Kalumburu & Mitchell Falls roads

Hi All,

As the shire road report will now tell you the Kalumburu road to the Mitchell plateau turn off is now open.
There is still work in progress today on a couple of soft bits (approx 34km & 44 km North of Drysdale ) which are still sinking with the traffic use, should dry out soon.
The Mitchell plateau track is also open to under 3 ton and has been graded all the way in to the Falls car park. The other plateau tracks like to Surveyors Pool are not yet done.
Later this week work will start on the Kalumburu road from the Mitchell plateau turn off North to Kalumburu, this section of road is still closed as no work has yet been done and it is still very wet in places.
No one can yet say how long that section will take to be open as until work progresses, the time frame to fix the damage is unknown.
The Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley have a road report sign at the junction of the highway and the GR road near El Questro. I passed this the other day and found much to my disgust that it was still showing the wrong info 3 weeks after the road had opened to Drysdale. It still said road closed !
I complained and on way home 2 days later found it had been altered but in fact was still wrong as it now said road to get to Drysdale still closed and road North of Drysdale open. This of course is totally stupid, how can road North be opened if you can't get here to use it ! What it should have said by then was both sections open.
This shire sign is consistently wrong as it never seems to be updated as conditions alter, I have seen it wrong many many times over the years. I have complained many times. So if gossip along the way is saying something different to the shire road sign then you should check as there is a strong chance the sign is wrong.
I can not see the point in having the sign at all if it takes weeks after the changes to be altered. The main roads sign right beside it for the Gibb River road seems to be correctly altered in a more timely manner.

cheers, Anne