On Friday they demolished the old bridge, sorry for the delay in posting this. Photos are below:
Taken on Friday, this photo is looking in the Yeppoon direction. The new bridge is just to the left.
A closeup of the broken-up concrete and steel.
Looking in the other direction.
This was taken a bit more recently, and now they have cleared away all the concrete and steel rubbish.
A few days ago the roadworkers opened up the new bridge which I wrote about. The day I wrote about it they were painting the lines onto the road, then the day after that they opened it. Now they have started work on building the next bridge, which I am fairly certain about now.
The view above is looking down onto the bridge.
Getting up a bit closer, you can quite clearly see the road space they have provided for the next new bridge.
Yesterday they were digging out this section next to the old bridge. The new bridge is to the left of the old bridge.
A water truck taking off when the light goes green.
[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, road, bridge, lines, paint[/tags]
I haven’t done a roadworks update for a while because there hasn’t really been much to write about. A couple of days ago I rode down to the big bridge to take a photo of the traffic lights that they’ve installed, but I didn’t get around to writing about. I’m glad that I didn’t, because I would have had to do another write up for the tarring.
Well anyway, I’ve already just told you the two main things that they’ve been doing: tarring the section of road near the big new bridge down the road and installing two traffic lights. I think that they installed them because the bridge isn’t quite wide enough for two cars to pass. The traffic lights will alternate the traffic so only one direction can cross the bridge at any time.
There is a bit of division in the family between those who think that they are going to be building another bridge and those who think that the current bridge is not going to get any company at all. There is some evidence in favour of the 2 bridge theory, in the form of a workmen who says they are going to build another bridge. However I’ll guess we’ll soon see for ourselves. Onto the photos.
This is the first traffic light just up from the bridge. I didn’t get a decent photo of this traffic light with the tarred road so I’m using these pics taken just before the road was tarred.
Looking down towards the bridge from the Yeppoon direction. Again, this photo was taken just before the road was tarred.
This is the second traffic light on the Yeppoon side.
This shows the bridge after it had been tarred. I expect it will soon be open to traffic.
I’ve been a bit slack reporting the latest roadworks, but they have done a fair bit of work from when they started after the long weekend to Saturday night, when I’m writing this. For the first few days of this week they were tearing up a section of the road near our place to put some pipes in, and also putting down crusherdust or gravel for the new road down at the big bridge.
For the last few days of the week they then concentrated on the section near our place, which involved filling in part of the creek near the Bungundarra intersection and also dumping over 30 truckloads of rocks and dirt to bring the new road up to the level of the smaller bridge near out place. Photos are below.
The new section of road just up from the big bridge. If you look at previous roadworks posts, you’ll be able to see what this section of road used to look like. On the right you can see a turnoff for cars going to Mt Rae Road.
Looking down onto the big bridge. Now all they have to do is put gravel down on the other side and they are almost finished.
Located just to the right of the smaller bridge near our place, you can see how they’ve filled in a section of the creek. This is to make sure the water goes the alternate route, which is straight under the bridge and road and back into the creek.
The water coming out from the other side of the road. The white posts you see are marking the Telstra fibre optic cable, which runs under the road too. Beats me why we can’t get broadband with a cable (and fibre-optic at that) running right near us.
Finally, this photo taken yesterday (Friday) shows how they’ve filled in up to the level of the bridge. I expect to see this section laid with crusherdust and then tar in the next few weeks.
Since the last time I gave an update on the rain that has fallen, we’ve basically had another 5 or 6 days of rain, with hardly a break in between. When a break in the rain did occur it only lasted for a couple of hours at most. Although the rain has been mostly light, there has been enough to give the creeks a big boost in their size from 6 days ago.
In other places around Queensland some roads have been cut, including the highway between Rockhampton and Emerald. You’ve most likely seen that on the news.
Thankfully though, all this Saturday has been rain-free (although with a very overcast sky), and the weather is showing signs of clearing up.
These drains just near our place have been inundated with water, and because there is only a end on the other side, all the water just backs out again and flows under the road.
Meanwhile the creek down at the bridges (old and new) is fairly raging along, and I couldn’t wade across at one place because the water was higher than my knees. The photo above shows the creek exiting after going through both bridges.
The place at the bridges where I tried to cross. The channel is in between the main clump of grass and the top side.
While down at the bridge on the day I took the photos (Friday) I happened to see the Livingstone Shire Mayor, Bill Ludwig, taking photos with some people.
This shows a small creek (just near the two bridges) flowing on it’s way into Plain Creek, the biggest one around for a few kilometres.
[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, rain, bridge, creek, water[/tags]
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