Close roads to heavy truck if traffic , says Councillor
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 August 1969 · page 1
Cr. T. No Gorman suggested at Wednesday’s meeting of Yarrolwumla Shire Council that if special allocations are not forthcoming from Government sources for construction and maintenance on rural roads, it should cease all maintenance on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge unsale
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 August 1969 · page 4
The bridge over Turallo Creek on the Bungendore Tarago Road may have to be closed to heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Finance Sought for Road
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 August 1969 · page 2
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has made an approach to the Department of Main Roads for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shire supports road proposal
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 August 1969 · page 3
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has supported proposals for the reclassification of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commonwealth should help with roads
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 September 1969 · page 7
“By stipulating how Commonwealth Aid Road grants should be spent the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some aspects of road report erroneous
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 September 1969 · page 7
Yarrowlumla Shire Council Engineer (Mr. J. M. Firth) has described as “quite erroneous” some deductions made in the report on the proposed Canberra-Tumut Road released recently by the Prime Minister and State Premier, which were based on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Survey on railway siding
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 September 1969 · page 1
The Queanbeyan Chamber of Commerce is to conduct a survey of members…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Main Roads programme to cost $22,254
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 September 1969 · page 1
Queanbeyan Municipal Council has approved a trunk and main road maintenance improvement programme for 1970 estimated to cost $22,254. Of this amount the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire gels $92,000 road grant
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 September 1969 · page 1
The Minister for Public Works, the Hon. Davis Hughes, announced this morning that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wet weather affects rural road system
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 September 1969 · page 3
The recent wet weather has highlighted the need within Yarrowlumla Shire for the need of more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cycle Stolen and Stripped
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 September 1969 · page 1
A motor cycle stolen in Queanbeyan recently has been found partly stripped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road widening at least three years away
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 September 1969 · page 1
It is estimated that it will be at least three years before land required for road widening in Yass Road, Queanbeyan, will be acquired for that purpose by the Municipal- Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two roads affected Shire Imposes Load Limits
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 September 1969 · page 1
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has imposed load limits on another two rural roads to prevent their use by heavy traffic other than stock transports, etc., which will fee issued with special permits…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eleven injured road accidents
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 September 1969 · page 1
Eleven persons were injured and taken to hospital by Queanbeyan ambulance in five separate road accidents within three hours on Sunday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Councillors favour diversion of heavy traffic to main roads
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 September 1969 · page 3
Some councillors of Yarrowlumla Shire Council believe its should declare all rural roads within its area “light traffic thoroughfares” where there is an alternate route over highways, trunk or main roads for heavy haulage traffic carting materials to Queanbeyan or Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways Staff Recruiting
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 September 1969 · page 2
The New South Wales Railways has advised that its mobile staff recurring carriage will be visiting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Model Train May Run in Park
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 October 1969 · page 1
The Municipal Council is considering leasing Elizabeth Park, on the comer of Morrissett and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Submits $49,858 Roads Programme
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 October 1969 · page 1
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has submitted a programme providing an expenditure $49,858 on main roads maintenance and repairs next year. Of this amount the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magistrate’s concern Two motorists under influence in one accident
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 October 1969 · page 2
A second motorist has been fined in Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions for driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor as the result of an [?] at the intersection of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →River Bridge ‘Condemned’
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 October 1969 · page 1
“Condemned — Cross at Your Own Risk. By Order of the Council,” This was the sign affixed…
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