Fixing Local Roads program provides $875,000 to Uralla Shire Council for Hawthorne Drive | The Armidale Express

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EFFORTS to improve safety and entice tourists to picturesque Hawthorne Drive in the Uralla Shire are ‘trucking along’. Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall yesterday announced $875,000 in joint State and Commonwealth funding, through round two of the Fixing Local Roads program. Work has now started on improvements to a two-kilometre section of Hawthorne Drive, funded by $516,000, through round one of Fixing Local Roads. This takes the total financial contribution to $1.3 million. READ MORE: This latest tranche of funding will be spent removing the existing seal on a 3.15 kilometre stretch of roadway and strengthening the pavement by adding additional quality road base. The surface will then be widened, reshaped and…