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Torrens to Darlington launch site revealed
The Torrens to Darlington (T2D) tunnels will “launch” from a purpose-built site near Tonsley Boulevard in Clovelly Park.
Known as the southern laydown area, this site will be used to assemble two tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) that will dig 4 kilometres of tunnels for the new 6 kilometre motorway, which will ultimately connect Darlington to Anzac Highway.
The site will also provide facilities to support tunnel-boring operations, such as workshops, storage facilities, tunnel access paths and transport routes.
Federal Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, said today’s announcement signified an important milestone in the delivery of the project.
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Federal budget infrastructure spending will build on the boom that’s already taking place across the South Australian residential marketplace, according to a real estate network’s GM.
James Trimble is the general manager at Raine & Horne South Australia and he said the state is already benefiting from infrastructure development, but the promise of further funding particularly for better roads will make property demand even greater.
“There’s a saying that ‘build it and they will come’, a notion supporting the government’s $2.6 billion funding for the North-South Corridor – Darlington to Anzac Highway and other projects such as $148 million for the Augusta Highway Duplication Stage 2,” he said.
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Torrens to Darlington project creating more jobs
The next 157 jobs associated with the biggest infrastructure project in South Australia’s history will start to roll out in the next few months as $85 million worth of early enabling works get underway.
As part of the North-South Corridor upgrade, enabling works on the Torrens to Darlington (T2D) project include relocations for water, electricity, gas and telecommunications services for the southern section of the project and are a required precursor to construction of the Hybrid+ design.
Federal Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, said getting on with these early works now will ensure the project stays on track for main construction of the southern tunnel to start in 2023.
This included $15.2bn and $28.5bn Australian dollars the federal government recently announced in infrastructure spending and tax measures.
â[The Australian infrastructure spending] is a lot. That is one-and-a-half times the normal level of investment in transport,â says the Grattan Instituteâs transport and cities program director Marion Terrill.
âThe budget took us back to transport megaprojects. And thatâs after a short break in the past budget where the biggest single contribution from the commonwealth was $750m. In this budget the commonwealth put in $2bn or more into three whopping great big projects.â
The budget included $2bn for an intermodal terminal in Melbourne, $2.6bn for the Anzac Highway in South Australia and $2bn for the Great Western Highway in NSW.