Up to 50 people could be entitled to compensation after bitumen on a recently resurfaced road in far north Queensland melted around car tyres, causing traffic chaos and damage to vehicles.
The Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) was forced to close the Malanda Millaa Millaa Road near Tarzali on the Atherton Tablelands yesterday and undertake emergency repairs after receiving several complaints.
Hi K.J., From the Brisbane Times, I understand there have been issues involving caravanners, but nothing specific. Maybe they have been delayed or prevented from travelling across from Malanda to Millaa via Tarzali. There is another road but it involves a detour via Longmans Gap and a turn to the left before Ravenshoe, after Evelyn Central hall.
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It looks like they (TMR) have covered all bases by blaming the cold weather, wet weather and finally a heatwave. If you have been to the tablelands you will know it's classed as a temperate area ( Mareeba is a few degrees different) and being winter I very much doubt the heatwave. The most likely culprit is how the batch was prepared.
Hetho, the photo might be questionable but the event isn't. This isn't a case of blacktop melting but rather a case of either
incorrect procedures or incorrect mixes for the weather. BIL worked roads in and around the Burnett and Wide Bay area throughout the 1990s-2010 for both Main Roads and contractors, and he tells stories just like this one.
I think you will find the drivers keep going till they got to hard ground and stoped that why the tar on the road is hard not soft ad the soft tar is running down from the wheels on to a hard surface .
