❓ A WA parliamentary question addresses concerns about the unsealed road between Marble Bar, Nullagine, and Newman, focusing on vehicle maintenance costs, road grading, and the possibility of sealing the road due to its importance for local communities and resource transport.
AnsweredQoN 6815Legislative Assembly
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Regarding the unsealed road from Marble Bar to Nullagine and on to Newman;
(a) is the Minister aware of complaints from truck drivers who are spending upwards of $1,500 per week on vehicle maintenance due to the harsh toll exacted on their vehicles while daily traversing the corrugations and wash outs along this route;
(b) will the Minister direct immediate improvements to the grading along this road and if not, why not; and
(c) following the roll-over on this road in recent weeks, will the Minister take steps to investigate the sealing of this important inland route which, as well as servicing the needs of local towns and communities, also links a number of major royalty producing resource sites to the larger inland towns of the Pilbara and on to the coast?
(a) is the Minister aware of complaints from truck drivers who are spending upwards of $1,500 per week on vehicle maintenance due to the harsh toll exacted on their vehicles while daily traversing the corrugations and wash outs along this route;
(b) will the Minister direct immediate improvements to the grading along this road and if not, why not; and
(c) following the roll-over on this road in recent weeks, will the Minister take steps to investigate the sealing of this important inland route which, as well as servicing the needs of local towns and communities, also links a number of major royalty producing resource sites to the larger inland towns of the Pilbara and on to the coast?
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Answered
21 February 2012
Responded by
Minister for Transport
Response time
90 days
Main Roads WA advises:
(a) Main Roads hasrecently received complaints from two truck drivers carting gravel from Nullagine to the Millennium Minerals' "Golden Eagle" gold mine located about 10km south of Nullagine.
(b) The maintenance and improvement schedule is continuing.
(c) Main Roads have undertaken a preliminary assessment of the requirements to seal this road.In 2011/12 $1.5m has been provided for gravel resheeting the worst sections of the Marble Bar Road and $3m to improve the Kalgan River flood crossing.
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(a) Main Roads hasrecently received complaints from two truck drivers carting gravel from Nullagine to the Millennium Minerals' "Golden Eagle" gold mine located about 10km south of Nullagine.
(b) The maintenance and improvement schedule is continuing.
(c) Main Roads have undertaken a preliminary assessment of the requirements to seal this road.In 2011/12 $1.5m has been provided for gravel resheeting the worst sections of the Marble Bar Road and $3m to improve the Kalgan River flood crossing.
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