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Bill Pitcher

Yes needs several 1.2 m culverts on the approaches to the bridge to lift the road. Not a big job.

Kim Christensen

Needs an overpass, lots of people get stuck every time in the rainy season. Would love to know how the poor guy in the white house next to the creek goes every time it floods. Does he get flooded out?

Denis McKinley

Transport and Main Roads in conjunction with Mareeba Shire Council have avoided the yearly flooding of the Bushy Creek Flats - every year in our wet season this highway is closed for days which means all traffic in either direction ceases - schoolchildren to Saint Stephen’s College Mareeba from Mossman/Port Douglas miss several days and up to a week - there needs to be a priority on large culverts for a distance of 500 metres positioned to raise this section of the highway above the highest recorded flood level - why hasn’t this infrastructure been planned and implemented long before now?

Leroy Brown

Main Roads/Roadtek replaced that bridge in 2006, when they removed the old timber bridge and replaced it with the concrete one the engineers didn't allow for the extra thickness of the concrete which now blocks the water flow more than the old bridge. It's always had dramas but not as bad as now.

JB Blokey

And let's not forget that when the Cook Hwy was closed for weeks after Jasper that NO traffic got north-south when Bushy was flooded for days. What happened to “Build Back Better”? Too right Bushy is in desperate need for an upgrade, and it is in both Mareeba's AND Douglas Shire's interests (and Cook) to lobby together to get this joke fixed. To adapt an oft-quoted saying: “If it floods, let's NOT forget it”!

Wendy Cambage

All residents and locals alike are so fed up with the same issue year in year out. We have lived in Julatten for 22 years and it has always been the same. It is a crucial link to Cairns when there are issues with the Captain Cook Highway. Surely it is time for more than a patching up of the concrete?! It is so disruptive and as a business owner in the tourism sector it seriously affects our ability to operate during the wet season.

Jenny Kirk

Overdue should have been addressed long ago.

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Maverick Dutch

Government should be making Port a priority there’s no place like it in Au should have all shops filled and an upgrade for the Marina, I’m sure locals and the like have tons of ideas it’s like a mini Hawaii just needs improvements.

Gary Verri

It probably could if you didn’t have a dead sugar industry surrounding it.

Graham Dean

Wet season every year shops are vacant. Dry season around the corner look out.

Matt Pacific Seagull

And the marina and harbour look like a dying town... omg... plant some trees at least.

Tony Bartels

With all the money Douglas Shire throws into it should be as they don’t spend money anywhere else.

Roy Gorrell

Go have a look on either side of Oaks resort, what a mess, gunna gunna develop, council knock it back, resort next to the marina knocked back, it goes on and on there.

Michelle Simone

Had we had a lovely lagoon put in instead of a teeny tots splash park then we would most definitely have won it.