Maintaining roads is one of the main focus of the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council that has more than 900km of sealed roads and over 750km of unsealed roads in the local region.
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Mayor Tim Overall feels that getting funding for the work can sometimes be a challenge.
"Around 1500 kms of roads are part of our network of LGA. Maintaining such a big network of the road is a big task that can sometimes be affected due to funding, revenue constraints," he said.
Recently, council has committed over $70 million in road works which include repairs, reseals, re-sheeting and regular rehabilitation.
The 2019-20 bushfires and other natural disasters like drought and significant recent flood events in the past nine months have further affected the local roads in the region.
A total of $47 million in funding has been committed by the government for disaster recovery in the local area which will be used to repair an extensive list of roads across the region, primarily around Bungendore and Braidwood and surrounds.
The disaster funding is in addition to $10 million committed by the NSW Government for upgrades to Captains Flat Road and $7.2 million for Nerriga Road which has already had around $30 million committed to continuing upgrades.
Meanwhile, over $7 million has been allocated in upcoming local bridge projects and around $3 million in routine road reseals, rehabilitation and maintenance.
"I was very pleased to see the Federal Government Budget include an additional $1b investment to go to Phase 3 of the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure program to further support local councils deliver priority projects," the Mayor had said earlier.
"We look forward to being able to access some of those funds to allow us to provide the roads our community deserve."
