I am very pleased to say that the east / west crossing of Park Street has reopened! Say goodbye to the Wells Street detour. The north / south crossing will stay closed a little while longer so that you can keep your step counts up and we can finish off a few final things.
The left turn from Park Street to St Kilda Road will reopen over the weekend.
The pedestrian crossing to the tram stop from the top of Albert Road is also open.
Next week, we will close St Kilda Road in both directions to install new street lights. More information is available here on those works.
Here is a look at what is coming up next week. Monday 24 July is a rostered day off, with things kicking off from Tuesday.
- Utility Works – Bowen Lane to Bowen Crescent
Tonight is the last of the utility crossing works between Toorak Road and Bowen Lane, majority of the work is complete. Tonight we will be asphalting until midnight.
Works continue away on the utilities between the Bowens. Next week the sewer and the water will be connected to the main system. We’re expecting to wrap the sewer, water and gas all up by the end of August and then start on the surface legacy work like kerb and road way. Things are moving slower than we would like in this area as I mentioned last week. It is a spaghetti of services in Bowen Lane.
Fit out of the chiller structures will continue until the end of the August.
- Albert Road Reserve Station entrance
Form work, steel tying, concrete pour. Form work, steel tying, concrete pour.
Form work, steel tying, concrete pour. That is what you’ll see in the Albert Road station entrance for the next little while. Right now we are working on the lining walls. Works will continue until 10pm in this area. The fit out of this entrance will largely follow the same sequence as the Shrine entrance, so next up precast elements will be arriving.
- Albert Road legacy construction
We’re still paving away the way from Albert Lake to the station entrance over on Albert road. Next week we will also investigating, moving and installing utilities. We are preparing to reopen the Kings way slow lane in early August, which will allow the partial two way arrangement on Albert Road to return.
- St Kilda Road median works – South
This week we completed the service investigations on the northbound side. As I mentioned above, St Kilda Road may as well be called Lygon Street with the spaghetti of services underneath. So the more we can find out before we crack on with main works the better.
We will start the trenching for the drainage and gas next week. We also made a fair few changes to make the traffic arrangements better for vehicles and cyclists.
On the other side of the road, works progress as they have been for a while.
- St Kilda Road median works – North
Most of this I mentioned in the opening intro. Next week will be finishing a few things off in this area and give it a good tidy up. We are hoping to be for the most part finished in this area in August.
- Station box construction
Biggest news from the station box this week is CARPET has started to be installed in some of the back of house rooms. Testing, commissioning and the various trades continue to do their thing underground.
- Shrine Entrance
The raft slab is finished! This is the support slab for the stairs and escalators into the station entrance, as well as the canopy. We’ve got a few more internal walls to do here but you’ll start to see the escalator walls and stairs go in shortly.
- Park Street to Albert Road
The pedestrian crossing across the top of Albert Road opened earlier in the week. Next week we will dig out tree pits and continue with the hard landscaping in this area.
Thanks for time, have a nice weekend
Remy and Rob
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