Worcester St major pipe replacement Open Day
Worcester St major pipe replacement Open Day Saturday Linwood North Primary
http://strongerchristchurch.govt.nz/article/saturday-info-session-linwoods-worcester-and-woodham-residents
SCIRT’s McConnell Dowell team is inviting residents and people living near or on Woodham Road and Worcester St, east of Linwood Ave, to an information session this Saturday.
Location: The library at Linwood North
Primary School, Woodham Road.
Time: 11 am to 1 pm,
Saturday, 23 May, 2015
What is happening: McConnell
Dowell’s engineers, health and safety, traffic and
communications team members will be present to answer
questions and go over key areas of concern like parking
issues and access for residents. There will be activities
for children.
This big pipe (a trunk main) replacement – called the Southern Relief – is going to make parts of Worcester St leading up to Woodham Road east of Linwood Ave one-way for the rest of this year. Some residents will not have access to their driveways.
Traffic effects upon residents and
drivers
Already, the block of Worcester St south
of Woodham Road is one-way, towards Linwood Ave only. From
25 May, two more blocks will be down to one-way and one lane
– from Surrey to Maclean St and from Rochester to Linwood
Ave. Outside these blocks residents will have two-way access
to their properties and parking spaces.
Woodham to Dacre most affected
The
block south of Woodham Road to Dacre St will be most
affected by this work with a full road closure while the
large trench to replace the badly damaged pipe is being put
in place using sheet piles. (See the attached PDF
invitation photo which was taken on a Fendalton pipe
project. The pipe trench for Worcester St is even wider.)
McConnell Dowell is working on ways to find safe parking
for residents in this block and other ways to help residents
while this work is
underway.
ENDS