Trial Cassowary Crossing

From left, Alex Smith (alexsmith.tv), Kym Charlton (TMR), and local resident Jason Shearer

The Transport and Main Roads (TMR) department media team  visited  the  Cassowary Coast this week  ahead of a traffic management trial planned for the worst cassowary  road death  hotspot on  to Mission Beach. 

It is hoped the outcome of the trial will help understand more about how the unnacceptable number of cassowaries being killed on Mission Beach Roads can be addressed. Kym and Alex saw first hand the difficulty cassowaries have crossing roads and were impressed by the community action in response to 2 of Yellow Knees three chicks being another road statistic despite the best efforts of TMR and  the community to alert drivers  of the likelihood of  the birds regular crossing of the road.