Re: East Hills Rail Amplification.

["Lourie Smit" <lsmit@ozemail.com.au>]

Dan <dan@flex.com.au> wrote in message
85k3rd$vc3$1@the-fly.zip.com.au">news:85k3rd$vc3$1@the-fly.zip.com.au...
> > Community Notice
> >
> > East Hills Rail Amplification
> > Stage 2 - Turrella to Kingsgrove
> > Bexley Road Bridge Works
> >
> > Fluor Australia, in conjunction with the Rail Access Corporation, will
be
> > commencing works to lengthen the Bexley Road Bridge at Bardwell Park in
> > January 2000.
> > The lengthening of Bexley Road Bridge will involve night time works
during
> > the hours of 8pm - 6am Sunday to Friday nights.
> > The night piling works will commence on the 13th January through until
the
> > 21st January 2000.  It will be necessary to close one lane of the bridge
> > during night works and traffic control facilities will be in place. All
> > lanes will be open during the day.
> > Fluor Australia appreciates the support of the local community in
> > undertaking this project. If you have any question regarding the project
> > please call our community information line on 1800 999 211. Please
address
> > any correspondence to the
> > Site Environment Officer
> > PO Box 292
> > Beverly Hills, NSW, 2209.
>
> I hope they also lengthen Kingsgrove Road Bridge to 4 lanes (Currently
they
> have 3 lanes altogether - 2 lanes to Belmore side and 1 lane to Hurstville
> side). There is huge bottlenecks in the afternoon peak times when cars are
> going on the Hurstville side.
>
> Cheers.
> ------------------------------
> Danny Mok
> dan@flex.com.au
> http://www.flex.com.au/~dan
>
>

I think the lengthening refers to the fact that it will span more rail
tracks and not necessarily include more traffic lanes. Bexley Road could
certainly do with an extra lane at Bexley North in a northerly direction.

Lourie Smit.