Photo courtesy of McNab Vegetation clearing is complete and works are now starting on key structures among the 24 bridges that will form part of the Second Second Range Range Crossing Crossing Project – Minister for Main Roads and Road Safety Mark Bailey The route is designed to increase freight efficiency and significantly improve road The Toowoomba Second and driver safety by removing heavy vehicles from Toowoomba’s CBD. The • grade-separated interchanges Range Crossing is the largest TSRC will create a faster and more at Warrego West, Australian Government efficient route for connecting freight to Toowoomba-Cecil Plains Road major ports and markets. and the funding commitment to a single road project in The Toowoomba Second Range • grade-separated connections to Crossing will: Mort Street and Boundary Street Queensland’s history. The $1.6 billion project is • reduce travel time across the • an approximately 30m deep cutting Toowoomba Range by up to 40 minutes at the top of the Toowoomba Range a 43km road bypass route for heavy commercial vehicles to the north of Toowoomba. • an 800m long viaduct built east from • avoid up to 18 sets of traffic lights the , crossing over the existing Queensland Rail line When finished, it will connect • relieve pressure on local roads by redirecting trucks away from the at The project has been separated into Toowoomba’s CBD three areas: east, central and west. Helidon Spa in the east to Construction work is being carried • increase freight efficiencies the Gore Highway at Athol out at multiple sites concurrently. The key features of TSRC are: in the west via Charlton. The east section is from the • four lanes from Warrego Highway East Warrego Highway at Helidon Spa to the Interchange to Warrego Highway West New England Highway at Mt Kynoch.

For construction, traffic updates, maps and careers visit Nexus TSRC www.nexustsrc.com.au or call 1800 198 878 tsbe.com.au with theAustralian andQueensland into aPublic-Private Partnership Nexus Infrastructure hasentered Highway West interchange. Plains Roadinterchange andWarrego Junction works, Toowoomba-Cecil the Gore Highwayinterchange, Gowrie Cranley to Gore Highway,Atholincludes The west sectionfrom BoundaryStreet, Street interchange. Mort Street interchange andBoundary New EnglandHighwayrealignment, Boundary Street, Cranley includes the The central section,from MtKynoch to East interchange. Road overpass andWarrego Highway It includestheviaduct,MurphysCreek Toowoomba Second Range Crossing Project training andskills development. supply chainopportunities,aswell as region’s economy, employment and The TSRCproject willdevelop the expected to be open to traffic in late 2018. Construction began in April2016andis and maintain the TSRCinAugust 2015. contract to design,construct, operate Nexus Infrastructure wasawarded the operation andmaintenance contract. and underground services, plusa25-year road andpavements, cuttings,structures construction ofthetoll road, including This cost covers thefulldesignand an 80:20fundingsplitarrangement. the delivery ofthe$1.6billionproject on Governments, whoare jointly funding tsbe.com.au

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