CYP – the week ahead | The Botanica

What a beautiful day! Spring really is just around the corner.

The precinct has seen a lot of change over the last week. We have removed the barriers from Dorcas to Park street, reopening the Kings Way slow lane, shifted the barriers between Park Street and Melbourne Grammar School to start the legacy road work and have begun the two week closure of Albert Road at the St Kilda Road end.

Next week will be just as busy, lets take a look at what is coming up.

Utility Works – Bowen Lane to Bowen Crescent

We are getting ready to rebuild the kerbs and roadway of Bowen Lane. You will have noticed a common theme in these weekly updates, largely being that we’re having a lot of trouble with services in this area. Unfortunately Bowen Lane won’t open by the end of the month, it is now looking more like 9 September. We will let you know how this is tracking next week.

Albert Road Reserve Station entrance

Nothing new to report in the station entrance, it’s more of the same as the team continue the steel fixing and concrete pours for the station walls. We have poured seven of the walls so far, we’ve included a picture of the formwork below.

Albert Road legacy construction (Major Works)

Just as this week, next week a lot of energy and resources will be sent to Albert Road.

I hope everyone is getting around the site and the pedestrian detours ok. There will be some changes over the weekend so keep an eye out for updated signage as you make your way through the site. From Monday the final driveway will close and will have access to the full works area.

Next week:

Installation of the final drainage connections
Excavation of the existing roadway
Construction of the legacy kerb and separated bike lanes

This closure will be in place until 7 September.

St Kilda Road median works – South (Night works)

On the southbound side, works to investigate and prepare the site have been going well. The team will start to trench from next week and install the drainage pieces.

On the other side of the road, drainage install will continue next week and then the team will move onto installing the separated bike lanes and reinstating the road.

A new compound was intended to be set up earlier in the week south of Kings Way / Toorak Road but these have been rescheduled to Tuesday 29 August. The new site will be in place for about six weeks where we will, again, install new drainage and separated bike lanes. One night of works is required to move barriers into place, then day works only until we need to remove the barriers. A closure of St Kilda Road northbound is required for these works.

St Kilda Road median works – North

You may have noticed the barrier free area between Dorcas and Park. It is looking very green in the northern end of the job. We will still be hanging around this area to finish a few things off. The pedestrian east / west crossing at Park and St Kilda Road will need to close for a few days sometime soon to allow the finishing touches.

Station box construction

The station works remain fairly consistent, with granite paving going down on the train platform and the fitout works for individual rooms continuing on the concourse level. A picture of the paving is below.

Shrine Entrance

Today we poured the first section of the stairs at the Shrine entrance! Below is a picture of the before, we will include an after shot in next weeks update.