Building Better Roads

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As well as increasing its spending on local roads and improving road quality, Orange City Council wants to engage with local residents to better explain how roads are maintained.
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As well as increasing its spending on local roads and improving road quality, Orange City Council wants to engage with local residents to better explain how roads are maintained.
One this site you can find out more and have your say about :








Consultation has concluded
  • Clergate Road next for upgrade

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    Clergate Road is the next street in Orange in line for a major upgrade. This week’s Orange City Council meeting awarded the $2.17 million tender to Hamcon Civil Pty Ltd, the same company that built the first section of the southern feeder road.

    Stage 1 of the project will see the re-building of a 750 metre section of Clergate Rd from Quartz Street towards the bypass, with a hot-mix asphalt seal.


    Orange City Council’s Infrastructure Committee chair, Cr Glenn Taylor has welcomed the latest sign of progress towards better local roads.

    “Clergate Road was originally a low-traffic rural road, but now it’s used by traffic coming to and from a key industrial area in North Orange,” Cr Glenn Taylor said. “We’ll be widening the road and installing street lighting. It’s now an urban street so there will be kerb & guttering ”

    “We’re also improving the intersection with Farrell Road and improving the sight-distance for turning drivers.”

    “With the development of business and residential areas in north Orange, Farrell Road is taking a greater role in moving larger volumes of traffic through that area. Improving the Clergate Road-Farrell Road intersection will be important for the residents of that area.”

    It’s expected work will begin in January.

    HOT MIX: Clergate road will be rebuilt with hot mix, similar to what was done here in Byng Street.

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  • Road upgrades underway

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    Byng Street is now surfaced in hot mix asphalt for six blocks from the Peisley Street roundabout through to Sampson Street, March Street has been upgraded and Forest Road is undergoing heavy patching.

    Orange City Council’s Infrastructure Committee chair Cr Glenn Taylor said it was great to see the work on Byng Street completed.

    “Work to rehabilitate that section of road began during the last road building season and now the weather has warmed up and the rain has eased off, the council has been able to finish it,” Cr Taylor.

    “One of Orange’s busiest streets now has hot mix asphalt for six blocks.

    “It’s important ratepayers get value out of the budget so the council uses the more expensive materials like hot-mix on roads that are used by the most people.

    “It’d be great if we could afford to hot mix every road but tough decisions have to be made and that’s why we use hot mix on high traffic areas.”

    March Street, from Hill Street to Sampson Street, has been upgraded and was sealed with two coats of a gravel/bitumen seal.

    However, after the upgrade at March Street was completed, a water pipe underneath the road leaked and caused damage. Crews are waiting for the water to dry up before making a decision on whether they will re-do the section completely or whether they will need to re-seal only. .

    Sections in Endeavour Avenue, Hill Street and Gardiner Road were completed last month with crews working on a Saturday to finish one of the busier intersections in that area.

    “I’m happy to see that work is progressing quickly and because the weather has been clearer, the maintenance crews have also been able to catch up with the potholes.

    “We’re only been going for about a month but we’ve already done five of the projects on the list for work,” Cr Taylor said.


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  • New road set to be completed early 2017

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    Orange City Council’s road building season is well underway with three projects already completed and the $700,000 North Orange link road expected to be finished by early in the new year.

    Orange City Council’s Infrastructure Committee chair Glenn Taylor said North Orange residents should notice the difference to traffic congestion by the end of January, weather permitting.


    “The link road from Telopea Way to the western end of Diamond Drive will take the pressure off existing intersections particularly the corner of Farrell Road and Telopea Way,” Cr Taylor said.

    “The good news is that this project is funded completely from developer contributions and is on top of the council’s record $15 million roads budget.

    “When you buy a block of land in a nearby subdivision, a portion of the price of the block makes a contribution to the cost of neighbourhood infrastructure, so new home owners have contributed to the construction of that road.”

    Meanwhile, the Council’s road crews have been taking advantage of the drier weather and getting on top of the smaller road repair jobs around the city.

    Bletchington Street, between Spring and McLachlan is currently being rehabilitated, the intersection and approaches at Winter Street and Ophir Road have been completed, along with Summer Street east, Austin Street and Paling Street.

    Byng Street, one of Orange's busiest streets is getting a hot mix seal over the next two days, while rehabilitation work is being done in Endeavour Avenue, from James Cook Avenue to Hill Street, Hill Street at the Endeavour Avenue intersection and a section of Gardiner Road west from Hill Street.

    Work on Gardiner Road and Hill Street involves patching sections of the road in preparation for a larger resealing program scheduled for December.

    Patching will also occur in Hill Street from Poplars Drive to Yellow Bow Way and Anson Street from Ophir Street to Casey Street.

    From Monday crews will begin rehabilitation work in March Street from Sampson to Clinton Street.

    “The council’s own road crews can get a head start and complete a range of road rehabilitation works with our specialized equipment, but in order to deliver such an ambitious program of works, some larger, more expensive upgrading works have to go out to tender and then the winning tender must be decided by the council at a council meeting,” Cr Taylor said.

    Some of the larger jobs have gone to tender and are expected to come before the council soon, with tenders for Clergate Road upgrading closing this week and the tender for Burrendong Way upgrading advertised yesterday (Wednesday, November 9).

    “We’re going full steam ahead ,” Cr Taylor said.

    LINK ROAD: Matt Davis of KLMR working on the link road from Telopea Way to Diamond Drive.

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  • Road-building season begins in Orange

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    Residents of Paling Street and Austin Street in Orange are the first to notice the start of Orange City Council’s long-awaited road-building season.

