Good morning everyone,

It’s that time of the week again where we dive into everything happening in the Domain Precinct.
For those of you without the RDO calendar up on your fridge – a reminder that Monday 8 July is a rostered day off – so no works.

Overnight Works:

One week down of the fortnight of night time asphalting and odd-job works. Next week is the start of asphalting week, and weather permitting, we’ll see the following activities take place:

• Asphalting the left turn from St Kilda Road into Domain Road (Tue Night + Bike Lane)
• Cutting and Installation of slots for car detector loops at traffic lights (Thursday night)
• NDD works at the corner of Bowen Crescent and St Kilda Road to lower a fire hydrant (Overnight on Thursday 11 July)
• Barrier removal on Northbound lanes (Inbound Barriers, Outbound barriers Thursday night)
• Installation of pedestrian crossing tactiles at St Kilda Road pedestrian crossing (Bowen Lane and Toorak Road)

Works next week

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

If you were walking past Albert Road Reserve at the right time this week you may have seen four lions suspended in mid air at various times. These are part of the South African Soldiers’ Memorial, and now take pride of place on  each corner of the monument. Next week will be some detailing work done on the memorial, before the following week the scaffolding comes down to reveal the entire monument.

Elsewhere, the paving continues up on the concourse level, along with the light poles within Albert Reserve. The retaining wall that will site alongside the new Albert Road South is coming along nicely and will see some work on it next week as well.

Shrine Entrance and Domain Road (Works until 1am)

The landscaping and path construction adjacent to the Cobbers Memorial is progressing at a good pace, with asphalt also due next week for the legacy footpath that runs along the western edge of St Kilda Road, between Park Street and Domain Road. There will also be a new pedestrian connection leading up to Cobbers and the Shrine of Remembrance.
The asphalt for the pedestrian footpath is currently planned for day shift on Thursday, and we’ll also start putting down some turf in this area.

On Domain Road the drainage installation is nearly done and the tram stop construction is in the same boat. The drainage completion will allow works to start on the footpath on the northern side of Domain Road. We had hoped to complete the footpath on the southern side (adjacent to Melbourne Grammar School) the delayed relocation of one pesky overhead communications wire has scuppered those plans. The wire is now scheduled with its owner for this week, meaning the footpath completion will likely need to happen overnight outside school hours in the coming weeks.

Edmund Herring Oval (EHO) Demolition

EHO is a story of two halves at the moment, the grading and surface preparation has just begun on one side of the oval, while the other side there is still some works to be done to remove all remnants of the previous site offices and support site for the tunnelling in the East. Next week will be much of the same up at EHO.

Sunday Snap

Now that we’re on the cusp of completion of the western footpath and connection into the Shrine of Remembrance, I thought this week I’d share a nice evening shot from 2018, when we had just begun the construction of the station walls in the northern section of the station box.

You can see St Kilda Road realigned to the west to allow the construction of the station box, as well as the Windsor Oak tree in Albert Reserve (bottom left of the shot), which is now adjacent to the new Albert Road Reserve Station entrance.

Have a great week

Thanks, Rob