Queensland Inland Freight Route is a proposal to upgrade the existing highways from to in

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, Australia. It would be a quality two-lane alternative freight route to the

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Funding and program status

The estimated total cost in 2020 was $1.0 billion. The project was announced in October 2020 with an initial funding of $400 million from the Federal Government and $200 million from the Queensland Government. In the 2021 Budget the Queensland Government indicated that half of its funding had been allocated to a future priorities funding commitment. The project is at the detailed planning stage.

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has set the project status as long-term (10 to 20 years).

Type of work

Works to be undertaken would include pavement straightening, road widening, new alignments, overtaking lanes and new or upgraded bridges.

Proposed route

The route would follow the

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from Charters Towers to , the

Dawson Highway The Dawson Highway is a state highway in Queensland, Australia. It runs for between Gladstone and Springsure where it terminates. From Gladstone to Rolleston it is signed as State Route 60, and then A7 onwards to Springsure. It continues west f ...

to , and the

Carnarvon Highway Carnarvon Highway is a state highway in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, linking the township of Rolleston in Queensland's Central Highlands Region, via the town of St George, eventually to Moree in northern New South Wales. It is th ...

to Mungindi, a distance of almost . The section from Charters Towers to is part of the

Great Inland Way The Great Inland Way is an Australian road route from Sydney, New South Wales to Cairns in Queensland. It has been designated by the Queensland Government as a State Strategic Touring Route. The route The New South Wales section is from Syd ...

, a State Strategic Touring Route. Licensed

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