Main Roads Annual Report 2018 8 CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT OUR STORIES MATAGARUP BRIDGE, A COMPLEX FEAT OF ENGINEERING Matagarup Bridge enhances patron connectivity The central bridge arch, made from two between East Perth, Burswood Peninsula and ