Business performance
Project updates Victoria
Queensland
West Gate Tunnel Project
Logan West Upgrade Project cost TBC Expected opening TBC
Project cost ~$10B Expected opening 2025
Just as CityLink did 25 years ago, the West Gate Tunnel will provide more choice for how people travel to and from Melbourne’s west. Work on building the new road’s city connections is well advanced. The project’s purpose-built launching gantry (a 1,200-tonne girder crane) has finished putting the final concrete segments into place for the road deck of the new elevated 2.7-kilometre motorway over Footscray Road. Work to widen the West Gate Freeway has progressed well, with new lanes now open in some sections of the freeway already helping to ease congestion on this busy road. Noise wall installation works are now 98% complete. Construction of the new traffic control centre at Whitehall Street in Yarraville is 97% complete. Once finished, this will be a state- of-the-art facility where our specialist traffic control room operators will manage traffic on both CityLink and the West Gate Tunnel’s new roads and tunnels. The project is also delivering more than 14 kilometres of new and upgraded walking and cycling paths to make it easier and safer for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians to get around Melbourne. Construction of the striking new walking and cycling bridge structure over Footscray Road is 90% complete, and installation of the 2.5-kilometre cycling veloway has commenced. The Project has received a leading design rating from the Infrastructure Sustainability Council.
We are partnering with the Queensland State Government to develop plans to widen almost 10kms of the western section of the Logan Motorway. The Logan West Upgrade project aims to provide congestion relief and reduce travel times while improving road safety. When complete, the project is forecast to reduce travel times by up to 20 minutes during peak periods in 2031, and remove around 6,100 vehicles from local streets. The current scope of work includes: • Adding an additional lane in each direction along the Logan Motorway between Centenary Motorway and the Mt Lindesay Highway, and an additional lane westbound between Boundary Road and Formation Street • Upgrading the Formation Street interchange to cater for growing communities and industrial hubs • Installing new smart motorway technologies • Increasing vehicle height capacity across the Logan Motorway to allow for over-dimensional vehicles. Community consultation will commence in the second half of 2024. Once planning is complete, the Queensland Government will consider the proposal and Transurban will work with Government to agree on a suitable funding model.
See how these projects fit into our portfolio (pages 14–15)
West Gate Tunnel Project, Melbourne
Logan Motorway, Greater Brisbane
20
Made with FlippingBook Digital Publishing Software