Why isn’t Main Roads upgrading the existing highway?
TMR has thoroughly investigated the option of upgrading the existing Bruce Highway through Ingham, but this is not a viable option due to the potential impacts of raising the highway to meet the desired flood immunity standard. Such impacts included increasing flooding of nearby properties upstream, resuming some on-street parking and parts of Rotary Park for construction purposes, as well as restricting direct access to business premises. Furthermore, options to upgrade through town did not address the safety issues associated with the current mix of local traffic, through traffic and pedestrians nor the need to improve traffic flow for current and future traffic volumes. The option to upgrade the highway north of the John Row Bridge through to the Cardwell Range was also discounted. Attempting to construct a new highway on the existing highway under traffic would greatly increase the time and cost of construction, and result in significant local and regional traffic delays over a lon
