January 19 - 25, 2020: Issue 434

 

Mona Vale Road East Upgrade: January 2020 Update and photographic record of works

Taken from NSW RMS Documents: 

  1.  January 2020 work notification; Out of hours work 6 January to 17 January 2020.
  2.  January 2020 work notification;  Out of hours work 13 January to 17 January 2020 additional update.
  3.  Project updates;  January 2019 project update, Mona Vale Road East upgrade.

All Notifications available at: www.rms.nsw.gov.au/projects/mona-vale-road/mvreast/index.html

Mona Vale Road East - out of hours work

We will restart out of hours work along Mona Vale Road from January 2020. We will work from 8pm to 5am on the following dates, weather permitting:

  •  Tuesday 7, Wednesday 8 and Friday 10 January
  •  Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15 and Friday 17 January.

If work is delayed due to wet weather, we will try and work a different night within the same week. We will notify residents living closest to the work if the dates change from the above.

Our work will include:

  •  moving equipment between work areas
  •  road maintenance
  •  shifting of concrete barriers and
  •  line marking.

During our out of hours work, we will close one lane of Mona Vale Road and reduce the speed limit to 40km/h to ensure the safety of motorists and workers.

A stop/slow arrangement will be in place with traffic controllers and signage directing traffic.

We will use rollers, grinders, cranes, lighting, line marking trucks and light vehicles.

Map showing location of out of hours work in Mona Vale East:


Mona Vale Road East - out of hours work: January 20 to 31

Out of hours work will continue along Mona Vale Road over the next two weeks. We will work between 8pm and 5am on the following dates, weather permitting:

  • Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22 and Friday 24 January
  • Tuesday 28, Wednesday 29 and Friday 31 January.

If work is delayed due to wet weather, we will try and work a different night within the same week. We will notify residents living closest to the work if the dates change from the above.

Our work in the main project will include:

  • rock breaking and placing rock along the cuttings closest to the road
  • road maintenance
  • shifting of concrete barriers.

We will use excavators with buckets and hammers, bobcats, rollers, grinders, cranes, lighting, line marking trucks and light vehicles.

We will also work at the Western Early Works area, between Kimbriki Road and Tumburra Street on Wednesday 20 January between 8pm and 5am. 

Enquiries and registering for work updates  

Please contact the community team for enquiries, feedback or any concerns you may have about the work.

Call: 1800 413 640 (24 hour number).

Email: monavaleroad@georgiou.com.au

For more information: rms.work/mvreast

If you need help understanding this information, please contact the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450 and ask them to call us on 1800 413 640.

Map showing location of additional out of hours work in Mona Vale East:


Vegetation removal

Roads and Maritime will remove trees, shrubs and other vegetation from both sides of Mona Vale Road, to prepare for the construction work.

This work will take place initially between Daydream Street, Mona Vale, and Lane Cove Road, Ingleside, and between Wirreanda Road and Mona Vale Road, Ingleside (see map below.).

The work is expected to take up to 16 weeks to complete, with some work carried out at night for the safety of workers and motorists.

Affected residents will be notified in advance of all work, and notifications are available on our website and via email distribution.

During clearing, an independent ecologist is on site to ensure no animals are harmed and any found are relocated to a safe habitat.

The project’s Construction Flora and Fauna Management Plan will be in place to ensure appropriate measures are in place to protect the environment during construction, including establishing exclusion zones and regular monitoring.


Reducing our carbon footprint

To build the Mona Vale Road East upgrade, we need to excavate large volumes of soil and rock. We have planned a way to reuse some of this excess material to prepare for the Mona Vale Road West upgrade.

We will take some excess material to the Mona Vale Road West section where it will be used to build an embankment in readiness for the future widening work on the West project.

Work will include relocating power poles, drainage and removing vegetation.

The two projects have been designed to ensure a minimum amount of material is removed from the projects combined. This will reduce the number of truck movements along the corridor, overall cost for both projects, and reduce our carbon footprint.

The work to build this embankment will form part of the early work for the Mona Vale Road West upgrade, and will start from the first quarter 2019.

The work will cover around 850 square metres on the northern side of Mona Vale Road, between Kimbriki Road and Tumburra Street, Ingleside.

Mona Vale Road West update

We are continuing to prepare the detailed design for Mona Vale Road West, between McCarrs Creek Road, Terrey Hills, and Powder Works Road, Ingleside.

Construction is expected to commence in 2021, subject to funding.

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Photos for the record taken in late December 2019 to show works until December-January cessation of works during Christmas-New Years break - sequence runs from Kimbriki end of works to Pittwater RSL junction of Foley Street, Mona Vale with Mona Vale Road. Pittwater Online/A J Guesdon photos.

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