YOU SAID IT! Where’s our bus?

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Justin McKay

Public transport is a big problem in this area, not everyone can drive.

Julie Robertson

Been done before and just not enough population to make it viable. We are a small shire and living here means your own transport!

Helen Killen

I believe we should have public transport -at least Mossman-Port-Cairns. We should be eligible for the state 50c fare!

Dawn Wilmes

So many would be out of work? It's all been tried before. Thank you.

Bon White

Of course and a school bus as well Port School and to Mossman schools. Imagine the save of pollution from hundreds of parents vehicles twice a day.

Tracey Jones

I think it’s absolutely ridiculous that we don’t have a bus service, public or private between Mossman and Port. The private companies which have think it’s absolutely ridiculous that we don’t have a bus service, public or private between Mossman and Port. The private companies which have “tried” it over the past few years have missed the mark with timing as they were aimed at tourists going to the gorge. We need an early morning bus from Mossman to Port and a late afternoon return at the very least to accommodate for workers. With the mill gone and housing so expensive in Port, I see many people living in Mossman and working in Port.

 

Factor in extra time for Captain Cook travels

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Josh Ribbons

I got a good understanding today of what's involved in repairing these roads with the FNQ geology. These guys are drilling heaps of big, deep piles and filling with slurry, to secure the road base into what bedrock there is. It's a big job and highly dangerous work. The piles they are putting in up on the Palmerston Hwy are unbelievably deep, like 60m due to the volcanic ash layers below that caused the hills to slip in the first place. Could there be more people on the job at once to get it done quicker? Probably, but it's impossible to get the number of skilled people required up here.

John Christopher

Here’s how this might sound to someone more cynical than myself: To save money, they’ve pushed the engineers’ calculations to the absolute limit, and now they’re hoping for the best. Wouldn’t want to be the driver of the big rig.

Ebony McCartney

Let’s hope the trial truck driver goes as quick as the other truck drivers go so they get accurate data.

 

New deal could save cane growers

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Keith Pitt

While I know nothing about running a sugar mill, the question you all be asking is where does $45m go in 5-6 years? A lot of the old farming families are asking this question.

Steve Smith

Why can't they go to Mareeba mill?

Wayne Brownlie

Thought Australia was a capitalist country, maybe the farmers should just adapt, everyone else has had to.

Phillip Carlon

This is an important reprieve. But don’t do as you have for the last 5 years. Now is the time to start designing a biogas transition. There is a huge appetite for biofuels and your cane carries the sunshine in your crop. Cane can be harvested at least twice a year to lengthen the harvest opportunity. You can change to sorghum if you need an alternative crop. The bio-digester will return organic fertiliser to help grow the next crops. You can even use methane to fuel your machinery. It runs in a diesel engine better than diesel. Put together an application to Arena for funding Now!

Dan Hammersley

Bailing them out again. No more. They knew it was coming. They choose to continue cane then pay their own transport.

Mark Kane

Having multiple heavy vehicles on the road constantly is nothing to celebrate, there will eventually be casualties.

Darren Hart

A disgusting waste of tax dollars propping up an unviable industry AGAIN.

Christopher Saint

So if there is to be any forward thinking innovation in this then it has to be buying time to perform R&D on what might be the best sustainable alternative crops to grow and segue into them.

 

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