The Eyre Developmental Road is a gazetted road in south-west

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

that runs from

Bedourie Bedourie is a town and a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. It is on the Queensland borders, border with the Northern Territory. In the , the locality of Bedourie had a population of 1 ...

Birdsville Birdsville is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Diamantina, Queensland, Australia. The locality is on the Queensland border with both the Northern Territory and South Australia. The town is situated north of the South Australian bord ...

and then to the border with

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, where it continues as the

Birdsville Track The Birdsville Track is an outback road in Australia. The track runs between Birdsville in south-western Queensland and Marree, a small town in the north-eastern part of South Australia. It traverses three deserts along the route, the Strzel ...

.Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps
/ref> At the northern end it joins the Diamantina Developmental Road, and the mostly unsealed road crosses the

Georgina River The Georgina River is the north-westernmost of the three major rivers of the Channel Country in Central West Queensland, that also flows through a portion of the Northern Territory, in central Australia. Part of the Lake Eyre basin, the Georg ...

and

Diamantina River The Diamantina River is a major river in Central West Queensland and the far north of South Australia. The river was named by William Landsborough in 1866 for Lady Diamantina Bowen (née Roma), wife of Sir George Bowen, the first Governor of Qu ...

. Maintenance of the road is the responsibility of the Queensland State Government. The road intersects with the

Birdsville Developmental Road The Birdsville Developmental Road (State Route 14) is a mostly unsealed road in south-west Queensland that branches off the Diamantina Developmental Road at a point west of Windorah and runs to Birdsville. Its length is . The road crosses a ...

in Birdsville.

Upgrades

Pave and seal

A project to pave and seal of road south of Bedourie, at a cost of $10 million, was expected to complete in early 2022. A project to pave and seal about of road north of Birdsville, at a cost of $4.5 million, was expected to finish in late 2022.

References

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