Tweed gets $1.6m to improve seven shire roads

16 August 2017

Federal Government Roads to Recovery grants announced

Tweed Shire Council has secured $1.6 million from the Federal Government’s Roads to Recovery Programme to improve seven roads in the shire this financial year. The grants include:

  • $500,000 for full-depth asphalt pavement replacement on north and southbound carriageways of Darlington Drive between Sexton Hill Drive and Leisure Drive, Banora Point

  • $400,000 to raise Numinbah Road at Pat Smiths causeway, Numinbah, and replace the existing causeway with a box culvert crossing

  • $350,000 to upgrade Gray Street, Tumbulgum, east of Bawden Street by constructing a new stormwater drainage system throughout, installing kerb and gutter on both sides of the road and then rehabilitating the road surface

  • $150,000 to stabilise and reseal the road pavement of the intersection of Fraser Drive and Leisure Drive, Banora Point

  • $101,000 to replace a failed culvert on Blackwoods Road, Nobbys Creek, before rehabilitating and resealing that section of road, and

  • $100,000 to stabilise and reseal the road pavement of Cabarita Road, between Oleander and Poinciana avenues, Bogangar, and

All the projects are currently being designed and scheduled. Residents are advised to read Road Wrap in Tweed Link each week for the latest construction start dates and to be aware of possible delays if travelling in these areas.

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