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December 21st, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda RACQ slams Bruce Highway
THE Bruce Highway between Cairns and Townsville will continue to flood and there are still sections of high crash risk, according to a report released yesterday.
Motoring body, the RACQ, called for urgent works to improve the region’s main highway from the south to stop flooding during the wet season and to improve black spots.
The report details assessments made by the RACQ’s road safety engineers, who drove the length of the Bruce Highway from Cairns to Brisbane as part of the motoring club’s annual regional road tours program and calls for:
Additional southern lanes into Cairns and duplication of the Edmonton to Gordonvale stretch to reduce congestion.
Higher level bridges and approaches to Cattle and Frances creeks and the Gairloch floodway to Ripple Creek.
Reducing the number of intersections with direct access to the Bruce Highway to improve safety.
RACQ senior traffic and safety engineer Greg Miszkowycz said flooding was still an issue on the highway, despite this year’s repairs and reconstruction works with natural disaster relief money.
“The disaster relief funding has provided an opportunity to reconstruct the highway and improve resilience to future flood damage,” he said.
“But the funding does not extend to raising the level of the roadway, which means parts of the Bruce Highway are likely to be cut or flood damaged again, as early as this summer.”
The report revealed sections of the highway were still of substandard design with narrow lanes and shoulders, a lack of overtaking lanes and dangerous roadside objects posing a serious risk to motorists.
The damning report comes as the State Government released a 20-year plan to upgrade the national highway.
Local Government Minister Paul Lucas was in Cairns to launch the Bruce Highway Upgrade strategy yesterday, saying the ultimate goal was for the highway to have four lanes between Cairns and Gympie.
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