On call service for all of our clients who require out of hours support.Road lighting associated with signalized intersections and traffic ramps.Port River Expressway – installation of 10 new signalised intersections.Southern Expressway – Installation of 480 incident loops and installed and/or upgraded 9 signalised intersections.Glenelg tramline extension – installation of 7 new signalized intersections as well as rebuilding the 15 existing sites in King William St, North Terrace and Port Road.Torrens 2 Torrens Project – new signalised intersections.Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure – installations and alternations and standby call out service.Anzac Highway underpass – new signalised intersections.Northern Connector – new signalised intersections.Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure – general maintenance contract.ITS, traffic signal UPS and CCTV installations.Detector loop cutting services including safety camera loops, traffic signal loops, managed motorway incident detection loops and parking access loops for barrier gates.Scheduled/preventative and responsive traffic Signal Maintenance, program updates and repair.And trust this, we are contributing to the final design. So, as I said i n my last T2D post and we continue to know what we don’t know, watch this space. Anzac Highway, of course, is a key road for access to the CBD. Disruption will still occur here however in respect of creating access/egress from the tunnel to gain access to Anzac Highway. There will be no excavating for the tunnel adjacent to Black Forest of Everard Park. Something else I can confirm is that the tunneling excavation will occur at the southern end, at Darlington. Where the in ramps and out ramps will be. We don’t know (they don’t know) where we will be able to access the tunnel. From an engineering perspective, they would prefer it to be directly under South Road. We don’t know if the tunnel will be under South Road or adjacent. The gradient needs to cater for heavy trucks to move freely enough not to disturb the progress of cars. We know they plan for the tunnel to be some 20m under grade. We can be reasonably assured, that said, that our section of South Road will be a transitional area from grade (or at least the reduced level of Gallipoli) to the tunnel. It means we cannot know what access/egress issues may occur with us being able to access our homes from South Road. This means we must wait to gain any knowledge as to what, if any, compulsory property acquisitions may be required in Black Forest or Everard Park. It is likely to be around the tram overpass but there are many engineering issues to address before that becomes a reality. They can approximate that it will start somewhere between the Gallipoli underpass and the Emerson overpass. They cannot pinpoint where the tunnel will start and finish. Likewise whether the recently constructed, and more recently repaired, tram overpass can be retained. Whether they can retain the Gallipoli underpass as it is, or not. Whether they can avoid demolishing the Emerson overpass. Work like moving the Telephone Exchange in Glandore. Unsure too as to whether they can avoid certain works they would prefer not to do. I learned also on Saturday, amongst other things, is they are very unsure themselves. Part of the exercise of conducting the recent forums is to get a better picture of what our concerns are. Until they understand our concerns they can’t provide the “final” package. Until they conduct survey work, and geological soil testing, etc. This may take them until the end of 2021. Give them (DIT) a chance to do the detailed investigations they need to do, to have the level of detail necessary to provide the answers. The best advice I can give anyone, including myself, is to have some patience. What I learned is there is much work to be done by DIT before they can provide answers to the many questions we all have. These sessions were rescheduled after the recent Covid-19 lockdown disturbed all activity in South Australia. Last Saturday, I attended one of the four public briefings conducted by the DIT. This means we continue to know what we don’t know. They have raised, however, more questions than providing answers to those we already have. The Department of Infrastructure & Transport (DIT) has provided the public some insight into the T2D.
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