WORK on the Mordialloc Freeway has now been underway for more than a year.
This month, crews have been working on the bridge over Old Dandenong Road in Dingley Village. The first twelve bridge beams have been put in place.
A total of 252 bridge beams will be required for the project. Six freeway bridges will be built on Old Dandenong Road, Centre Dandenong Road, Lower Dandenong Road, Governor Road, Bowen Parkway, and Springvale Road.
A statement on the Major Roads Project Victoria website read that “over the past year we’ve worked more than 650,000 construction hours, laid almost 3 million tonnes of earth and relocated over 74 kms of utilities along the freeway.”
“We’ve also been taking opportunities to make sustainable choices while we work. To date we’ve reused more than 13 million litres of water, laid more than 5,800 tonnes of recycled asphalt and installed over 2 kms worth of recycled-material pipes to build our drainage.
“As we work to complete the freeway next year, you’ll also see other key parts of the project take shape such as the noise walls, the new pedestrian and cycling path along the full length of the freeway, and the landscaping works that will see over a million new plants, shrubs and trees planted.”
The freeway is expected to be completed by the end of 2021. The project was projected to cost $375 million, before another $148.2 million was put into it during the mid-year budget update at the end of 2019 (“Bypass budget blowout blasted”, The News, 25/12/20).
To read more visit roadprojects.vic.gov.au/projects/mordialloc-freeway
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 25 November 2020