What we’re doing

We’ve been working in your neighbourhood for more than two months now. Thank you for your patience, hospitality and understanding.

SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES

Roadworks are really challenging for businesses. You can help out local business by continuing to visit – it might mean parking a little further away and walking, but your custom will be appreciated.

GRASSMERE STREET

Work is all go on Grassmere Street; we’ve installed new storm water pipes, replaced the kerb and channel (gutter) and we’re now rebuilding the footpath. We’re also replacing the kerb and channel and footpath on Main North Road opposite Grassmere Street.

Grassmere Street continued

We’ve found coal tar (a hazardous material commonly used as an aggregate binder up until about 1960) under the road surface. This will unfortunately slow our progress when rebuilding the road surface because we need to carefully remove it and take it away. We still expect to finish work by Easter as originally planned.

MAIN NORTH ROAD

Storm water work

Work is going slowly; so far we’ve removed the old asbestos pipe and installed the new pipe between the Langdons Road intersection and Baby Factory.

You might wonder why we’ve been stopping and starting work so much - work is slow because of the number of underground services which conflict with where we want to put the new stormwater pipe. Council designers are on site regularly working with us to figure out where the new pipe can go.

We’ll continue working northward, and once we’ve replaced the pipe past the southern entrance to the mall, we’ll start building the new kerb and portions of the footpath.

Traffic signal upgrades – mall entrance

We’re carrying out some more night time investigation works at the mall entrance this week, to help determine where the new traffic signal poles will go.

Main North Road is as busy underground as it is above ground (see image, right), making the installation of new infrastructure a very complex exercise.

Every new traffic signal is installed on a new pole, which each needs a new concrete foundation, almost a cubic metre in size. Unlike the old poles, the new ones will be socketed, making it easy to maintain and replace them in future.

Traffic signal upgrades – Langdons Road

We’ve done some cabling work for the new traffic signals at the Langdons Road intersection – you’ll see some more activity this week on the Westpac corner.

WINSTON AVENUE - BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS

Thank you very much to the patient business owners and workers along Winston Avenue. We were very lucky to have good weather and a lovely community to work in.

Here are a couple of before and after photos – we hope you enjoy your new street!

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