All across Victoria potholes are a common sight, as finding for basic repairs has been funneled away for grand traffic congestion inducing projects like the West Gate Tunnel. But there is one exception – a few roads in Melbourne that were upgraded as part of the ‘Western Roads Upgrade’ project. So why are they different? […]
How long does it take VicRoads to fix a failing retaining wall? Well, in the case of the Taylors Road underpass at St Albans, it only took them a decade. The story begins Once upon a time Taylors Road was a road in the middle of nowhere, beyond the edge of suburban Melbourne. Melway Edition […]
Every fortnight a rubbish truck goes past my house and empties my bin full of green waste. Well I found out a few months ago, when my local council organised a tour of Veolia’s Bulla Organics Facility. Road trip time The Bulla Organics Facility was opened in 2013 at a cost of $15 million by […]
Right now work on the West Gate Tunnel Project is well underway, with 1500 tonnes of precast concrete tunnel lining, bridge and viaduct elements making up the tangle of elevated roads and underground tunnels coming from an unlikely location – 200 kilometres away at Benalla in north-east Victoria. Precast concrete everywhere The most obvious usage […]
This is the story of Lynch’s Bridge over the Maribyrnong River in Melbourne’s west, connecting Smithfield Road in Flemington to Ballarat Road in Footscray. On the downstream side is the original 1936 bridge, with art deco-styled decorative parapets, pillars, and light fittings. And beside it a far more utilitarian concrete bridge completed in 1992. In […]
