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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1093 Gender:	Re: Rockhampton Ring Road Reply #30 - Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:18pm Fears of the Gold coast M1 construction crew moving enmass to Rocky creating a housing crisis is unfounded. I'm sure housing for 3 blokes, a truck towing a backhoe and 7 dogs ( all called Bruce) will be sourced.
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Reply #31 - Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:22pm

Daves2017 wrote on Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:18pm:

I'm told the Qld state government is going to prioritise the ring road once they have completed they complete the 8 KLm M1 upgrade on the southern Gold coast.
Current ETA is Christmas - 2038.

Scomoo was totally right, we do make things in Australia !

Very, very, very slowly and of truly poor quality and 300 X over the cost that should be paid

If the Qld State government takes until 2038 to get this Ring Road done, then we need a new state government. However, I have witnessed evidence that the Ring Road is progressing nicely. I was wrong about the Qld state government not doing enough. Watch my video of the Wandal to Ridgelands. They were doing enough to progress that third bridge. I would say that by June next year, we should be able to see that bridge completed. The entire project should be completed by November, 2025.

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Reply #32 - Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:25pm

Daves2017 wrote on Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:18pm:

Fears of the Gold coast M1 construction crew moving enmass to Rocky creating a housing crisis is unfounded.

I'm sure housing for 3 blokes, a truck towing a backhoe and 7 dogs ( all called Bruce) will be sourced.

There are plenty of houses available in Gracemere to rent. I would be quite happy for a housemate at my place to help with the rent and looking after the home. Hopefully, Mum would be happy with her living with me.

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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1093 Gender:	Re: Rockhampton Ring Road Reply #33 - Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:28pm The M1 extension from Burleigh heads to Currumbin is now into its fifth year and showing no signs of being completed this decade. Its one of the reasons why giggles needs to go. The management of the project is equally poor as that seen in the Commonwealth Games build And that was worse than pathetic.
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25012 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Rockhampton Ring Road Reply #34 - Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:37pm The Rockhampton Regional Council took 2 years to do an excellent job on constructing the 4 lane highway section of Parkhurst. It certainly does not need 14 years to complete the construction of the RRR.
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Reply #35 - Aug 12^th, 2024 at 10:15pm

Didn't appreciate it was a council project ?
I thought the state government covered all council roads and maintenance?
Exactly the opposite of NSW. Home to the largest population in Australia and the highest taxed with the most substandard road network.
Any chance your local council road crew could come down to the Gold coast and help speed things up ( pun intended) ?
Matty, Chris and Marcus can obviously use a bit of help.

The seven dogs are friendly.

It's unbelievable that such a major project on the states major highway can take so long.

Throw the current contactor away giggles and hire someone who is going employ a decent size crew at the job.

It's another example of Labor pathetic management

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Reply #36 - Aug 13^th, 2024 at 12:02am

The reason Chinese road construction contractors are not allowed to operate in Australia is that Australian industry would be humiliated by the efficiency, low cost, and speed of construction by the Chinese.

Even a km or two of Australian suburban roads built by Australian contractors takes a decade to finish because the longer it takes the more money the people associated with the project make.

Australian society needs innovation, new ideas, and visionaries.

Australia is heading nowhere at breakneck speed and will eventually hit the wall where even doing nothing will become too laborious and uneconomic.

Australia could not finish a project like "China's Longest Highway in The Middle of The Ocean" in several million years which would not even start in Australia until there had been several decades-long debates before the final go ahead.

Yes, even the pro and con debaters make money by delaying the projects.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25012 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Rockhampton Ring Road Reply #37 - Aug 13^th, 2024 at 12:57am Can someone bring some smelling salts and a heater for the revival of the gang from "Cool Hand Luke"? The managed to get a road constructed in a day.
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Reply #38 - Aug 13^th, 2024 at 8:10pm

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 13^th, 2024 at 12:02am:

The reason Chinese road construction contractors are not allowed to operate in Australia is that Australian industry would be humiliated by the efficiency, low cost, and speed of construction by the Chinese.

Even a km or two of Australian suburban roads built by Australian contractors takes a decade to finish because the longer it takes the more money the people associated with the project make.

Australian society needs innovation, new ideas, and visionaries.

I hate it when I agree with you
Australia is heading nowhere at breakneck speed and will eventually hit the wall where even doing nothing will become too laborious and uneconomic.

Australia could not finish a project like "China's Longest Highway in The Middle of The Ocean" in several million years which would not even start in Australia until there had been several decades-long debates before the final go ahead.

Yes, even the pro and con debaters make money by delaying the projects.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25012 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Rockhampton Ring Road Reply #39 - Aug 14^th, 2024 at 10:54am Have you got an opinion on the matter, dave?
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Laugh till you cry Gold Member Offline Posts: 16619 In your happy place Gender:	Re: Rockhampton Ring Road Reply #40 - Aug 14^th, 2024 at 11:48am UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 10:54am: Have you got an opinion on the matter, dave? Dave might fear being labeled an 'antiheterophobe'.
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Reply #41 - Aug 14^th, 2024 at 11:51am

Recently, we have just had a recent downpour of about 160mm in the last 2 days. Roads have been flooded for the first time in the last 6 months. Considering the unseasonal weather conditions, we Rockhamptonites are likely to see an increase in physical weathering on our roads. I can imagine driving around in areas where the roads have been washed away. I am going to have to go and clean the gutters of my section of road, to make sure that there is no impediment to the drainage system brought about by future flooding rainfall, expected in the coming months.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25012 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Rockhampton Ring Road Reply #42 - Aug 14^th, 2024 at 11:52am Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 11:48am: UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 10:54am: Have you got an opinion on the matter, dave? Dave might fear being labeled an 'antiheterophobe'. That is something people would never label you.
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Reply #43 - Aug 15^th, 2024 at 3:57pm

Daves2017 wrote on Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:28pm:

The M1 extension from Burleigh heads to Currumbin is now into its fifth year and showing no signs of being completed this decade.

Its one of the reasons why giggles needs to go.

The management of the project is equally poor as that seen in the Commonwealth Games build
And that was worse than pathetic.

Who are you kidding? I moved to the GC in 2004 and they were doing roadworks on the M1 near Mudgeraba when I moved there. I moved out of the GC in 2022 and they were still doing work on the M1. There was never a year where they weren't. It might have moved up and down a few exits, but there was ALWAYS roadworks there.

They will never finish, no matter who is in govt.. They keep building for the current population, but by the time it's finished what they've done is already unable to cope with the population growth experienced during the build time.

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Reply #44 - Aug 15^th, 2024 at 4:32pm

John Smith wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 3:57pm:

Who are you kidding? I moved to the GC in 2004 and they were doing roadworks on the M1 near Mudgeraba when I moved there. I moved out of the GC in 2022 and they were still doing work on the M1. There was never a year where they weren't. It might have moved up and down a few exits, but there was ALWAYS roadworks there.

They will never finish, no matter who is in govt.. They keep building for the current population, but by the time it's finished what they've done is already unable to cope with the population growth experienced during the build time.

I guess they will have to decentralise the southeast corner of Qld and have some of the residents there move up here and populate our emerging suburbs in Parkhurst and Glenlee.

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