Major Road Projects Victoria’ s (MRPV) mammoth summer blitz to upgrade three of Craigieburn’s busiest intersections is powering ahead, with new lanes built and traffic lights being installed.
Construction crews have removed hundreds of cubic metres of soil from around the Craigieburn Road, Hardy Avenue, and Waterview Boulevard intersections, creating space to work on new lanes and build shared use paths.
Bridgewater Road – which has been closed for the past two weeks between Craigieburn and Clovelly Drive – has reopened in time for the start of the school year. The intersection is almost complete with just the final layer of asphalt to come, and the signals and lighting to be switched over.
At the Hume Highway end of Craigieburn Road, crews have also made progress shaping up the new Walters Street, Hardy Avenue and Hume Highway intersections, completing earthworks, kerbing and drainage, with the first of the fresh asphalt laid yesterday.
MRPV program director Dipal Sorathia said the upgrades will make it easier for motorists to access major shopping precincts, businesses, schools, and key north-south arterial roads.
“Traffic lights and additional turning lanes will give locals a safer and quicker journey through these upgraded intersections,” she said.
“Works are progressing well and we’re looking forward to completing the first of these important safety and capacity upgrades by the end of February.”
Over coming weeks, crews will focus on the section of Bridgewater Road between Craigieburn Road and Clovelly Drive to build kerbside drainage and median strips.
Traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction during this time.
The rest of the summer’s work will now focus on Aitken Boulevard and around Craigieburn Plaza, where a 24-7 closure between the Hume Highway and Hanson Road intersections will remain in place until Tuesday February, 28.
Drivers will only be able to get onto the Hume Highway by using Grand Boulevard to the north and Somerton Road to the south, and are being warned of up to 25-minute delays.
At the conclusion of the summer blitz three out of seven intersections on Craigieburn Road between Mickleham Road and Hume Highway will be upgraded.
The Craigieburn Road Upgrade is scheduled to be fully completed in 2025.
