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Pacific Highway carnage

The Pacific Highway in Northern NSW is the scene of many fatal accidents every year.

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9:53 AM Feb 14th

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Pacific Highway up for auction

John O'Gorman is attracting online traffic with his unusual eBay sale of the Pacific Highway.

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Terry Deefholts

BUYING things through eBay is fraught with risks, but if you're bidding on a section of the Pacific Highway you may well be biting off more than you can...

Doubt over Pacific Hwy funding

The RTA has confirmed that $10 million had been “allocated to further progress planning on the Woolgoolga to Ballina section of the Pacific Highway” out of the $3.6 billion currently committed by governments for various projects between Hexham and the Queensland border.

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JUST $10 million has been allocated to local Pacific Highway upgrades out of a total budget of $3.6 billion.

Pacific Highway scares truckies

Mills Transport driver Dom Ciani of Crabbes Creek has had years of experience driving trucks on the Pacific Highway, but now avoids driving south of Ballina because of its treacherous state.

NSW
Ava Benny-Morrison

SOME truckies refuse to brave the nation's most dangerous stretch of bitumen - the Pacific Highway between Ballina and Kempsey.

Doctors protest highway carnage

A group of doctors, some who attended the deadly 1989 Cowper bus crash, will hold a public meeting to campaign against the poor condition of the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey.

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A GROUP of 65 North Coast doctors will stage a public meeting this Saturday to bring attention to a notoriously dangerous stretch of the Pacific...

Pacific Highway plan questioned

The NSW Opposition has vowed to make the Pacific Highway upgrade a priority following criticism from outgoing taskforce chairman Richie Williamson.

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THE NSW Opposition would not put a 'time or date' on when or how much funding they would commit to the problematic Pacific Highway upgrade.

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