Go Between Bridge Toll Cut to $1.50 Until 2011

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has cut the $2.70 one way toll for the Go Between Bridge to $1.50 until next year as a result of a $42 million saving by Council in construction costs.

Cr Newman said the toll would rise to $2.00 for six months until 30 June 2011. The toll would then rise to...

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Go Between Bridge Spans River

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman’s Go Between Bridge now spans the Brisbane River after the final section of concrete was poured on the bridge deck today.

Cr Newman said the 300 metre long deck for the bridge, which links Milton and South Brisbane, actually consisted of two separate decks...

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Scrub Rd Delivered on Time & Under Budget

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has delivered on another major suburban road project with the completion of the $6.7 million Scrub Road extension project in Brisbane’s east.

The project, another in the Lord Mayor’s Road Action Program to improve safety, accessibility and congestion, wa...

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More Traffic Response Units to Tackle Congestion

Deputy Mayor Graham Quirk has launched the latest model of Traffic Response Units (TRUs) to help clear accidents and reduce traffic congestion on Brisbane roads.

Dubbed the TRU Max, the two new trucks are fitted with innovative technology not used in any other state in Australia that...

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State Should Learn From Council

A DAMNING report into the Bligh Government’s handling of traffic congestion has said the State Government should learn a thing or two from the Brisbane City Council.

In a report to Queensland Parliament, State Auditor-General Glenn Poole found South East Queensland’s urban transpo...

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CLEM7 Tunnelling Reaches Its End

Tunnelling for the CLEM7 between Bowen Hills and Woolloongabba is complete after the second Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) broke through at the southern end this morning.

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said it took ‘Matilda’, the 4000-tonne, $50 million TBM, almost 18 months to bore a ho...

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Hale Street Link Bridge One Year On

Work on the Hale Street Link bridge has been going for a year, bringing Brisbane a step closer to reduced traffic congestion, Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said today.

The $370 million project is one of the Lord Mayor’s major ‘TransApex’ bridge and tunnel projects, designed to crea...

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Northern Link Ramps Ruled Out For Toowong

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has officially ruled out Toowong connections for the Northern Link tunnel.

The decision means that Northern Link will now run straight through from the Western Freeway to the Inner City Bypass, with no exit or entry points in between.
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Clem7 breaks through at Kangaroo Point

The Clem7 Tunnel has reached a major milestone, with the first Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) completing its journey under the Brisbane River.
 
The $50 million TBM, known as Florence, today drilled through the last of the rock beneath Main Street at Kangaroo Point with its 12.4m rota...

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Lord Mayor calls for river safety solutions

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has met with key maritime stakeholders
this afternoon in an effort to improve safety on the Brisbane River.

Cr Newman said Monday's collision between a CityCat and a rowing
scull at West End was a timely reminder of the dangers associated with
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