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Russell Cook

Yassss won’t have to run on the highway.

Celia Fuller

That’s brilliant!!! Yet maybe keep the carriages around as they are part of the amazing history. Let someone set up a drink stop by converting a carriage. Let a history group create some information about the amazing past of the cane fields, grower and cutters. How families lived and were affected. The cycles of cane… much of what the Mossman town was built on. Especially now the factory has closed. Anyway they are my thoughts having lived in the region and never stopped loving it.

Dianne Knight

I really, really, really hope so! Please make this happen!

Julie O’Gorman

Just hurry up and make this bike trail/footpath happen! I've been asking for a bike path, Mossman to Port Douglas, for 25 years!!!!

Gav Hardy

Having experienced some of the excellent trails in NZ and Tassie and witnessing both locals and tourists using them, this is a great step towards building an alternative travel experience for locals and visitors in our Shire. Maybe incorporating the history of the cane industry and even a mill tour would be interesting. So many possibilities. Although, having ridden a bicycle from Port to Mossman and back countless times, I do hope the planners take into account that a lot of shade trees and a couple of rest stops need to be incorporated into the trail. That hard slog straight into a headwind, usually Mossy-Port, can be soul destroying.

John Sexton

A path 21km long for a tourist town that won't be used by tourists and a combined population of 7000 max is so ridiculous it's actually laughable. In what realm do this ideas come from? It's a 42km return trip, the usage ratio compared to the actual blow-out cost is absurd. How high do you want the rates to go?

Allen Lavender

The carriages should remain. They are attractive and great to look at. They are a part of the Shire history. Plus, the rust and overgrowth is something all tourists enjoy looking at. A photo opportunity. Just kidding.

Phil Carlon

If they go ahead with a bio-digester for SAF then they will still need the rail network.

James Rich

Can’t even maintain the walking track around Flagstaff Hill, imagine the manpower needed for this?

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Phil West

Modern technology brought the driver undone, also even more risky trying to cross along the downstream side of the crossing because if the car gets pushed a bit more to the left, the driver has nowhere to go but over the side.

Don Wright

For decades people have driven through there, without incident. Complacency and lack of knowledge or experience is the biggest risk when negotiating water crossings.

Cherylene Turner

People who are careless and cross flooded waters knowing the risk and placing emergency services personnel at risk to save their lives, should cop hefty fine.

Lawrence Mason

Nobody would have need to "risk their lives" to rescue it, the water is knee deep. The driver could have walked out. And if anyone bothered to carry a tow rope it was an easy retrieve. Whether it is a stop sign, or zip merge, drivers do the wrong thing daily. I don't get people calling for the driver's blood. Are we all completely indoctrinated by media? People north of here drive trough floodwater regularly or we would never get home. If you are calling for blood, why not ask why the government has not raised this road despite the new bridge being there for 20 years.

Jo Black

I’m not defending him - and please don’t hate - driving through floodwaters, etc, etc. I’m just wondering where the traffic control was that is everywhere up here? Surely the people in charge of these things should have been there? Just saying It was 6:15am according to the camera - day's half over, lol.