Gladstone Regional Roads and Transport Group

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• Project story: Gladstone Regional Council, Turkey Beach Road south of Gladstone – safety improvements
• Regional Roads and Transport Group members
• Gladstone Regional Roads and Transport Group map
• Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme (TIDS) program details

Project story: Gladstone Regional Council, Turkey Beach Road south of Gladstone – safety improvements

Submitted by Adam Tull, Project Manager, Gladstone Regional Council.

Turkey Beach Road is an important council-controlled Local Road of Regional Significance. It is a two-way, single carriageway road that is approximately 22km long, which primarily provides access to the town of Turkey Beach (eastern extent) from the Bruce Highway (western extent). Turkey Beach Road is approximately 45km south of Gladstone.

The vertical and horizontal geometry of the road is generally poor with several intersections and property accesses located along the length of the road. Following a Road Safety Audit that identified several safety issues, TIDS funding within the
2023–24 and 2024–25 Gladstone RRTG works programs was allocated to implement the recommended safety improvements. During 2024–25, council’s internal construction crews successfully completed the remaining two realignment works packages identified as “R2” and “R3” within the design documentation. The “R1” and “R4” works had been completed in 2023–24.

The R2 and R3 works were scheduled to occur last, in 2024–25, noting that each of these packages required the acquisition of small parcels of land to enable improvements to the road geometry. The land acquisition triggered minor adjustments to fencing and property gates and council worked collaboratively with affected landowners to complete these adjustments. Once these arrangements were in place, works onsite proceeded and included:

• horizontal and vertical realignment
• shoulder widening
• improved roadside drainage and culvert capacity
• road resurfacing.

All works were performed by council internal construction crews who benefitted greatly from the opportunity to work on the one project for several months at a time, honing their technical skills in both planning and delivery of significant road improvements. These are skills very different to those required for basic road maintenance or resheeting projects.

Regional Roads and Transport Group members

• Gladstone Regional Council
• TMR Fitzroy District

Chair: Councillor Simon McClintock, Gladstone Regional Council 
Deputy Chair: Councillor Matt Burnett, Mayor, Gladstone Regional Council
Technical Committee Chair: Mark Francis, Gladstone Regional Council
Technical Committee Deputy Chair: Frans Krause, Gladstone Regional Council
Technical Coordinator: Gerard Read, GWR Civil Engineering Management
Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme 2024-25 Allocation: $1,094,186
Total number of projects: 2

Gladstone Regional Roads and Transport Group map.

Gladstone Regional Roads and Transport Group (RRTG) Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme (TIDS) program details

The following information lists the RRTG TIDS 2024–25 works program by local government, with the project name and the year-to-date TIDS expenditure.

Gladstone Regional Council

Project name	Expenditure
Turkey Beach Road, undertake safety improvements	$525,000
Round Hill Road, Oyster Creek to Murphy Road, rehabilitate pavement and safety improvements	$569,186