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Highlights

• 236 projects were delivered statewide through the Regional Roads and Transport Groups, with joint investment of over $120 million in local roads, marine infrastructure, safer school drop-off areas and active transport infrastructure.
• Funded $4.02 million for 56 school buses and $1.35 million for 45 Specialist School Buses for Students with Disabilities Transport through the School Bus Upgrade Scheme (SchoolBUS).
• Introduced the Transport Legislation (Disability Parking and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2019.
• Provided $312.51 million in concessions and assistance to pensioners and seniors, veterans, students, people with a disability and their carers, job seekers, and asylum seekers to make public transport more affordable.
• Commissioned the Toowoomba Bypass.
• Delivered capital works and an effective Event Transport Management Plan for the new Queensland Country Bank Stadium in Townsville.
• Completed reconstruction and betterment works on the Flinders Highway in Queensland's north west, following the north and far north Queensland's unprecedented flooding.
• Worked to stabilise bushfire-damaged slopes on Binna Burra Road after severe bushfires swept through the Gold Coast hinterland.
• Invested in technological solutions, including the Roadside Bushfire Risk Assessment Model (RBRAM).
• The War on Wrecks Taskforce removed 609 derelict wrecks from Queensland waters.
• Completed the last of a $3.8 million series of radar upgrades installations at Port Cartwright (Mooloolaba), Woorim (Bribie Island), and Nudgee (north of the mouth of the Brisbane River).
• Launched the Queensland Road Safety Action Plan 2020–21 under the current Queensland Road Safety Strategy.
• Hosted Queensland Road Safety Week and sponsored Fatality Free Friday in May.
• Trialling a new camera technology designed to detect when drivers are using their mobile phones illegally while driving.
• Delivered the #LiftLegend drink driving campaign.
• Created the first statewide OneTMR Heritage Places Asset Register.
• Delivered major projects aligned with Reef 2050 Plan commitments, including the recently completed Cairns Shipping Development Project and the Townsville Channel Capacity Upgrade project.
• Director General, Neil Scales, led the Australian Delegation to the World Road Congress in Abu Dhabi.
• Ran over 130,000 New Generation Rollingstock passenger services over more than eight million in service kilometres.