Construction Staging & Phasing

The Alliance recognises the impact that our works will have, not only on the local businesses and residents within the project site, but also on the high volume of daily road users.

As such, we have invested significant effort to understand the needs of adjacent businesses and residents and consequently devised a progressive construction methodology that will maintain two lanes of traffic in each direction between 5am to 7pm on weekdays and 8am to 7pm on weekends.

As part of this construction sequence the site has been divided into five primary work areas:

• Kooyong Road to Belmont Avenue
• Belmont Avenue to Belgravia Street
• Belgravia Street to Hardey Road
• Hardey Road to Epsom Avenue
• Epsom Avenue to Tonkin Highway

Work in each of these areas will first be undertaken on the northern, or river side, of the highway and will be completed in four phases.

Phase 1 –
Crews will commence work within the road reserve on the river side of the highway. These works will ultimately create the new eastbound carriageway of Great Eastern Highway. Traffic remains on existing east/westbound lanes.

Phase 2 –
Eastbound traffic will be shifted onto the new eastbound carriageway, while works are undertaken to facilitate access for Phase 3. Westbound traffic will remain on the existing carriageway.

Phase 3 –
All traffic will be shifted onto the new eastbound carriageway into contra-flow to facilitate upgrade works to the westbound carriageway. In this stage, some side streets may have restricted access.

Phase 4 –
The area will be opened to traffic in the ultimate arrangement, works will be undertaken in the median and final asphalt layers will be laid.

Crews will work west to east through the project site, commencing works in the area between Kooyong Road and Belmont Avenue.

The five signalised intersections between Kooyong Road and Tonkin Highway will also be staged in consideration of the impact on road users. This work will be largely need to be undertaken at night due to the requirement to take the intersection out of use during some stages of re-construction.