program is a suite of projects designed to deliver targeted upgrades to key roads for transporting cattle in northern Australia. In 2016 the Australian Government announced 18 projects to be funded under this program. This program is separate to the Northern Australia Roads Program, also announced in 2016, which contains a further 20 projects.[1]
Funding and program status edit
Funding by the Australian Government is up to 80% of total costs, with the remainder being met by state, territory and local governments. The initial funding allocation by the Australian Government was $100 million, most of which has now (in April 2022) been expended on the identified projects, most of which have been completed or are nearing completion.[1]
Type of work edit
The work undertaken includes road widening, sealing and pavement renewal.[1]
Projects edit
The roads involved in the 18 projects are listed below.[1]
Queensland edit
- Road Network, Rockhampton, covering parts of:
- Capricorn Highway
- Bruce Highway
- Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road (Yaamba Road, Musgrave Street, Queen Elizabeth Drive)
- Rockhampton-Emu Park Road (Bridge Street, Lakes Creek Road, Emu Park Road)
- Burke Developmental Road (2 projects)
- Clermont-Alpha Road (3 projects)
- Ootann Road (2 projects)
- Gregory Developmental Road
- Richmond-Croydon Road (2 projects)
- Cloncurry-Dajarra Road
- Diamantina Developmental Road
- Richmond-Winton Road (2 projects)
Northern Territory edit
Western Australia edit
Project details edit
Project details have been included in each wikipedia article.
White Paper on Developing Northern Australia edit
The Northern Australia Beef Roads Program is part of the White Paper on Developing Northern Australia, a $600 million commitment to upgrade high priority roads in northern Australia.[2]
Parliamentary report edit
The Parliament of Australia has produced a report on transport infrastructure that includes extensive details of the Northern Australia Beef Roads Program, among others.[3]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Northern Australia Roads Program and Northern Australia Beef Roads Program". Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. 28 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ "Northern Australia Roads Program". Regional Development Australia. 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ "Chapter 3 Transport infrastructure". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 27 September 2022.