Bridge beam building begins
Work has begun to install bridge beams over the road.
Construction work did not take place on 20 July, but will for the rest of this week. Springvale Road will be closed to all traffic between 8:30am and 5pm on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 July. The northbound lanes on Springvale Road will be closed between 8:30am and 5pm on Friday 23 July.
An update from Major Road Projects Victoria read “for northbound traffic, detours will be in place via Wells Road, Governor Road and Lower Dandenong Road. Northbound traffic on the Mornington Peninsula Freeway should exit early at Frankston-Dandenong Road and detour via Greens and Hutton roads. For southbound traffic, detours will be in place via Wells Road and Governor Road, and Mornington Peninsula Freeway.
By Alesha Capone
Residents living close to the Princes Freeway in Werribee have expressed disappointment that noise barriers have not been installed as part of the Duncans Road interchange upgrade.
The state government recently announced completion of the interchange project, under the $1.8 billion Western Roads Upgrade.
However, Star Weekly published an article last year, in which a resident called for noise walls to be installed along a section of the freeway near Christina Court and surrounding streets.
The resident said “noise pollution” coming from the freeway was causing “health issues” and “mental fatigue” for him and others in the area.
VIC Premier
Drivers in Craigieburn are a step closer to safer, smoother and more reliable journeys, with a contract awarded to upgrade Craigieburn Road.
Fulton Hogan will build the project, in partnership with Major Road Projects Victoria, as part of the biggest suburban road upgrade program in Victoria’s history, boosting the state’s economy and creating thousands of jobs.
Federal Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, said the upgrade will boost capacity and cut travel times for the more than 28,000 drivers who rely on the key arterial road every day.
“Craigieburn Road is a critical link for the community in Melbourne’s north, and this upgrade will help reduce congestion and improve traffic flow for the thousands of people who travel through this area daily,” Mr Fletcher said.
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In for a penny, in for a Pound Road West Upgrade
Drivers in Dandenong South are a step closer to safer, smoother and more reliable journeys, with a contract awarded to upgrade Pound Road West.
Seymour Whyte Constructions will build the project, in partnership with Major Road Projects Victoria, as part of the biggest suburban road upgrade program in Victoria’s history, boosting the state’s economy and creating thousands of jobs.
Federal Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, said the upgrade will improve traffic flow and travel times, and reduce growing traffic pressure on South Gippsland Highway and Abbotts Road.
Sawing the Sacred: Felling the Djab Wurrung Directions Tree
Sawing the Sacred: Felling the Djab Wurrung Directions Tree
Sissy Eileen Austin,
It was a penultimate day in the Australian state of Victoria. The state government had announced that some of harshest coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the developed world would be easing. Melbourne’s restaurants, bars and cafes could resume inviting customers through their doors. Retail outlets could reopen. Confident claims of “crushing the virus” frothed and bubbled on social media.
This elevation of mood provided an ideal distraction for another ugly event. Early last week also saw the arrest of 60 people protesting the removal of a fiddleback tree deemed sacred to some members of the Djab Wurrung people. It was akin, one academic suggested, to seeing Notre Dame cathedral in Paris burn. The tree was the fruit of a practice involving the placing of a child’s placenta, with a seed, into the earth. This is not t