Petition

The petition of residents of the State of Queensland draws to the
attention of the House, the matter of the short-listed corridors of the
Bruce Highway (Cooroy to Curra) Strategic Planning Study, as published in
the Main Roads Newsletter Issue 3, dated November, 2005.

We, the undersigned, reject all five proposed routes for a new highway
between Cooroy and Curra because of the massive social and economic
impacts they will have on all sections of the greater community of the
area. The proposed routes will cause major loss to existing social,
economic and community infrastructures and have major impacts on the
lifestyle and ambience of the residences of the greater majority of the
community. The routes as presented to the public are unacceptable on many
grounds and your petitioners call on Minister for Transport and Main
Roads Paul Lucas to commission a new study. This study should investigate
areas outside the greater Gympie and its new rural residential sub-
divisions to design a route that will provide a complete by-pass of these
areas for well into the future. Further, that this study be undertaken as
soon as possible and in the meantime the process now under way be halted.