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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1978

8 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Road is good

The Bananacoast Opinion · Wednesday 11 January 1978 · page 19

The road from Coramba to Ulong should be in first class condition by next weekend. Coffs Harbour Shire Council has had a task…

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Advisory Council Seeks Fuel Tax to Replace Road Maintenance Tax

The Bananacoast Opinion · Wednesday 18 January 1978 · page 21

Replacement of a road maintenance tax by a fuel tax could help conserve fuel and cause less wear of roads. This is the claim of the transport committee of the North Coast Regional Advisory Council. Members said that…

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New Bush Roads

The Bananacoast Opinion · Wednesday 15 March 1978 · page 13

More than 13 km of roads and logging tracks will be built in the Wild Cattle Creek…

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Highways to Become Priority Roads

The Bananacoast Opinion · Wednesday 12 April 1978 · page 1

Every major highway on the North Coast will become a priority road within the next couple of months, the district traffic superintendent, Sgt. Fred Hyland, said in Lismore last week…

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Nrma Hits at Lack of Funds for Roads

The Bananacoast Opinion · Wednesday 28 June 1978 · page 14

Roads are the national [?] of the 1970s and, at the present rate of improvement, are likely to remain so in the 1980s In both metropolitan and country areas…

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Motorists were booked, but they soon got the message

The Bananacoast Opinion · Wednesday 5 July 1978 · page 24

Parking, or the lack of it, the perennial problem facing shoppers in Coffs Harbour,…

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Motorists get life-saver

The Bananacoast Opinion · Wednesday 9 August 1978 · page 14

ADAC, the five-and-a-half million-member Munich based motoring organisation, has issued a kiss-of-life artificial respiration mask in bright yellow plastic to mark the club’s seventy-fifth anniversary. The mask…

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DMR should pay for Horror Road

The Bananacoast Opinion · Wednesday 18 October 1978 · page 6

Foods for upgrading the notorious Coramba to Ulong Road, Main Road 120, should be…

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