LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY
- Magnetic Community News
- 5 hours ago
- 1 min read
For those two and a half thousand people who signed the petition for the reopening of the Radical Bay Road in 2019 (which was binned by our then member for Townsville Scott Stewart) and those who also want the reopening, it’s time we did something definitive.
Adam Baillie promised the road reopening in his election platform, but acting mayor Annmaree Greaney publicly says that when the money arrives she is going to spend it on other projects.
Adam Baillie said last Saturday that she wouldn’t be able to do this, but we have all seen the council’s skill in doing exactly what they want, despite what the people want. Look what happened to the Australian Festival of Chamber Music – thanks to our council’s mismanagement it’s off to Cairns.
Adam Baillie will have a stall at the Horseshoe Bay market this Sunday, if you want to be able to get to the three best beaches on our island by road – many of us can’t walk that distance and don’t have a boat – drop by and make sure he knows how much we want it.
There are sure to be plenty of greenies who will try to convince him otherwise under the pretence of “environmental protection”, so we need to make sure that he hears from the majority who have been cut off for all this time.
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Magnetic Island
I have two questions about this proposal.
Currently, if you drive or walk down the track there is no way to access the beach at Radical Bay except by crossing over private freehold land (or beating a way through the bush at the edges). There is an unmarked proposed formal 5m wide "pathway", once expected to be a boardwalk, around the eastern side of the private property to the beachfront. Never been built, does not exist. So currently no public access unless this "pathway" is constructed. Does the state government intend to construct this access?
The existing 3.5km 'track' from the Forts car park is located on Unallocated State Land (USL, used to be called Vacant Crown Land). It is…