Coffs Coast Advocate

Rail duplication goes nowhere while pollies squabble

The $10 billion honey pot that may hold solution to North Coast Rail funding has politicians squabbling about who needs to...

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12th May 2017 10:05 AM

FEDERAL Infrastructure Minister Darren Chester at Landsborough Rail Station(second from right) with LNP members Andrew Wallace, Ted O'Brien (left) and Andrew Powell (far right).

Inland Rail won't be built in Darling Downs this year

CONSTRUCTION on the Inland Rail through the Darling Downs is not likely to happen this year, and funding for it in the...

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27th April 2017 3:04 PM

The federal government has awarded the first contracts on the inland rail project as Toowoomba looks to become a logistics hub. Photo Contributed

$18.36m Bruce Hwy works at Tiaro announced

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24th April 2017 7:04 AM

UPGRADE FOR SAFETY:P Crash investigators at the scene of a double fatality on the Bruce Highway near Tiaro on Easter Monday.

Opinion: This region needs more road funding now

Let's hope the Federal Transport Minister heeds the calls of his National Party colleague and does something about...

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18th April 2017 5:04 AM

Safer roads, safer cars, safer people: MP

"WE OWE it to ourselves and our loved ones to accept responsibility for our own actions every time we get behind the...

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13th April 2017 3:04 PM

Due to flooding to the north, holiday traffic is using the Coffs Coast as an escape route.

Indigenous participation sought in highway upgrade

THE project team for the Woolgoolga to Ballina section of the Pacific Hwy upgrade is encouraging Aboriginal participation...

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09th April 2017 9:04 AM

Union slams new Inland Rail office as 'expensive con'

THE opening of a new Toowoomba office for the government-backed Australian Rail Track Corporation has been labelled "an...

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16th March 2017 1:03 PM

Transport Minister Darren Chester (right), talks with ARTC's Rob McNamara and Groom MP John McVeigh.

Chester quiet on funding for Toowoomba Range tunnel

THE Turnbull Government still won’t confirm if it would fund a tunnel through the Toowoomba Range as part of the Inland...

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16th March 2017 5:03 AM

Highway upgrade - moving fast in our direction

Gympie's four-lane link to every major port in eastern Australia will be a reality next year.

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20th Feb. 2017 5:02 PM

TAKING SHAPE: Main Roads district director Stephen Mallows briefs Wide Bay MP Llew O'Brien.

New funding to develop Codes of Practice for safety standards

FEDERAL Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester has announced $350,000 of funding

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15th Feb. 2017 2:02 PM

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