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Road Trauma and Mobile Phones

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Is Mise: I travel frequently on the Gwydir Hwy, between Inverell and Glen Innes,

Oh, you poor b@$t@#d! I just did that. Never again. Left the New England on the Bald Nob Rd & met the Gwydir Hwy on the way to Grafton with a Caravan, through to Woolgoolga. Never again. Never again.
Posted by Jayb, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 9:44:38 PM
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Sorry guys, I'm from the West so am not familiar with the rd you are talking about.
But it seems that this section of road should be reported so as to find some way of making it safer.
Are there many accidents or worse on it ,do you know?
Posted by ALTRAV, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 9:49:24 PM
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Jayb,

You have my sympathy!

The road to take to the coast is the one from Tenterfield to Casino, it's at least three times worse.

The Gwydir has only 18 kilometres of advertized bends whereas the other one has 38 kms.

One wonders what all the other twists and turns are called :-)
Posted by Is Mise, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 9:54:39 PM
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ALTRAV I can report on my once road of death, it was while now part of our national highway not so then so poorly funded, yet it took over a third of our big city's holiday traffic, speed and a shear seeming wish to get to the many coastal places killed, good road turned to goat track but some drove like it was a race track,unpleasant memory's and fear of more, saw emergency workers police, and yes road workers leave the job, some times work force mobiles, bricks in that time, had the new toy thing about them, and the device that let you put a car in cruise control killed too,many of those horrific deaths involved the very young on long late night post party trips
Posted by Belly, Thursday, 28 June 2018 7:40:29 AM
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ALTRAV,

Locals have made many reports about the Gwydir Hwy, yet for over thirty years there have been, and still are, two crests that have the broken line over them and consequently no warnings.

To add to the hazards there is now approx. 45 km of the road where there are wind turbines in towering view, have personally seen two near 'head-ons' as a driver apparently was garping at the novelty.
Posted by Is Mise, Thursday, 28 June 2018 9:50:44 AM
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Is Mise: 45 km of the road where there are wind turbines in towering view

Missed them. I was too busy concentrating on the road to look up. Boing! Boing! Boing!
Posted by Jayb, Thursday, 28 June 2018 9:58:50 AM
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