Toodyay to Get Five Passing Lanes
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Your locally owned 5000 copies circulating in Toodyay, West Toodyay, Goomalling, Postage Bolgart, Calingiri, Morangup, Northam, Coondle, Hoddys Well, community newspaper March 2019 Paid Wattening, Dewars Pool, Culham, Bejoording, Nunile, Julimar, Bakers Est. 1902 Hill, Clackline, Wooroloo, Wundowie, Gidgegannup and local districts. Edition 377 Australia Toodyay to get five passing lanes Work underway on widening part of a 5km stretch of Toodyay Road between Racecourse Road and Clackline-Toodyay Road, with plans for five new passing lanes further along. Michael Sinclair-Jones Fernie Road, and 27km of road realignment, Racecourse Road and the Clackline-Toodyay Main Roads WA said Toodyay Road was vegetation clearing and widening. Road. a “key connection between Perth, Toodyay FIVE new passing lanes near Toodyay will and surrounding communities” and carried be added to some of the most dangerous Toodyay Road will be realigned and a new Current roadworks with intermittent lane structure built where it crosses Jimperding closures will continue until next month. agricultural, extractive industries (gravel, stretches of Toodyay Road, with major road- sand and clay), waste and tourism traffic. widening already underway between Harper Brook. The spokesperson said the timing of Brook and Coorinja Winery. A Main Roads WA spokesperson said remaining works would depend on the State It quoted a 2015 WA Government review Three new westbound and two eastbound Federal Government funding had been Budget, which is due in May. which found that Toodyay Road had the overtaking and climbing lanes for heavy secured for a one-kilometre section which WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt recently forecast “highest crash density” in the Wheatbelt. trucks are planned between Morangup Road is currently being widened about 3km from a Budget surprise surplus of $1.02 billion, Main Roads WA was currently buying land, and Toodyay-Clackline Road. Toodyay. although much of that is expected to be removing fences and arranging for utilities to Plans also include seven upgraded Further land clearing and earthworks spent on the State Government’s Metronet be shifted to make way for the road upgrade. intersections between Racecourse Road and are underway on a 5km stretch between rail expansion project in Perth. More Page 5 with plan. Editorial Page 4. Toodyay Farmers Market Black cockatoos landfill clash Sunday March 17 CONFLICTING decisions by two State by lush rural farmlands, according to a State “will be conserved in perpetuity”, including this month Government agencies have given local Government report. 188 new artificial nesting hollows for black residents new hope in their long-running The licence was granted on the premise cockatoos. classifieds 28 battle to stop thousands of tonnes of Perth that the Clackline Nature Reserve was 2.3km The purchase increased the size of the emergency services 7,8 household rubbish being dumped 13km from the Chitty Road site, which was the Clackline Nature Reserve by a third and environment 20-21 south of Toodyay in Hoddys Well. case when the State Government overruled extended it to within 700m of the landfill site. The WA Department of Water and objections in August 2015 to grant works Five Toodyay landfill objectors are now health 30 Environmental Regulation (DWER) last approval to build the dump. using this as one of several grounds of letters 4 month granted Bayswater landfill operator However, Main Roads WA announced in appeal to WA Environment Minister Stephen Opal Vale a licence to dump more than 400 January this year that it needed to clear 53ha Dawson via the State Office of the Appeals public notices 28 tonnes of “putrescible” waste in Hoddys Well of trees and other vegetation from either side Convenor. puzzles 29 from 7am to 6pm, every day, seven days a of Toodyay Road for major road widening The Shire of Toodyay is also understood sport 31 week except on public holidays. and new passing lanes. to have considered lodging an appeal but The site is within five kilometres of 70 rural To offset the loss, it bought 196ha of did not respond to a Herald request for trades & services 22-27 homes, with two “likely to have direct line of “prime wandoo woodland adjacent to the confirmation or details. when & where 28 sight” to the landfill site which is surrounded Clackline Nature Reserve” which it said Continued Page 5. 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