This has just come through – it says that the centre planting will happen in week commencing March 27….I’m guessing that is May 27. In other words two more weeks of dirt shuffling to make sure it is nice and compact….Gary

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Good morning everyone,

Welcome back to the weekly update for Anzac Station and the surrounds. See below for an update on what is happening around the site.

I hope everyone had a great weekend – and celebrated mums yesterday!

Overnight Works:

As I mentioned previously, the next major set of works will be:

• Closure of the southbound lane of St Kilda Road to asphalt the left turn lane from St Kilda Road into Domain Road.
  (Tentatively set down for week of 21 May to 24 May)
• Closure of the northbound lane of St Kilda Road to asphalt the inner lane between Toorak Road tram stop and Bowen Lane (+ completion of the bike lane adjacent to Albert Road Reserve station entrance)
  (Tentatively set down for week of 27 May to 31 June)
• The only other activity happening overnight will be the removal of the power substation from Edmund Herring Oval. As it is classified as an oversized load by VicRoads, it will need to be taken from site in the middle of the night.  No date confirmed as yet, but we’d expect it to happen the week after next at the earliest. It’s up at Edmund Herring Oval, so I wouldn’t anticipate any disruption.

Works this week

Albert Road Reserve forecourt and Station Entrance  (Works until 1am)

The South African Soldiers’ Memorial is now ticking along with the careful installation of the heritage stones.

Works are starting on the future bus stop in front of the entrance, while elsewhere we are busy getting stuff in the ground, whether it be footings for light poles, or cables to service the station. The aim is to keep our pavers rolling continuously from north to south. We’ve poured a fresh section of concrete where they’ll lay fresh bluestone pavers. Perhaps not this week, but more likely next week, we’ll start the formwork for the wide set of stairs that lead from the concourse down towards SASM.

Shrine Entrance and Domain Road (Works until 1am)

Last week we poured concrete for a section in front of the new passenger lift, it seems like an odd little spot to start the concrete, but the reason is that this lift will serve a short stint as a builders lift to take materials down to the station. This allows us to remove the existing construction lift from the station. You’ll see next week a crane in place to remove this lift, the penetration will then be covered over and backfilled.

This signals a quite a bit of change for this area, with the removal of the white covered walkways and the start of works to reinstate the footpath and landscaping on the Shrine of Remembrance side of St Kilda Road.  Elsewhere, Domain Road works continue with the start of construction of the new dual purpose tram stops on Domain Road.

Edmund Herring Oval (EHO) Demolition

The hammers have started on Edmund Herring Oval as we break out the surface area. It’s a bit of a juggle as we move things around and progressively break out the surface. We expect that this will be a 3-4 week program of breakout works.

Centre Island – St Kilda Road

The top soil is progressively being laid through this area, with planting to follow shortly after. As mentioned above, we’ll be looking to remove the traffic barriers in thew eek commencing the 27 March – so the landscaping and low-level planting through this section will need to be complete by then. City of Melbourne have confirmed that they will come through in June and plant trees through this centre island.

Thanks, Rob

Monday Flashback

Today’s photo takes us back to June 2019, as we had begun our excavation of the station box at the northern end.