Paper Petition

The petition of residents of the State of Queensland draws to the attention of the House the increased volume of heavy haulage mining equipment traffic through the townships of Eton, North Eton, Marian and Pleystowe en route for repairs in the Industrial Areas of Mackay.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to address our concerns about the safety of our school children and the residents in the aforementioned towns in the short-term with sufficient government funding made available for the immediate undertaking of works to bring the Sandy Creek Bridge on Homebush Road up to an acceptable standard to take this traffic out of the aforementioned townships; and further, that the appropriate agencies work together in order to establish and implement a long term solution that takes all heavy and overwidth vehicular traffic out of our towns, as it is just as necessary to implement a high quality road infrastructure to service the mines as it was to establish the rail and port infrastructures in the recent past given that the mining industry is ever increasing in size.