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Ambitious plans for Spotswood and South Kingsville
A ‘GreenLine’ enabling residents to cycle to the city in 20 minutes, a major revamp of the Spotswood industrial area and extended 40 km/h zones in activity centre streets are just some of the ideas being considered in the next phase of the Better Places Spotswood and South Kingsville program.
After several months of community consultation, the Better Places initiative has developed 16 place-based projects to make Spotswood and South Kingsville even better places to live, work and visit.
The projects are:
The GreenLine: Shared pathways running through the heart of Spotswood and South Kingsville linking key destinations in an active transport corridor, including the Federation Trail and proposed West Gate Tunnel Veloway.
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Deakin University scientists have developed a cost-effective way to address the worldwide shortage of fine aggregate used in concrete, while also eliminating the need to dump millions of tonnes of contaminated soil into landfill.
Constructions sites worldwide are removing tonnes of per-and poly-fluoroalkyl (PFAS) contaminated soil and sending it to landfill. Landfilling is expensive and, as seen in Melbourne with its problems getting rid of PFAS-contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel and Rail Tunnel projects, raises concerns around long term health and environmental exposure by PFAS.
PFAS compounds, produced in large quantities by various industries worldwide, for example in firefighting foaming agents and manufacture of carpets, are now present in soil, air, surface water, groundwater and in some places, drinking water. Currently, thermal destruction treatment is the only way to completely decontaminate PFAS polluted soil, which effectively ruins the soil and makes it
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Victoria’s longest road tunnels, to be built as part of the $15.8 billion North East Link, would be extended even further under a private sector bid that has been favoured by the Andrews government.
The Andrews and Morrison governments, which are co-funding the project linking the Metropolitan Ring Road to the Eastern Freesay, have announced their preferred consortium to negotiate the $7-$9 billion contract to build tunnels beneath the Yarra River and Banyule Flats, and interchanges at Manningham Road and Lower Plenty Road in Melbourne’s north-east.
The Spark consortium, led by Milan-based WeBuild (formerly Salini Impregilo), submitted a bid that pitched extending the project’s twin three-lane tunnels, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the bid who spoke on the condition of anonymity.