Category: Daintree River Crossing Options
Could the Daintree Bridge increase your rates?
Learn why a proposed Daintree Bridge may saddle the Douglas Shire Council and its ratepayers with over $60 million in debt…
Daintree River Bridge Options Paper is “woefully inadequate”
The Daintree River Crossing Options Assessment Report, while meeting basic Council requirements, is woefully inadequate for such an environmentally sensitive area, and will undoubtedly receive national and international scrutiny and criticism.”
Daintree River Crossing Issue 2 / Bridge Options Costs and Other Considerations
This article investigates the costings and issues associated with the four bridge options presented in Douglas Shire Council’s Daintree River Crossing – Options Assessment Report released in August 2020. (see References below). According to estimates, the lowest cost bridge option would be around $53 million with the other options being considerably more. The two ferry option will only cost $2.8 million and this will be rapidly recovered through ferry charges.
Daintree River Crossing Issue 1 / The Options Report
At the Douglas Shire Council Meeting held Tuesday 25 August, 2020, Council made its first tentative steps in the debate with a decision to release a consultation paper on the crossing of the Daintree River.
Daintree River Crossing / Ferry or Bridge?
MEDIA RELEASE BY DOUGLAS SHIRE COUNCIL Replacing the ferry service with a bridge over the Daintree River has been debated passionately in the community for…
Douglas Shire Council / People-Free Public Consultation
Douglas Shire Council holds secret meeting to decide upon public consultation. Before Douglas Shire Council at tomorrow’s Ordinary Meeting is a recommendation for another round of public consultation concerning whether a bridge should replace the Daintree River ferry.
PERSPECTIVES / Daintree Interdependence
The Daintree Coast contains some iconic and familiar landscapes, from the wet tropical rainforests to the Great Barrier Reef, and the complicated labyrinth of mangrove systems in between. What most people don’t know is that these various systems are intricately interdependent. In reality they are not separate systems at all, but three parts of a fantastically complex whole.