Road closures for bridge work

One of the biggest engineering feats completing a significant milestone at the Caversham Bypass upgrade of State Highway 1 takes place this week, resulting in nightly road closures and detours being put up through the South Dunedin suburb.

The installation of bridge beams to support the new two-lane northbound traffic overbridge across South Rd will take four nights and begins tonight.

The work on the overbridge is a signature piece of heavy engineering for the $21 million upgrading of the Caversham Bypass to four lanes.

Downer engineer and site foreman Mark Woodward said the operation to install the bridge beams would use two massive Titan cranes to lift 19 heavy steel supports into place during the next four nights.

The first three spans, weighing about 30 tonnes each and 18 metres in length, were to be dropped in place by the cranes tonight, he said.

Road closures would be in place from every day until Thursday, between 7pm and 6am, along the State Highway 1 motorway from the Andersons Bay Rd intersection lights through to Barnes Dr.

South Rd would also be closed each night between Burns St, by Carisbrook, and The Glen, on the north side of SH1.

Detours would be in place to direct all southbound traffic, apart from residential owners, away from South Rd at the intersection with Princes St, opposite the Oval, he said.

Northbound traffic would be directed from SH1 at Barnes Dr into Caversham and towards Hillside Rd.

 

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