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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1961

159 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 8

Road Safety Contest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 April 1961 · page 1

NEARLY one and a half million copies of a children’s road safety colouring competition booklet are being distributed by BP Australia Ltd. to assist the education of school children in safe road practice. The competition, the seventh in 12 years, was officially opened by the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr. Hubert…

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Cars Collide Near Molonglo Bridge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 April 1961 · page 5

On Sunday afternoon, at about 5 p.m., two cars “sideswiped” on the bend between the Queanbeyan…

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Road A Reminder Of Waggon Bullock Days

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 April 1961 · page 5

The section of the Braidwood captain’s Flat road within the Yarrowlumla shire Council , has been…

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Tourist Road Suggestion Not Accepted

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 April 1961 · page 1

Yarrowliunla Shire Council will not accede to a request from the Municipal Council…

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Bridge Road Is Heated

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 April 1961 · page 5

To avoid the danger of ice on roads a bridge in Basildon New Town, Essex (U.K.)has had electrical elements…

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Tourist Road Request Back To Shire

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 April 1961 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal’ Council, has. referred back to the Yarrowlumla, Shire Council, a request to have…

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Jerangle Road Criticised

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 May 1961 · page 6

The road from Captan’s Flat to Jerangle came under criticism in two letters received at a recent meeting of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council…

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Motorist Fined For Negligence

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 May 1961 · page 2

A young motorist whose Vehicle capsized in Uriarra Road on November 6 last year, was fined £10 on a…

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Man Road Plans Near Completion

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1961 · page 1

Design of the proposed new access route from Queanbeyan to Canberra will be completed shortly,…

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Work On “Flat” Road Deferred Temporarily

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1961 · page 7

Gravel re-sheeting work on the Queanbeyan-Captain’s Flat road, to be carried out under the Main Roads Maintenance Programme, has been…

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Safety Bureau Officer To Lecture School On Road Safety

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1961 · page 1

Queanbeyan’s Safety Bureau Patrol Officer, Constable C. McLachlan, will lecture Queanbeyan High School pupils on the dangers lurking for unwary cyclists at two intersections on the route to and from…

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Move To Declare “Road to Coast” A Highway

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1961 · page 2

A concerted effort may be made to have the reconstructed “roud to the coast” declared a…

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Simpson’s Creek Bridge Building Commenced

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 1

Work on Simpson’s Greek Bridge, on the ”coast road,” just east of Bungendore, has commenced…

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Pound Hill Bridge to Be Extended

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 2

Queanbeyan Municipal Council appears likely to extend the present Pound Hill bridge in preference to erecting a new structure…

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Hall Road To Be Gravelled

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 5

Yarrowlumla Shire Council will out gravelling on a road near Hall, following an appeal from a landholder. The appeal came from Mr…

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Shire Will Not pay Road tax

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 5

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council will, not pay road tax of haulage - contractors employed on works on…

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Bungendore—Captain’s Flat Road Works

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 6

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council has approved plans for the first mite and a half of reconstruction and…

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Shire To Claim On PMG For Road Damage

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 May 1961 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council will lodge a claim with the Postmaster General’s Department in regard to alleged damage caused to new black-top work…

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Road Anomaly Removal Urged

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 May 1961 · page 2

CANBERRA, Friday. —In at least 50 cases, N.S.W. bitumen rural roads joined main highways of gravel…

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Shire Approves £30,000 Programme for Bye Roads

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 May 1961 · page 1

The Yarrowlumla Shire Council, at a special meeting on Wednesday morning, adopted a…

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