Sealed Roads
The municipality has approximately 897km of sealed road, which includes approximately 494km of narrow seal (one lane), and some 1,400km of unsealed shoulders.
Council aims to maintain a safe sealed local road system with the following objectives:
i) Carry out maintenance works on the sealed local road system in order to maximise the economic life of the network.
ii) Maintain the sealed local road network to standards, which allow safe travel by road users.
iii) Continue the program of extending, renewing and upgrading the sealed local road network.
To achieve these objectives Council reconstructs on average 4 km of sealed road, reseals an average of 40 km of road, and re-sheets approximately 25 km of sealed road shoulders per annum.
In addition to these works Council endeavours to grade the shoulders on all sealed roads on an annual basis.
Unsealed Roads
The municipality has approximately 2,200km of unsealed roads, comprising approximately 1,625km of ‘Formed Only’ roads, which includes 200km of School Bus Routes, Collector Roads, and Truck and Industry Access Roads. The remaining roads are ‘Formed and Surfaced” roads and include 295km of School Bus Routes, Collector Roads, and Truck and Industry Access Roads.
Council’s highest priory gravel roads, Collector Roads and Bus Routes, receive two grades per year, while the rest of the unsealed road network, receives one maintenance grade per year.
In addition to the maintenance grading works, Council resheets approximately 30km of unsealed road each year.
Council’s annual maintenance objectives for gravel roads are as follows:
i) Maintain formed only (earthen), formed and surfaced, and gravel/crushed rock shoulders in a safe and trafficable condition required to provide all weather access for local owners, subject to weather conditions.
ii) Grade all formed only, and formed surface roads as per program, giving more important formed and surfaced roads, and school bus routes high priority, as per the Local Road Strategy.
iii) Continue the program of re-sheeting formed and surfaced roads.
iv) Continue unsealed shoulder (gravel/crushed rock) re-sheeting program.
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