Federal Member for Hume Angus Taylor has welcomed an announcement of $4.81 million for the Upper Lachlan Shire under the Federal Coalition’s Roads to Recovery program, from 2019-20 through until 2023-24. 

Mr Taylor said the Roads to Recovery program provided councils with the ability to upgrade local roads, to improve safety and boost local economic growth.

One of the projects that recently received $22,000 in Federal funding under the program was the improvement of Hillgrove Road off the Hume Highway, at the intersection with Ladevale Road.

“This funding will see additional drains installed and then the re-shaping of the road,” Mr Taylor said. “The Upper Lachlan has many projects listed for funding under the program.”

Other local projects to benefit from Roads to Recovery funding include:

• Grabine Road rehabilitation x 2 projects - $400,000 Federal contribution
• Abbey Collins Road at the intersection of Sapphire Road, reshaping and re-gravelling - $22,000 Federal contribution.
• Armours Road reshaping and re-gravelling - $22,000 Federal contribution.
• Bevendale Rd at the intersection with Mullengrove Road, gravelling and re-shaping - $22,000 Federal contribution.
• Biala Road at the intersection with Grabben Gullen Road, improvements $12,000 Federal contribution.
• Brayton Road at the intersection with Jeffreys Road, installing drainage - $22,000 Federal contribution.
• Bulleys Crossing Road at the intersection with Sapphire Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Carrabungla Road at the intersection of Laggan Taralga Road, drainage and gravelling - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Clancys Road at the intersection with Sapphire Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Craigs Road at the intersection with the Goulburn Oberon Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Greenmantle Road at the intersection with Yarraman Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Jerrara Road at the intersection with Mullengrove Road - $19,500 Federal contribution
• Jerrong Road at the intersection with Wombeyan Caves Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Lost River Road at the intersection with Boorowa Road - $38,500 Federal contribution
• Maryvale Road at the intersection with Rugby Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Old South Road at the intersection with Mullins Creek Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Redground Road and Redground Heights Road - $44,000 Federal contribution
• Reids Flat Road at the intersection with Grabine Road - $22,000
• Sapphire Road at the intersection with Grabben Gullen Road - $22,000
• Towrang Road at the intersection with Long Swamp Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Weroona Lane at the intersection with Sapphire Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Wheeo Road at the intersection with Boorowa Road - $22,000 Federal contribution
• Woodhouselee Road at the intersection with Roslyn Road - $10,000 Federal contribution

“More than $3 billion has been invested in Hume infrastructure in the past five years - roads, bridges, the nbn rollout, major capital works, mobile phone towers, smaller community projects - since the Coalition has been in government,” Mr Taylor said.

“We are investing heavily in the Hume growth corridor, in and around the Upper Lachlan, to create jobs, to encourage small businesses to expand and new businesses to start up, to build a strong economy.”

Caption: Improvements to the Hillgrove Road near Ladevale will be carried out with Federal Roads to Recovery funding.