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Kate Jesseca

It’s an incredible scenic road that could be vital as an alternative route for the highway during disasters and peak times. Great spot to sit and look out over.

Tina Hoffmann

For 25 years I hoped that one day it will happe. It also would create a most needed additional escape option regarding slips and marine hazards. I think it would definitely give a relief on the coastal traffic and a much easier accsess to the mid Tablelands. Love the effort!

Neil Jabs

Whilst this is an excellent idea - most of you miss the very point to make this happen - money - TMR have NO money and the road is not a primary road - it is a “want” not a “need” road. The cost to reinstate and resurface the entire road (even just the potholes) would be millions only to appease a minority. Mind you when they sink over 100,000,000 into the Wangetti trail to be built on the side of cliffs - one wonders who, what and where the priorities lie in North QLD.

Ian Edwards

6501 as of 1400 today. With 9 days to go surely we can reach 7000 signatures. The response so far has been really fabulous. Thanks to the support and enthusiasm of David Kempton MP.

Micheal Valinoti

That road my dad and his team built it a good road going to waste, it would be good to be able to drive on it.

Eddie Gregoric

Priority for the Captain Cook and Rex Range roads needs to be given first before any secondary roads are considered. The December 2023 rainfall event demonstrated the vulnerability of our region’s access network. Access to Quaid's Road from both Cairns and Mossman/Port Douglas was closed, meaning Quaid's Road provided no practical alternative access for the wider community. This should have been a clear warning of the need to protect and strengthen our primary transport routes. Towns and communities north of Cairns rely heavily on the Captain Cook Highway as their essential connection to Cairns.

It is not simply a road for convenience; it is a lifeline for access to emergency services, hospitals, specialist medical treatment, employment, education, tourism and the movement of essential goods. Any prolonged closure of this highway has serious consequences for residents, businesses and visitors throughout the region. Our region depends on a network of critical roads that must be treated as the highest priority: the Captain Cook Highway between Cairns, Port Douglas and Mossman; the Mossman–Mount Molloy Road over the Rex Range; and access to the Tablelands via the Kuranda Range, the Gillies Highway and the Palmerston Highway.

These roads are the lifelines of Far North Queensland and are critical to the region’s safety, economy and resilience. If these major routes are closed, secondary roads such as Quaid's Road will not solve the problem of regional isolation. Before significant funding is committed to secondary projects, the resilience of these primary transport corridors should be secured. If these critical roads are again cut by future weather events — as experience tells us they will be — and it is found that available funding was directed towards secondary roads instead of strengthening these essential lifelines, there must be accountability for those decisions. Governments and decision makers have already been given a clear warning.

The community has every right to expect that protecting the roads essential for emergency access, medical services, freight, tourism and everyday life comes before projects of lesser strategic importance. We cannot continue to rely on good fortune during extreme weather events. The time to invest in the resilience of our region’s critical transport network is now, before another disaster exposes the consequences of misplaced priorities. Only then can we consider upgrading secondary roads.

Roz Barford

It’s going to cost big dollars to rebuild that road to standard as the foundations of the road weren’t built properly when it was first built had a lot of water over it at one stage washed it away in part because of the lack of proper foundations to the road. Having that way up the Tablelands will make 5 routes.

Andy Jay

An illegal road put through world heritage area of the Wet Tropics.

Robert Busato

It's obvious who has never driven it or has some green agenda yet have no qualms driving from Cairns to Kuranda or to Port Douglas in world heritage areas or, heaven forbid, Daintree. Yet this road when rebuilt would be safer than Kuranda or Rex ranges, especially for trucks.

Ronlund Terry

How many folk holding positions of influence make observations then base decision on truth, fact, logic and reality?? How many achievers and realists plant gardens along busy congested roadways, then, in order to trim their gardens, block traffic, including ambulances, and firefighting tenders and buses?? Quaid Road, and north Cairns may answer the question.

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Daniel Herlihy

We are all full up here, there’s no more houses available, better chances are in the cities.

Cooya Takeaway

DSC should be encouraging these people to build new houses by releasing or rezoning land to create an oversupply and reduce the application fees associated with new builds. Babyboomers have lived through the biggest economic boom ever, if they want to live here we should look for ways to create long-term benefit from there money instead of higher prices. In 20-odd years bayboomers won't be here anymore but the things they build will be. Douglas Shire could have an oversupply of housing in 10-15 years if local government pulled a few economic levers such as these.

Wayne Brownlie

Boomers after COVID, yeah not a good thing.

Gordon Smith

65 and over millionaires????