Post by NFA on Jun 27, 2023 6:29:06 GMT 8
RE: Be at home on the range
The Editor
The Cairns Post
The FNQ Regional Organisation of Councils executive officer has correctly stated the outcome of 1999’s Integrated Transport Study for the Kuranda Range, which spun off the FNQ 2010 Regional Strategic Planning Process, was that Cairns’ overflow population could not be accommodated west of Kuranda due to the cost of upgrading the Kuranda Range Road, (Be at home on the range, 27/06).
However, cost was just one factor in the decision to abandon proposed satellite communities around Kuranda and Myola. The other was that there are very few jobs or services in that area, its residents would be regular Range commuters, and their numbers would swamp an upgrade to four lanes.
The FNQROC EO concludes that Cairns’ overflow population should be placed there anyway, which makes it seem like the FNQ 2031 is yet another waste of time and money - just like its predecessor.
There is a way to improve Cairns-Tablelands connectivity that pays for itself, which I’ve described here several time previously, but neither Labor nor the LNP want to hear about it – presumably because it doesn’t end with you living in a World Economic Forum-approved pod in a high rise tower in a 15-minute city, where you’ll own nothing, eat bugs, and be happy.
(206 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
The Cairns Post
The FNQ Regional Organisation of Councils executive officer has correctly stated the outcome of 1999’s Integrated Transport Study for the Kuranda Range, which spun off the FNQ 2010 Regional Strategic Planning Process, was that Cairns’ overflow population could not be accommodated west of Kuranda due to the cost of upgrading the Kuranda Range Road, (Be at home on the range, 27/06).
However, cost was just one factor in the decision to abandon proposed satellite communities around Kuranda and Myola. The other was that there are very few jobs or services in that area, its residents would be regular Range commuters, and their numbers would swamp an upgrade to four lanes.
The FNQROC EO concludes that Cairns’ overflow population should be placed there anyway, which makes it seem like the FNQ 2031 is yet another waste of time and money - just like its predecessor.
There is a way to improve Cairns-Tablelands connectivity that pays for itself, which I’ve described here several time previously, but neither Labor nor the LNP want to hear about it – presumably because it doesn’t end with you living in a World Economic Forum-approved pod in a high rise tower in a 15-minute city, where you’ll own nothing, eat bugs, and be happy.
(206 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga