To welcome the Clyde Road Upgrade team onto Bunurong land, Major Road Projects Victoria and Seymour Whyte crews were invited by Bunurong Land Council Elders to join in a traditional smoking ceremony.
Bunurong Elder Mark Brown welcomed crews to the land and to join in the ceremony as part of the start of major works on the project, which will add new lanes between Enterprise Avenue and Bemersyde Drive and create more capacity at the Kangan Drive and Sir Gustav Nossal Boulevard intersection.
Major Road Projects Victoria Program Director Marc Peterson said the team was grateful for the public’s co-operation with the increasing level of works.
“We’re ramping up works on the Clyde Road Upgrade as we work to overhaul this major thoroughfare for Berwick and surrounding suburbs,” he said.
Between October and December, crews will be relocating water and power services, removing existing kerbs and centre medians, and removing existing light poles and traffic lights and construction of bridge access points in preparation for widening works next year.
Crews will also be constructing a site access point from the Princes Freeway outbound exit ramp into a parcel of land located behind Federation University.
To complete these works safely, there will be a series of weekend inbound and outbound ramp closures, an extended two-week closure of the Princes Freeway outbound exit ramp onto Clyde Road from Friday 8 November to Monday 25 November and weekend closures of Sir Gustav Nossal Boulevard.
To minimise impact to people accessing local education and hospital facilities, most major disruptions will occur on weekends or at night to help avoid delays.
There will also be closures of Sir Gustav Nossal Boulevard on weekends until Monday 25 November to relocate underground water services.
During these closures, access to Sir Gustav Nossal Boulevard will be maintained via Enterprise Avenue and Venture Drive, with drivers advised to allow an additional five minutes of travel time.
As part of these works, the Clyde Road Upgrade team will also lay temporary asphalt in the removed centre median, which will create more space and allow two lanes to remain open as much as possible while the team builds the new lanes behind barriers.
The team will also position safety barriers and replace the existing light poles and traffic signals with temporary ones.
For more information on the project, visit bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/roads/clyde-road-upgrade
