Working hours
Bridge Street work
In April 2022, we letterbox dropped and emailed all impacted buildings to discuss the proposed works. We would like to thank everyone who responded with feedback. We have been carefully considering all the feedback provided to date and have been negotiating and making arrangements to incorporate into our works program.
The project has received majority support to increase our work up to five nights a week to minimise the construction program and complete the works as quickly as possible.
We have also received some concerns about night work and the length of the work and have taken on board this feedback. To address your concerns, we have talked to Traffic Management Centre (TMC) to seek approval to do more of our work during the day and complete the majority of the work in May. These changes will provide three nights of respite during the week.
We have received approval from the TMC for limited day works (Saturdays and Sundays) when the traffic volumes are lower and have a further requests pending.
In Bridge Street, we are now planning to work:
- Saturday and Sunday from 6am to 10pm with noisy work after 7am
- Monday to Thursday nights from 9pm to 5am - we have put forward a case with the TMC to allow access to Bridge Street earlier in the evening
- Monday to Friday from 10am to 3pm (as required) to do noisy saw cutting. This request is pending with the TMC and would remove the requirement to complete these works at night.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.
Macquarie, Bent and Hunter Streets
In April 2022, we letterbox dropped and emailed all impacted buildings to discuss the proposed works. We would like to thank everyone who responded with feedback. We have been carefully considering all the feedback provided to date and have been negotiating and making arrangements to incorporate into our works program.
We will come back to the community shortly with an outcome to this consultation.
Working hours will continue to be 7pm to 5am, doing the noisiest activities (saw cutting and rock breaking) before midnight, where possible. We will continue to seek road licensing approvals for day and weekend work to reduce the impact of night work on residents.
Keeping you informed
Ausgrid will issue email notification updates detailing work locations and dates. Residents can register for these updates to be emailed to them at majorprojects@ausgrid.com.au.
For information related to the project, you may contact Ausgrid on 1800 604 765 or at majorprojects@ausgrid.com.au.
We thank you for your continued patience as we work to improve the network reliability in the area.