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Wade Iserief

60kph and install better signage at the pedestrian crossing near the bridge, as the current signs are too small. This would help non-local travelers know there is a pedestrian crossing.

Barbara Anderson

60kmph. There is no longer a cane train to surprise you and it's easy to drive there.

Jo Wood

Make the 40km shorter, just over the bridge area. Atm with 40km it is tooo long to drive and there is no more trains going along that bridge. or Make it 60k but shorter, just over the bridge. And removed all train tracks.

Terence Melchert

Should be increased at least to 50kph It was only set at 40kph when the bridge was shared with cane trains. Sadly that part of history is completely over.

Tinalouise Seaton

Leave it as it is 40km.

Brett Harding

Don’t educate, just punish… 

Lisa McCafferty

All should be 40km. It's shocking the amount of wildlife killed.

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Phillip Carlon

Just install a bio-digester and turn the cane into fuel. Cane can be replaced with other similar grass crops that allow continued harvesting through the year so that the bio-digesters don’t run out of material. Use what you have but turn it into another market before the state government turns their back on you!

Lauren Gratas

Just a suggestion here - I’m no aquaculture professional - but the low-lying and flood prone cane land has excellent agricultural potential if Chinampas were built. There’s already a couple in Daintree which have had no environmental impacts. It’s a very cost-effective, very low maintenance, self-sufficient, self-fertilising way to grow pretty much anything. I spent a semester at uni studying them, and have wondered since then why we don’t have them here. It also has the potential to interest tourists. If you don’t want to research what Chinampas are, reach out to me and I will be happy to elaborate further.

James Ryan

I do miss seeing the Cane and harvest season hopefully a suitable new crop is found. 

Luke Horniblow

Hardest thing about putting another sort of crop in it’s going to still cost a lot for freight to get it to market.

Christopher Saint

Thanks to Mike for keeping the discussion going, as to be honest if can be quite frustrating up here to get anyone to push for innovative solutions. A couple of related points: 1. I am told on good authority that years ago there was a successful cut flower industry up here that failed due to the collapse of Ansett and the ensuing expensive and low volume flights from Cairns. Worth revisiting now? 2. The water availability excuse is a furphy. There is no shortage of water if state and local government championed “integrated water management” or at least started to work towards it. If the driest state on the driest inhabited continent can achieve it (South Australia) why can’t we?

Jake Wyatt

Or a local dirt bike track where people can ride legally and have some outdoor fun.