Motorist learns the hard way It doesn’t pay to be offensive to police
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1970 · page 7
It doesn’t offensive towards police officers in the execution of their duty. This fact was brought home forcibly to a Canberra motorist at a recent sitting of Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions. Warren D. Ying 24 of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One Dead — Five Injured in Weekend Accidents on Local Roads
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1970 · page 1
A young man was killed and five others injured in serious road accidents within the Queanbeyan police district at the week-end. The dead man was a passenger in the car pictured, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Subsidy doubt halts low level bridge plans
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1970 · page 1
The N.S.W. Department of Public Works is reluctant to provide a subsidy for the proposed low level bridge over the Queanbeyan River at the foot of Morrissett Street and it is doubtful if the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire’s plan to reconstruct coast road
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 9
Yarrowlumla Shire Council will make an allocation of $2,000 each year towards reconstruction on the coast road, between Queanbeyan and the Tallaganda Shire boundary…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Road Safety Branch wants pedestrian crossing altered
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 4
Queanbeyan branch of the Road Safety Council will request the Municipal Council and Police Traffic branch to consider relocating the existing pedestrian crossing in Lowe Street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shire view on Burra Road Reconstruction more urgent than causeways
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 21
Yarowlumla Shire Council believes an expenditure of up to $23,600 to eliminate two causeways on the Burra Road, about two miles from its junction with the Queanbeyan-Royalla Road, would be a waste of public money at this stage…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Railways to Build Gang Depot
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 20
The Railways Department is to clear land and build a structure for the mechanised maintenance…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →World Rated Motor Cyclists to Make Tralee Speedway Their New Headquarters
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 August 1970 · page 24
Two world rated solo motor cyclists are making Queanbeyan’s Tralee Speedway their headquarters. One of them plans to launch a riding school for local novices. The riders are the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Uriarra Road Fatality
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1970 · page 1
A 25-year-old Canberra man, David Christie Blades, of 55 Pridham Street, Farrar, was killed early on Saturday morning when this car overturned in Uriarra Road. The accident occurred at about 6.05am near the Railway Avenue intersection. Blades suffered extensive head injuries when he was thrown out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Improvement works on Tinderry Road
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1970 · page 13
Substantial improvement works are planned on the Tinderry Road, according to Yarrowlumla…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Suburb over the road developments
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1970 · page 13
[?] Commiss[?] Motor Transport, [?] Coleman, could not resist a dig at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Donald Road Improvements
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1970 · page 1
The Municipal Council will give consideration in its next loan programme to kerbing and guttering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Main Roads Programme of $23,162
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1970 · page 1
Queanbeyan Municipal Council has submitted a main roads maintenance and improvement…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclists' Adventure Ride
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1970 · page 10
This year’s motor cycle safely ride is expected to attract a great number of young people, the chairman of the N.S.W. Road Safety Council, Sir William Hudson said today. The ride was being…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Road block arrest
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 September 1970 · page 1
Two men have been arrested as a result of a road block set up on Saturday morning by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Uriarra Road May Become Clearway
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 September 1970 · page 1
Moves were instituted at last night’s meeting of the Municipal Council which could result in Uriarra Road and Commonwealth Avenues being declared clearways during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coast road deterioration Shire Threat to Signpost Danger Spots
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 September 1970 · page 1
Yarrowlumla Shire Council is considering erecting signposts on badly deteriorated sections of the Coast Road to draw attention to the damage being caused by heavy traffic hauling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collisions in Uriarra Road
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1970 · page 1
Queanbeyan Police have investigated three collisions in Uriarra Road, Queanbeyan in the last two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Department urges use of local Motor Registries
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 September 1970 · page 3
The Department of Motor Transport is keen for its country Motor Registry offices to handle all Departmental business in their respective areas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Industry ’Flat on road back
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1970 · page 1
A jubilant and excited Mr. Tom Kerr, commenting today on the announcement that a large sawmill is to commence operating at Captain’s Flat within three months, said: “The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →