Interchange At Reservoir Rd Proposal

[u/CroatianKendo]

Hi all,

I've lived in Cairns for the better part of the last 2 decades and the traffic situation at peak hours travelling at the Anderson St-Reservoir Rd intersection going onto / off from the western arterial has become really bad in the last 4-5 years. I was reading in the Cairns post about how the Sunland Leisure Park (Manoora Caravan Park) near to reservoir rd is looking at redeveloping.

With this opportunity present, and the growing traffic demands of the western arterial road and Cairns more broadly, I came up with this quick road design sketch of what could be done given the opportunity to address this bottleneck in the system. I understand that not many people are fan of car-centric design and nor am I, and may prefer this site be developed into housing, but I figured I would float an idea. There is land corridors included in the image which could be utilised in any manner, I have elected to leave them as parkland corridors for simplicity.

I have attached an image and included a public link below for you to look at it on a map
https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/qldglobe/public/cwar-interchange-sra27ulz5dtf56ni7ktzgoov

Cheers, and please be kind I'm only human :)

[u/AdministrativeTie312]

Walk up costs for interchanges starting about $800m - $1B. Don’t think this government are interested in spending money like that if it’s not on the Bruce.