{"id":188475,"date":"2025-03-20T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188475"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:30:24","slug":"north-queenslanders-frustrated-over-ongoing-bruce-highway-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188475","title":{"rendered":"North Queenslanders frustrated over ongoing Bruce Highway closures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As north Queenslanders deal with a second flood in as many months, frustrations are growing after the Bruce Highway was again closed this morning cutting off Far North residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bruce Highway was closed this morning north of Ingham, with truck drivers facing lengthy wait to get supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highway closure is the third time north Queensland region has been cut off due to flooding since February.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\" id=\"105075370\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image_2025-03-20_152901234.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image_2025-03-20_152901234.png 734w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image_2025-03-20_152901234-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Bruce Highway is again cut off at Gairloch between Ingham and Cardwell.&nbsp;(Supplied: QLD Traffic and Main Roads)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bruce Highway back in focus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Queensland Trucking Association chief executive Gary Mahon said the condition of the Bruce Highway in the north of the state was not good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unacceptable in today&#8217;s day and age that Far North Queensland has to live with being fully cut off more than twice a year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been calls to expedite road upgrades in north Queensland as the state and federal governments begin a $9 billion program of works to upgrade the Bruce Highway, announcing $300 million in early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As north Queenslanders deal with a second flood in as many months, frustrations are growing after the Bruce Highway was again closed this morning cutting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":188476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[15949,12278,7465],"class_list":["post-188475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-bruce-highway","tag-far-north-queensland","tag-queensland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188479,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188475\/revisions\/188479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}