Project benefits and features
Project benefits
- Improve road safety for all road users.
- Provide additional road capacity and reduce congestion.
- Improve road freight efficiency.
- Improve intersection arrangements.
- Cater for the mix of through, local and tourist traffic, pedestrians and cyclists.
- Take account of the area's current and likely future development.
Project features
- Widening of the highway to provide two travel lanes and a shoulder / parking lane in each direction.
- Wider travel lanes and shoulders.
- Variable width raised median.
- Kerb and guttering, and paved pedestrian pathways.
- Provision for cyclists.
- Replacement of the existing bridge at Boyd Creek and widening of various drainage culverts.
