I am writing to provide you with an update regarding the planned driveway closure that was scheduled for today, Wednesday 28 June 2023. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen issues with our subcontractor and inclement weather conditions, we encountered some unexpected delays that prevented us from proceeding as initially planned.
I understand that this may cause inconvenience and frustration and apologise for the disruption this may have caused to your daily routine.
The driveway closure will take place tomorrow, Thursday 29 June as planned.
We still require a second day of driveway closure to complete the works. This will likely be Monday 3 July, 2023. This will be confirmed tomorrow at the latest.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the driveway closure or any other related matter, please do not hesitate to reach out by calling 1800 105 105 or via email at CYP@metrotunnelcyp-dc.com.au
Again, I apologise for any inconvenience caused by these unforeseen circumstances. We will continue to provide updates as soon as they become available.
While it was freezing this week (at least for a Darwin expat such as myself), it is nice to know that now the winter solstice (shortest day of the year for daylight hours) has come and gone, and we will slowly but surely, start to get a bit more daylight.
Monday 26 June is a rostered day off, so the majority of the crews will be back from the weekend on Tuesday. Here is a bit of an update on completed works and what is upcoming.
Utility Works – Bowen Lane to Bowen Crescent
Utility works in this area are set to really ramp up over the next few weeks. We are installing a watermain under St Kilda Road, close up against the footpath. There will be a few pedestrian diversions (similar to what has been seen around the Hallmark and Domain Hill) and access changes to buildings in this area. We will keep the information coming regarding this future changes.
Albert Road Reserve Station entrance
This station entrance will look largely the same for the next little while. Waterproofing is complete. Formwork, steel fixing and concrete pours are ongoing. As works at the entrance progress (much like on the Shrine side), night works will take place in the station around the Albert entrance.
Albert Road North construction
Works on the Kings Way end of Albert Road have been a focus for this area and will continue to be into next week. Breakout and demolition of the redundant roadway continue as well as the construction of the legacy linear park.
St Kilda Road median works – South
We will start service proving on the city bound side of St Kilda Road from Tuesday. This will help inform our construction methodology before works on the drainage and installation of the separated bike lanes commence here on 5 July. Once these works commence, the permanent parking removal as highlighted in yellow on the map below will be in place.
St Kilda Road median works – North
No new updates in this area, works continue to progress well and are on track to reopen mid-July.
Station box construction
Testing, commissioning, installation all continues in the station box. Platform screen door testing, commissioning of the lifts, colour back glass installation, drum lights, back-of-house room fit-out, are ongoing.
Shrine Entrance
Walls and column installation that divide the front and back of house in the entrance are underway as I mentioned last week. Installation of the new walkway and hoarding are ongoing, moving the hoarding will allow us to commence the next stage of works in this area. We will be connecting the water and power to mains this Sunday during the day.
Park Street to Albert Road
We will be coming back to work on the recently opened new footpath this area on Tuesday to undergo some rectification works. The previous pedestrian arrangement that was implemented in May will be in effect. Pedestrians on the southern footpath of St Kilda Road will be diverted onto a temporary footpath on the roadway while the footpath works take place. As with last time, pedestrian access to Domain Hill and The Hallmark maintained at all times.
It has been a short week on site with a lot of activity! Sites on Albert and St Kilda roads have shuffled and changed this week as we moved into the next stage of works for those areas.
Utility Works – Bowen Lane to Bowen Crescent
This week the precast concrete sections of the maintenance hatch arrived and were installed. There will be some changes to the site layout and pedestrian access from Monday in this area as we begin to work on the water main installation. We will skinny up the bike lane on Bowen Crescent and close the pram ramp on the corner. The next pram ramp is about 50m down towards Kings Way, about a 118m detour in total.
Albert Road Reserve Station entrance
Steel fixing for the concrete base slab of the Albert Reserve entrance will be the focus for the next little while. Steel fixing is the process of positioning steel rods to reinforce the concrete. If you cast your mind back to when the roof slabs were poured you may remember this process.
Albert Road North construction
Albert Road is looking very different to when last weeks email was sent out. As mentioned last week, the bluestone footpath down to Kings Way is now open.
Albert Road is now one way between Kings Way and St Kilda Road. This will be in place for approx. 5 weeks while the Kings Way slow lane closure is in place. We will be doing some line marking tonight to make pedestrian and vehicle access clear.
We are building the kerb at the Kings Way / Albert Road section into its legacy position. Once the kerb is complete, two way traffic from Kettle Black to Kings Way will return. Two-way access to The Domain and Ramsay Clinic is currently in place and will remain.
There will be a lot of breakout and demolition of the redundant roadway for the next little while to make way for the construction of the legacy linear park.
St Kilda Road median works – South
Overnight work on St Kilda Road southbound took place last night and will again tonight. The team made a lot of progress last night with line marking, trenching and barrier moving to the final tasks remaining for tonight.
The second chiller plant was installed day, fit out of the chiller structures is ongoing.
St Kilda Road median works – North
Excellent progress has been made between Park Street and Dorcas Street, navigating the spaghetti of services underground in the area. Works to install the drainage, sewerage and stormwater connections on the corner will continue until mid-July. This works activity is hard to miss! Works are continuing on the East side of St Kilda Road, as we connect drainage and irrigation.
Station box construction
Installation of architectural glass on B2 has commenced. Otherwise largely the same back-of-house fit out continuing into next week and beyond.
Shrine Entrance
We reached the milestone of pouring all the internal walls (photo below). You’ll start to see 6m long precast columns arrive. These columns will separate the back and front of house stairs in the Shrine Entrance.
Park Street to Albert Road
We are working away to complete the footpath from the Domain Hill/ Hallmark up to the tram crossing. This is looking to be done early next week and hoping to open it as soon as possible.
Welcome to our look ahead for works happening out in the Domain Precinct next week. Just a reminder that next Monday is the Kings Birthday long weekend, followed by an RDO the next day, so a fairly short look ahead for next week!
Just a note for anyone who witnessed some of the drama on St Kilda Road on Wednesday morning, when a large truck carrying another large truck seemingly took a wrong turn onto St Kilda Road city-bound and ended up stuck at the tram wires across Park Street. Rest assured that this wasn’t a project vehicle, we are very much aware where the tram wires are on St Kilda Road, having gone to significant effort to install them last year.
We understand that with some assistance, the truck was removed at around 1am the following morning.
Utility Works – Bowen Lane to Bowen Crescent
The completion of works to connect the last section of the station wall to the station roof, the focus will switch to the utility works happening through the area.
We’ll see an NDD truck parked up on the corner of Bowen Lane and St Kilda Road next week identifying the existing services in this location ahead of excavation.
There will also be a crane parked up in the area to lower in the precast concrete sections for the maintenance access hatch into the station.
Albert Road Reserve Station entrance
The works on the entrance are continuing at good pace. We’ve completed the last of the excavation for this entrance – which also means that we’ve completed all bulk excavation for Anzac Station, a significant milestone in itself. Next week the focus will remain on steel fixing at the base of the entrance.
Albert Road North construction
The paving works have almost made their way entirely down to Kings Way, we’d expect by Tuesday that we’ll have the footpath reopen in its entirety, with the temporary fencing moved to the outer edge of the paving. This will be in time for the our major change on Albert Road, which will see the closure of the westbound lane of traffic out to Kings Way on Wednesday night (This westbound lane is the site of the future landscaping and gardens in the legacy design).
This means that on Thursday morning, Albert Road will become a one-way road from Kings Way through to St Kilda Road (with access retained to the Ramsay Clinic and The Domain)
It also means that we’ll start work at the intersection of Kings Way and Albert Road as we continue the build of westbound lane of Albert Road on its new alignment (In the final design, traffic will exit Albert Road just to the left of the remaining palm tree)
St Kilda Road median works – South
Despite the short week, there is a bit of activity down at the southern end of site next week. We’ll be doing some overnight work on St Kilda Road southbound, which means it will be closed from 8pm Thursday night to 5am Friday morning, and then again from 8pm Friday night to 5am Saturday morning. In this time we’ll be trenching a new VicRoads service connection across the road at the Toorak Road intersection, while also laying some temporary asphalt in the kerb between the pedestrian lights and Toorak Road and shifting the traffic barriers here. This will also see the final three parks as part of the Stage 1 parking removal implemented through this section.
Over at the chiller plant locations, we’ll be delivering the last of the internal plant for the chiller structure on Friday next week, which will be followed by the internal fitout of the structures after that.
St Kilda Road median works – North
Moving down to the works between Park Street an Dorcas Street, anyone who has walked past this area will have seen that the team have made short work of excavating the area for the final set of works. This has allowed the start of the installation of drainage, sewerage and stormwater connections on the corner – while next week we’ll continue the final kerb layout that began this week. The level of the road in this area changes slightly, which is why the area has been excavated to the extent that you see out there today.
Meanwhile, over on the East side of St Kilda Road, we’ll begin the final connections of the drainage and irrigation in the bike lane, adjacent to the temporarily closed pedestrian crossing
Station box construction
Nothing new to report downstairs for next week.
Shrine Entrance
Next week the team will hit another milestone over at the Shrine entrance with the last of the internal walls to be poured. The relocated site hoarding is also coming together, the team was out on site today doing measurements for the artwork installation for both the future wooden hoarding through the area, and the short section of covered walkway that will extend over the existing asphalt path.
Park Street to Albert Road
This week the team have all but completed the new paving on the Hallmark service driveway, once cure this will be ready to reopen on Wednesday next week when the teams return to site.
If you’ve walked along the newly completed path you might have noticed some water pooling in a section of the footpath. It hasn’t gone unnoticed at our end too, and after some investigations it appears that the levels in this area are slightly off. Unfortunately this means that we’ll need to get back into this section and relay some of the paving. It is unfortunate, but this is the legacy design and its important that it is built to a high standard. We’ll likely come back the week after next to complete the rectification works here
The section of future landscaping in front of Domain Hill is still undergoing some works and the this week we’ve been working on conduit installs for both CitiPower and VicRoads utilities connections. Next week we will likely remove the now disconnected light post on the corner, which will be followed shortly thereafter by the installation of two new poles further towards St Kilda Road. One for a future crossing button and the other for the replacement light pole for this section.
Late next week, early the following week will also see a section of bike separator median installed at the top of Albert Road near the future crossing point.
The Botanica 
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