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Council unveils location-list for roadworks


Orange City Council has unveiled the list of locations for road works in the coming road-building season.

Weather-permitting, road work worth $15.2 million has been planned.

Orange Mayor Cr John Davis OAM said he’s looking forward to the new round of work beginning during warm months.

“It’s been a record wet Winter and that weather has left its mark on our roads,” Cr John Davis said.

“As recently last weekend we’ve had three crews out in all kinds of weather making the roads as safe as we can, but this road-building program is aimed at making a major contribution to the quality of local roads.”

Orange City Council Infrastructure Policy Committee Chair Cr Glenn Taylor said the roads program is a sign of Orange’s growth.

“It’s important to remember that streets like Clergate Road were built as narrow rural roads.

"They’re now a path to a major industrial area and it’s showing the impact of a lot more traffic than it was originally designed for,” Cr Glenn Taylor said.

“Clergate Rd will be re-built.”

The list of work includes $2.3 million on the second year of the council’s ‘Accelerated Roads’ program. The list of work includes:
  • Stabilising and hot-mix surfacing in William St from Byng St to Dalton St
  • Stabilising and hot-mix surfacing in Lords Place from Gardiner Rd to the southern end of Lords Place
  • Stabilising and hot-mix surfacing in Anson Street from Moulder Street towards Warrendine Street
  • Stabilising and hot-mix surfacing in Kite Street from Hill Street to Clinton Street (including removing a dip in the road)
  • Completing the final layer of hot mix surfacing on the bypass between Escort Way and Molong Road
  • Re-surfacing the section of bypass from the Mitchell Highway to Icely Road
  • Selected heavy patching with hot mix asphalt
The program of work includes a number of projects where funding is shared 50/50 between the council and other tiers of government :

  • Re-building Clergate Road from the northern bypass to Strathgrove Way ($2.65 million)
  • Building a new rail overpass bridge in Forest Road ($2.5 million)
  • Re-building Forest Road from the southern feeder road intersection to the hospital ($3.1 million - This project is subject to a successful ‘Resources for Regions’ grant.)

Burrendong Way will be re-built with a sprayed bitumen seal from the bypass to Wiradjuri Place ($600,000)

The list of 12 local streets which will be re-habilitated and re-surfaced with a bitumen gravel seal at a cost of $574,000 includes :

  • Summer St East from Summer Lane to the bridge
  • McNeilly Ave from Elsham Ave to Edward St
  • Caroline St from Edward St to Rose St
  • Endeavour Ave from James Cook Cr (east) Hill St
  • Endsleigh Ave from Warrendine St to Franklin Rd
  • Hargraves Cr from Heatherbrae Pl to Friendship Place
  • March St from Clinton St to Sampson St
  • Maxwell Ave from Tobruk St (south) to Brunswick St
  • Maxwell Ave from Moad St to Tobruk(north)
  • Moad Place from Maxwell Ave to Glenroi Ave
  • Paling St from Icely Rd to Austin St
  • Churchill Ave to from Tobruk Cr to Fitzroy St
Funding from the National Blackspot program worth $2.29 million will see a number of road projects. Three local roads will be re-surfaced with a bitumen/gravel seal including:

  • Pinnacle Rd from Shiralee Rd 1.8km southward
  • Forest Rd from Cadia Rd 1.8km southward
  • Ophir Rd from the bypass to the Resource Recovery Centre
Two roundabouts will be built at the intersections of :
  • Lords Place & March St
  • Moulder and Woodward Streets
More pedestrian access ’blisters’ will be built at the intersections of :
  • March & Sale Streets
  • Moulder & Sale Streets
  • Prince & Clinton Streets
  • Sale and Warrendine Streets
  • Dalton & Spring St
  • Coronation Drive and Frost Street
Further bitumen/gravel and hotmix asphalt re-sealing work worth $636,000 will be done on urban roads and $155,000 on rural roads.
This includes :
  • Byng St from Clinton to Sampson (hotmix Asphalt)
  • Bletchington St from Spring To McLachlan
  • Laurel Av from Racecourse To Cedar
  • Banjo Paterson Way from Ophir To Rossi
  • Hill St from Prunus To Benelong
  • Lone Pine Av from Leumeah To Kurim
  • March St from Winter To Wolsley
  • Hill St from Roselawn To Yellowbox
  • Anson St from Ophir To Casey
  • Edward St from Kite To Warrendine
  • Forest Rd from Gosling To Hiney
  • Gardiner Rd from Hill street west for 260m
  • Lone Pine Av from Adina To South Terrace
  • March St from Wolsley To Park
  • Matthews Av from Lords To Anson
  • Churchill Ave from Fitzroy To McLachlan
  • Forest Road from Aerodrome to Davis
  • Forest Road between Failford and Bennett
  • Forest Road from Selwood south for 450m

ROADS: Orange Mayor John Davis with Technical Services Director Chris Devitt at Leeds Parade.

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