Northern Australia Beef Roads Program

Northern Australia Beef Roads Program is a suite of projects designed to deliver targeted upgrades to key roads for transporting cattle in northern Australia. In 2016 the Australian Government announced 18 projects to be funded under this program. This program is separate to the Northern Australia Roads Program, also announced in 2016, which contains a further 20 projects.[1]

Funding and program status

Funding by the Australian Government is up to 80% of total costs, with the remainder being met by state, territory and local governments. The initial funding allocation by the Australian Government was $100 million, most of which has now (in April 2022) been expended on the identified projects, most of which have been completed or are nearing completion.

Type of work

The work undertaken includes road widening, sealing and pavement renewal.

Projects

The roads involved in the 18 projects are listed below.

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

Project details

Where there is an article about a road the project details have been included therein. For roads with no article the details are shown below.

Road train access to Rockhampton (stage 2)

The project for upgrading between Gracemere saleyards and the Rockhampton abattoirs to provide access for Type 1 Road Trains was completed by early 2021 at a total cost of $30 million.[2] It involved about 29 kilometres (18 mi) of road improvements on four roads:

  • Capricorn Highway - from Saleyards Road at Gracemere to the Bruce Highway roundabout at Rochhampton (7.7 kilometres (4.8 mi)).
  • Bruce Highway - from the Capricorn Highway roundabout to the Yaamba Road intersection (8.3 kilometres (5.2 mi)).
  • Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road - from the Bruce Highway intersection south-west to the Emu Park Road intersection (2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi).
  • Rockhampton-Emu Park Road - from the Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road intersection to St Christophers Chapel Road at Nerimbera (10.2 kilometres (6.3 mi)).

See also

References
  1. "Northern Australia Roads Program and Northern Australia Beef Roads Program". Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. 28 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  2. "Rockhampton Road Network - Road Train Access". Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development andg Communications. 8 April 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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