Good afternoon everyone,

For the Collingwood Magpies, Brisbane Lions, Penrith Panthers and Brisbane Broncos fans reading this, best of luck to you over the weekend!

While it’s a big weekend for sport, it will be quiet on site with works not returning until Tuesday 3 October.

1. Albert Road legacy construction

Next week works on the Albert Reserve Forecourt will begin. This is the area between the current entrance construction and the Albert Road / St Kilda Road intersection. On Wednesday night (4/10) we will have a crane working for an hour of so on St Kilda Road to move some of the barriers to implement a new construction access gate. Soft and hard landscaping will continue closer to Kings Way.

2. Albert Road Reserve Station Entrance

This week, crews have been working up to 1am in the Albert Road entrance. After 10pm, works are significantly reduced to below road level with hand tools only. These 1am finishes will continue into next week and until the roof slab in poured later next month.

3. Station Fitout

I hope you enjoyed the photos from last week, not much further to update here.

4. Shrine Entrance

The backfilling and breakout of the logistic void is now complete. The drainage and services crews will mobilise starting next week. Steel fixing and pours continue within the station entrance.

5. St Kilda Road – Bowen Lane to Bowen Crescent

Still no update on the reopening of Bowen Lane.  Remaining works include the installation of the strata vault, kerbs, footpath and road ways.  Next week City of Melbourne will be in to plant the next batch of trees in the median across from Melbourne Grammar School. Once this section is planted and landscaped we should be able to remove the barriers through this section and we’re also looking to open the legacy parking that will be in place in front of Melbourne Grammar. We’ll confirm once we have a date for this barrier removal and line marking.

6. St Kilda Road Bowen Crescent to Toorak Road

Northbound Side (Towards City)

This section is very near to completion with just the final touches remaining on the installation of the separated bike lanes. The smaller site south of Kings Way/ Toorak Road is on track to reopen in Mid-October.

Southbound side (Away from City)

The pedestrian crossing near the Royce to the tram stop has now reopened and today the crews were in place doing the last of the works on the pesky gas line that was at the wrong height.  As mentioned previously, this will enable the crews to head to the southern end of this section at Toorak Road and begin the installation of the drainage working their way back towards the city. The pedestrian crossing at from Subway to the tram stop will close for about a week to let these works safely take place as we install the new drainage across the ped crossing. We are working away to be out of this area by the end of October.

Enjoy the long weekend,

Thanks, Rob and Remy