00:02A wild weather season that has left its mark on key road networks.
00:07For transport workers, damaged highways come at a hefty cost.
00:12We're frustrated because driving on the sealed network
00:16shouldn't be costing us as much in repairs and maintenance
00:19as it does driving on the unsealed road networks.
00:22For some operators that operate in a different realm of
00:25oversize, over mass, that's their income that they've lost for the last two months.
00:31The agriculture industry too, feeling the pressure.
00:34The impact that it's having on industry is quite catastrophic.
00:39Pastoralists are panging the waiting game.
00:41Unable to fix flood damaged infrastructure or move their cattle on.
00:46We're trying to recover from a significant weather event.
00:49We're trying to get on with our businesses
00:51but we also importantly can't access our markets
00:54which is how we keep that cash flow going.
00:56Construction works are underway across territory roads
01:00but stakeholders say it's not happening fast enough
01:03and that the Federal Government needs to step in.
01:07Every one of those top four sectors of our economy depends on roads
01:12and it won't happen if we don't get better Federal Government buy-in
01:16and support to make our roads sustainable, liveable
01:19and roads that survive the tropics.
01:22A long road ahead to get the Territory moving.
01:24A long road ahead to get the Territory moving.
01:25A long road ahead to get the Territory moving.
01:26To get the Territory moving.ows
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