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Register for news updatesRecent developments on Atherton Tablelands trails
With the recent rail trail activity in the southern states, we are pleased to report that the two councils in Far North Queensland, Tableland Regional Council (TRC) and Mareeba Shire Council (MSC), are actively getting on board.
TRC has recently reinstated a rail trail advisory committee comprising two councillors and an active cohort of 12 cyclists/users.
The primary purposes of the committee will be:
– inform a strategic and long-term approach to Rail Trail management and development in the region
– facilitate and improve comms. between various groups
– facilitate and inform external grant funding opportunities
A trail audit has recently been undertaken and we look forward to working with TRC in upgrading trail facilities.
Other good news is the recent resheeting by TRC of a 1.75km ‘showpiece’ section of the Atherton Tablelands Rail Trail in far north Queensland from Atherton towards Tolga.
This section of the trail has been transformed over the past year by the T4 volunteer group (short for Tableland Tracks, Trails and Trees). The group has effectively completed the Queens Jubilee program with 2250 Mabi trees planted and having invested approx. 1100 volunteers hours of planting, watering and mulching on the rail corridor. This sector of the trail has been revitalised by attractive tree copses, which in a few years, will provide beneficial shade and an improved wildlife corridor for all users.
With Mareeba Shire Council actively engaging with the cycle/user fraternity and recently refurbishing a 7.5km section, the last 7km sector of the Atherton Tablelands Rail Trail is not far from refurbishment and completion. Given the above good news we look forward to our region having a safe 35km rail trail between Mareeba and Atherton in the short term. Finally the Atherton Herberton Historic Rail/shared trail, which heads south toward Herberton, is also gaining momentum and the 3.3km already completed is increasingly used by cyclists and walkers.
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