    Orange City Council’s Infrastructure Committee Chair Cr Glenn Taylor is delighted a start has been made on the council’s record $15 million road spending budget this year.


    “There was an uproar from local residents as record rain in June, July and September left their mark on the city’s streets, and I’m pleased the council could respond with a record roads spend,” Cr Glenn Taylor said.

    “The Council’s engineering team has been getting on with the work of preparing the larger projects to go out to tender. With the steady sunshine of recent weeks, it’s now been possible for the council’s own road crews to start the first of the street rehabilitations.”

    “The residents of Paling Street have put up with a deteriorating road surface for long enough. This week the top 160 mm of the seal and underlying pavement has been pulverised so that that hardening agents can be added. Once it’s rolled in again, a bitumen-gravel seal will be added by a contractor. Weather permitting that seal is due to be completed before the weekend. “

    Orange City Council has also released the locations of the next projects to begin, weather permitting, during the coming fortnight.


    These include:
     Two blocks in Summer Street East from the bridge to Summer Place starting on Monday October 24 to Tuesday November 1.
     Both approaches to the intersection of Ophir Road and Winter Street, during the week from 2 November to 5 November.

    Cr Taylor said the first tender for the larger road projects had gone out last week.
    “The tender for the upgrade of Clergate Road went out on Tuesday and the next stage of work in Burrendong Way is the next cab off the rank.”




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  • Why doesn't the council spend more money on local roads?

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    As well as improving the quality of local roads, Orange City Council is working to build community understanding of how its roads network is managed.

    In this video (Clip 7 in a series of 7), Infrastructure Committee chair, Cr GlennTaylor, talks about balancing budget priorities


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  • Why doesn't the council spend more on roads?

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    As well as improving the quality of local roads, Orange City Council is working to build community understanding of how its roads network is managed.

    In this video (Clip 6 in a series of 7), Orange Mayor John Davis talks about how the need for better roads has to be balanced against the cost of providing other services that the community expects.




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  • Why doesn't the council build better roads?

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    As well as improving the quality of local roads, Orange City Council is working to improve community understanding how roads are being managed.

    In this video (Clip 4 in a series of 7), Works Manager Wayne Gailey explains how the council, decides which kind of road to build in each location.




    Why weren’t the roads done properly in the first place so potholes wouldn’t happen?

    The roads in Orange City have been constructed over the last 100 years to varying standards, depending on use, available budget and the technology and resources available at the time.

    Over time the uses of surrounding land can change rapidly and some roads experience far higher traffic numbers and far heavier vehicles than expected.

    All roads begin to deteriorate from the day they are constructed, so it is natural and expected that potholes will occur during their lives.

    In that sense, pot holes are inevitable.

    The emergence of a pothole is not necessarily a sign of a badly-made road.

    A pothole happens when a small crack develops in the road surface, and after rain, water gets into the gravel foundations, weakening the underlying road base.

    Passing traffic forces water further into the foundations and damages the surrounding road surface.

    The likelihood that a pothole will happen, depends largely on the kind of road that’s built.

    A road made of steel-reinforced concrete is very expensive to build but is much less likely to allow potholes to develop.

    A road topped with 200 mm of hot mix asphalt, such as the re-surfaced Orange bypass road, is less likely to develop cracks and potholes, than a road surfaces with spray bitumen and gravel.

    Orange City Council makes decisions on road construction and maintenance with consideration of the volume and type of traffic using a particular road.


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  • What's the best way to fix pot holes?

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    As well as improving local streets and roads, Orange City Council is aiming to boost the community's understanding of how local roads are managed.

    In this clip (Clip 3 in a series of 7) members of Orange City Council's road repair crew talk about the techniques used to repair pot holes.




    Orange City Council repairs the potholes then two days later they’re back again. Why does this happen?

    Pothole repairs are a temporary solution that happens before more major patching or road replacement can occur.

    These repairs are about improving the safety of the road, before major work can be scheduled.

    Potholes happens when the road surface is damaged and water gets in under the surrounding surface. The expansion of this water (during freezing and thawing) and/or the simple effect of traffic weight on the trapped liquid, causes the pavement to ‘blow out” and the holes to increase in size.

    This can often over a short period of time. Depending on the amount of rain and passing traffic, a pothole can develop from a small crack to a large pothole in a matter of hours or days.

    In a location where one pothole had happened, it is possible that other potholes will also occur nearby, shortly after patching has been undertaken because the conditions in the road surface that allow the water below the surface of the road are similar.

    Water may even find its way between the newly patched hole and the surrounding pavement before it has sealed off properly, resulting in the premature failure of the repair.


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  • How does Orange City Council fix pot holes ?

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    As well as improving the quality of local roads, Orange City Council is working to improve the community's understanding of how local roads are managed and how repairs happen.

    Even when it's raining, Orange City Council's road repair crews will be out in the weather working to repair pot holes.

    Why do they do it, and does it work?

    In this video (Clip 2 in a series of 7) members of Orange City Council's road-repair crew tells the story i of why pot holes are repaired in the rain.



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  • Are pot holes inevitable?

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    As well as improving the quality of local roads, Orange City Council is working to improve the community's understanding of how local roads are managed and how repairs happen.

    There's a common community perception that pot holes shouldn't ever happen, and that when they do it's a sign of badly-built road.

    Both these views are wide of the mark, according to the crews who work on local roads every day.

    This series of videos tell the story from the point of view of the crews who repair pot holes in the streets of Orange. This video (Clip 1 in a series of 7) reveals that pot holes are inevitable.




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