📋 Tender Overview
The majority of upcoming essential safety improvement and maintenance work to be carried out on Tooleybuc Bridge will take place at night, in line with community feedback provided to Transport for NSW.
Transport for NSW Regional Director South, Cassandra Ffrench, said the second stage of work is needed to strengthen the bridge to ensure it remains safe and continues to be an important link for communities and freight across the Murray River.
“Just like we did with stage one, we consulted with the community on their preferred option ahead of this important work to reduce the impacts to residents, businesses and visitors,” Ms Ffrench said.
“More than 50 community members provided feedback through either our online survey, email, our face-to-face community session and follow-up door knock with 98 per cent of respondents favouring night work.
“We listened and the feedback was clear, the community wants to ensure that the school buses are not impacted, they want to keep the bridge open during the day and for as long as possible into the evening, and to keep the bridge open at weekends.
“We have achieved all of this by developing a work program that best meets the needs of the community.
“Work will include the removal of the truss support structure, known as ‘Baileys’, and the bridge being strengthened with large steel beams being installed in place of the ‘Baileys’.”
Five weeks of day work will start the project and will be carried out between 7am and 4pm from Monday 12 August to Friday 13 September.
Another week of day work to disable the site will be carried out from Monday 11 November to Friday 15 November.
Traffic control and reduced speed limits of 40 km/h will be in place during this day work. There will be intermittent closures of the bridge, with some delays of up to 20 minutes while heavy machinery is in operation.
The day work will enable crews to carry out essential work to set-up the site. Transport has taken steps to minimise impacts to motorists during this time such as prioritising access for morning and afternoon school buses.
Night closures will be in place from 8pm to 4am, Sunday night to Friday mornings from Sunday 15 September to Friday 8 November, weather permitting.
Transport thanks the community for sharing their thoughts, concerns and providing us with valuable feedback to assist in developing a work program.
We will continue to keep the community informed on the work and any impacts to traffic and the community.
