It was a very odd process?? Lots of walking up and down checking / looking for something.

You will notice that they have been painted and the road lanes have been moved across.

Apparently CYP need to do some more work on our footpath and it would be inconvenient for them to open the car bays and then have to close them to re-route peds.

Bays should be open and available next Monday…unless people move the bollards

This is still the plan for trees – five in front of us (I think they are waiting for the garden to become established before digging it up), two in front of 390 SKR and 10-11 in the middle near the chillers.

Here is a close up of our section

No word on our parking bays out the front

No word on trees in the middle or out the front

No word on releasing the parking bays in Albert Rd

No word on the wrong sign

…..and have a good long weekend – surely not another one?!?!?!

Good evening everyone,

Not an overly productive week this week, with the public holiday, RDO and intermittent rain.
Despite this, we still managed to get a bit done around the site.
See below for the lookahead of all things construction in Domain next week

Overnight Works:

The only possible nightworks next week is some minor line-marking works on St Kilda Road. The team wont need to close any roads or driveways, so they’ll take the opportunity when the weather is right from Sunday next week. The works are minor and aren’t expected to generate any disturbance.

Looking further ahead, we will have some overnight works in the first week of July. This is the asphalting of the left turn from St Kilda Road into Domain Road.
While we’re out and about that night, we’ll also install the permanent tactiles at the south western pedestrian crossing to the tram stop (near Bowen Lane) as well as remove the temporary fencing that runs alongside the tram tracks.

Works next week

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

I’m running out of interesting ways to say that we’ll be doing bluestone paving, but rest assured, there is more bluestone paving ahead of us.

Elsewhere though, we’re about to start work on a retaining wall that delineates Albert Road South from the station concourse. This started this week and will continue into next week, with some formwork and concrete pours.

Meanwhile, the South African Soldiers’ Memorial continues to make its way upward.

Shrine Entrance and Domain Road (Works until 1am)

At the Shrine entrance, its more of the same, with breakout of the concrete working surface adjacent to the new lift shaft. This area has cleared out nicely though, and we’ll begin the surface preparation shortly for the new footpath connection into the Shrine grounds, as well as the landscaping in the area.

Out on Domain Road, work continues on the installation of the dual tram/bus platforms.

Edmund Herring Oval (EHO) Demolition

As mentioned last week, we’re all but done on the breakout of the main hard surface on EHO. All that remains is the roadway that is in place, as well as the base that currently sits underneath the old substation on EHO. This is progressively being dismantled and removed, to be taken off site and re-used elsewhere. Once its gone, we’ll break out the final section of concrete base that it was sitting on.

Friday Flashback

For today’s Friday Flashback we are travelling back to November 2021 and a cross section look at Anzac Station. This logistic void in the station roof stretched down from surface, past the concourse level and down to the base slab and provides us with a good look at the scale of the structure underneath St Kilda Road.

Have a great long weekend

Thanks, Rob

Great folk music and pizza

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