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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1964

156 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 8

Car Overturns on Coast Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1964 · page 5

The driver of a car which overturned on the coast road at about 7 o’clock on Thursday night, attributed…

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Road Safety president re-elected

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1964 · page 1

At last Friday night’s 10th annual general meeting of the Queanbeyan branch of the Road Safety…

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Football fans injured in road smash

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1964 · page 1

Two Crookwell Rugby League football fans were injured when returning home on Sunday night at…

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Letchworth bridge project under way

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 July 1964 · page 1

Work has commenced on the construction of the traffic bridge at Letchworth level crossing, on the Tharwa Road. For year it has been a…

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Car crashes on Bungendore Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 July 1964 · page 6

Fairly extensive damage was caused to a vehicle which crashed into an embankment on the Bungendore…

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Survey on Jerangle Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1964 · page 6

The survey of the proposed reconstruction of the Jerangle Road, leading from Captain’s Flat, is well in…

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Car Washed Off Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1964 · page 1

A small, late model sedan was washed off the Federal Highway on Sunday at about 11 p.m…

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Shire Clerk Warns on Rate Spiral Policy on access road maintenance criticised

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 July 1964 · page 1

If Yarrowlumla Shire Council proposes to spend money on access roads which are not gazetted as public, then it will have to put up its rates. This warning was issued at…

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Car trials damaging back roads

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 July 1964 · page 1

Residents of some country areas are concerned at the damage being caused to back roads by vehicles…

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Captain’s Flat News Plans approved for final section of road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1964 · page 6

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has received approval of the plans for reconstruction of the final section of the Captain’s Flat Road, between 24¾ miles and the Railway Station…

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Shire’s road programme amended

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1964 · page 1

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has had to amend its programme of works relating to the expenditure of…

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Re-alignment work on Old Cooma Road

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1964 · page 1

Work has commenced on the re-alignment of several sharp corners on the Stringybark Hill, portion of…

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Shire hopes to pipe crossings on Mac’s Reef road

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 July 1964 · page 3

The Shire Council hopes to pipe some of the low crossings on the Mac’s Reef Road…

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Fruit scattered over road after accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 August 1964 · page 2

As a result of an accident at the intersection of Crawford and Campbell Streets yesterday, fruit, littered the…

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Two-way country roads boost

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1964 · page 6

An immense boost would be given to country roads works by the Menzies Government’s decision to raise its' road grants to all States by 50 per cent for the five years from…

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Final cost of road is £228,836

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1964 · page 7

The final estimated cost of reconstructing and sealing the Captain's Flat road from Queanbeyan is…

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Bridge Timbers Removed Shire Council to Take Legal Action

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1964 · page 7

Yarrowlumla Shire Council intends prosecuting the person who removed a quantity of bridge timbers stacked on an area of land adjoining Scabbin’s Flat Creek on the…

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Captain’s Fiat News Shire Briefs From Captain’s Policy on Access Roads Confirmed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1964 · page 6

Yarrowlumla Shire Council has reaffirmed its recently stated policy not to carry out any further maintenance on access roads, which are not designated as public roads. This was indicated at the…

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Series of Weekend Road Accidents Youth killed when car overturns near Burbong

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1964 · page 1

A 16-year-old Queanbeyan youth, Douglas Raymond Creamer, of 12 George Street, Oaks Estate, was killed on Sunday night when the vehicles in which he was travelling overturned on the Bungendore Road…

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Children in road accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1964 · page 4

The equivalent of three whole classrooms of schoolchildren were being killed each year in N.S.W. road accidents, the president of the Queanbeyan branch of the Road…

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