Illawarra Road connects Longford with the Bass Highway which runs from Launceston to the North-West Coast and is the quickest way for us to travel to Hadspen where Jamie and Nera live. It's also the shortcut for traffic travelling from the ferry terminal at Devonport to join up with the Midlands Highway heading for Hobart. It's busy at all times of the day but, especially early morning after the ferry has arrived and early-afternoons as trucks and caravans hurry to get in line for the trip to Melbourne.
It's only a B-road and all the heavy vehicles knock it about so there is always a gang doing some running repairs and we get used to seeing the signs telling us to slow down for workers. However, it seems that someone is taking seriously the need to upgrade the road. A sign has appeared informing us that roadworks will take place between March 2022 and March 2023. That's twelve or thirteen months so they could make a real difference in that time.
We've been watching the calendar ticking over with no sign of work starting, and we assumed the worst until Monday, when a demountable building was dumped in a nearby paddock and yesterday afternoon when a man with a chain-saw starting cutting down trees between the building and the road. Serious intent at last.
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