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Some of the more observant of you may have noticed the line marking trucks last night. They were here to mark our car bays.

The weather was actually OK but alas, there were no traffic management people to assist them. It seems they must have exhausted all their shifts managing the traffic on our footpath over the last week waiting for an asphalt truck that never arrived.

Unbelievable

Jan and I met with CYP again on Wednesday – see attached

A few things to note, some from that meeting and some from subsequent meetings.

• Five trees are still to be planted in our garden bed and 10 or 11 in the ‘chiller area’. Our garden beds trees will be planted by City of PP and the others will be done by City of Melbourne. Neither have any idea of ‘when’.
• Our trees do not have ‘cages’ around them as they will be in a garden bed . They will have wooden stakes
• The area near the chillers is VicRoads land. They have asked City of PP to manage the grass and plantings but VicRoads will manage the trees. City of PP will let a contract for the management of the grass / plants.
• The grassed area on the other side of the tram tracks is City of M.
• We have had some of our dead plants replaced this week and they have had our footpath closed for asphalt remediation work. It is not clear if the remediation has been successful. To me the three days’ work has not delivered any improvement.
• You may have noticed that there are 3 drains in our garden bed. I have been told that the drains have been set too low. Apparently, they should be set higher to allow water to pool in the ‘gravel’ area and that provides water for the plants. Hmm?? So they will be lifting those drains – and yes that might mean stomping over the recently replanted living plants……and then when the trees come my guess is that they will have to remove some plants?!?!?!!?

You may have noticed that our garden underwent a massive change today. Dead plants were replaced with other plants.

I never like being flippant on safety matters, but I think that closing one lane of St Kilda Rd, moving the bikes onto that lane, closing our footpath and moving the peds on to the bike lane…because of dangerous wheelbarrows and shovels may have been over the top.

Four hours work here in sixty seconds

Oh – yes they are still planning to plant five elm trees here….so the garden will need to be dug up for that.

Looks like they have managed to remove some of the dead plants. Smoko now

Feel free to offer them advice

Good afternoon everyone,

Welcome to our Friday look-ahead for construction activities in and around Anzac Station next week.

Overnight Works:

The rain last night means that the asphalting that was to happen on Thursday night couldn’t go ahead and will now happen tonight Friday 31 May
We’ll be working from the Toorak road tram stop heading north towards Bowen Lane.

If time permits, while the asphalt crews are out on site, we’ll also asphalt the bike lane adjacent to the Albert Road Station entrance – we’ll also look to asphalt the path on Domain Road adjacent to Melbourne Grammar, which should see the path reopen early next week.

Works next week

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

This week we poured the concrete for the stairs that are adjacent to the Albert Road Reserve station entrance (next to the Windsor Oak in the park) as well as the concrete base directly next to the entry.  No surprise that next week is pavers, pavers and more pavers – with the crews working their way along. We expect to see a mid-week concrete pour on the forecourt, followed by – you guessed it. More pavers.

Shrine Entrance and Domain Road (Works until 1am)

Because we can’t get enough of paving, next week we’ll pour the first part of concrete slab around the station entrance on the Shrine of Remembrance side to be closely followed by bluestone paving.

A heads up that we’ll also start demolishing the hardstand where the big white covered canopy was, this will be using excavators with hammers, as will allow works to commence on the footpath on this eastern side and the landscaping  leading up to the Shrine grounds

Out on Domain Road, the tram platform base is complete with works to start next week on the tram platform structure.

Edmund Herring Oval (EHO) Demolition

Nothing new at EHO, with the breakout of the hard-stand continuing this week, we’ll also continue the removal the substation from Edmund Herring Oval. This will be taken away in parts, and as mentioned previously, at least one of these parts is an oversized load – which means it will need to be removed from site after-hours to comply with VicRoads requirements. No set date on this at the moment, but I’ll advise when this is happening.

Centre Island – St Kilda Road
The fresh new look for the central island is now in place, adding a nice touch of greenery to the area. Following tonight’s asphalting, we’ll have the green light for City of Melbourne to come through and plant the trees within the central median. Tree planting on the western side will be carried out by City of Port Phillip, we’ll advise when we have some dates for this planting.

Footpath RectificationStarting next Monday we’ll be in front of The Botanica during the day to rectify some low-points in the footpath asphalt. While we do this, pedestrian traffic will be temporarily diverted into the bike lane. Once we finish these works, we’ll be able to open the bike lane and open the St Kilda Road on-street parking in front of Botanica (400 St Kilda Road)

Friday Flashback

For today’s Friday Flashback we are heading to the intersection of Bowen Lane and St Kilda Road, where in March 2019, our clam shell excavator was digging the 20m deep diaphragm walls that form the station box.

Have a great weekend

Thanks, Rob

This digger was there yesterday but gone today – click on the link below to find out HOW

Garden adjustment.mp4

Good morning everyone,

Welcome to a Monday look-ahead for construction activities in and around Anzac Station.

Overnight Works:

Last week was a bit quieter than expected after the decisions was made to delay the asphalting of the left turn lane from St Kilda Road into Domain Road. This was due to the kerbing  area not being quite ready. The rest of the asphalting scope was still completed though.

This week we’ll focus on the northbound lane of St Kilda Road, more specifically asphalting the section between the Toorak Road Tram stop and Bowen Lane. The sequence of events is roughly:

• Monday night: Barrier setup on southern side of Kings Way (to support the daytime shift to remove a temporary crossover in the median)
• Tuesday/Wednesday: Final kerb installation, removal of temporary fencing adjacent to the tram tracks and planting of vegetation (Note: Planting crews to work in all areas)
• Thursday Night: Asphalting
• Friday Night: Contingency

Works this week

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

This week we’ll install the bus shelter adjacent to the road, while around the station entrance the sea of bluestone continues to make its way through the area, we’ll have another pour for a concrete sub-base this week to allow the bluestone team to continue their good work.  We’re also progressing well on the formwork for the new stairs that will sit just to the west of the station entry. These will provide a link down to the Albert Reserve and the South African Soldiers’ Memorial. Speaking of the Memorial, this week we’ll continue the work on the central obelisk.

Shrine Entrance and Domain Road (Works until 1am)

We’re in the final stages of commissioning the electrical and plumbing around the forecourt area, this will including the installation and connection of the utility cabinets on this side of St Kilda Road (similar to those already installed on the Albert Road Side). The forecourt retaining wall is also nearing completion.

Over on Domain Road we’re getting in the asphalt for the footpath, which means it should re-opening very soon.

Edmund Herring Oval (EHO) Demolition

The breakout of the hard-stand on Edmund Herring Oval continues this week, we’ll also remove the substation from Edmund Herring Oval. This will be taken away in parts, and as mentioned previously, at least one of these parts is an oversized load – which means it will need to be removed from site after-hours to comply with VicRoads requirements. No set date on this at the moment, but I’ll advise when this is happening.

Centre Island – St Kilda Road
The fresh new look for the central island didn’t happen late last week as forecast, but we’ll definitely see the planting going in this week. We’ll also be putting in the final sections of the kerbing this week adjacent to the chiller plant.

Monday Memory Lane

This weeks Monday Memory Lane takes us way back to August 2020, when two operational lanes of St Kilda Road and Anzac Tram Stop were just drawings on a plan.
Here we can see the preparation for the concrete pour of the station roof slab, immediately adjacent to Melbourne Grammar School.