Bolivia Hill upgrade; Country bridge solutions; A new Clarence River crossing - David Andrews and Adam Cameron
Wednesday 22nd June, 2016.
David Andrews
Project manager, Roads and Maritime Services
Bolivia Hill Upgrade
The Bolivia Hill upgrade involves the realignment of a 2.1km section of the New England Highway at Bolivia Hill between Glen Innes and Tenterfield. Together with terrain constraints, the existence of the spotted-tailed quoll, and the Bolivia wattle has required innovative design to avoid and minimise the impacts on these species. It is an example where engineering design, new techniques and environmental understanding has combined to provide a sympathetic solution that is also cost effective.
Country bridge solutions
Local councils, as road authorities, face the growing challenge of maintaining and eventually replacing ageing bridges on Regional and Local roads. The NSW Government is developing Country Bridge Solutions (CBS) to help councils meet this challenge. It is a modular bridge system developed by Roads and Maritime Services (Roads and Maritime) in collaboration with the IPWEA and NSW councils. CBS will provide regional and rural councils with simple and easy to build bridge solutions, deliver cost savings, and promote regional economic growth by using existing council resources to replace and build bridges.
Adam Cameron
Senior project development manager, Roads and Maritime Services
A new Clarence River crossing
Planning for an additional crossing of the Clarence River at Grafton was initially funded by the NSW Government, starting from 2002. A community update issued in December 2010 identified 13 preliminary route options and invited community comment via a postal survey. Subsequent phone and business surveys were also carried out. Twenty-five preliminary route options in five corridors were identified for engineering and environmental investigation.
In January 2012, six route options were announced for further investigation. The short-listed options and short-listing process are documented in the Preliminary Route Options Report – Final (RMS, January 2012). The visualisation which will be shown today was a tool that the project team used to describe the project to the community as part of the EIS display in 2014.
