Absolutely agree with you there Gazz. You can actually go lower than that and say from Gympie. I live slightly inland from all those towns. better to take some of the back country roads and have an enjoyable drive.
They dont do any work at a lot of those stops on Sundays, we got through surprisingly quickly on a Sunday. The roadworks continue south right into NSW too... looking forward to it all being finished. I can remember when the Hume was like this, now its (mostly) a good wide highway.
I've noticed that a lot of the work between Mackay and Proserpine (and maybe elsewhere too) appears to be constructing more passing lanes, something much needed on the Bruce.
I think they are trying to upgrade the whole of Route no 1 - they are working on the Princes Hwy in NSW south of Sydney. Big road works bypassing Tilba at Victoria Creek are progressing well.
Just travelled from Mackay to Redcliffe , lots of hold up from Gladstone to to south of Gympie , Very slow run if you could I would travell inland , Lots of hold ups but well controlled
But there are a lot of bumps on the New England Highway! Every time we stopped today I found more things out of place or on the floor - never had the problem as bad as we have had it since getting new springs on the old lady. I think our problem is not enough people living in Australia to pay for all our road network.
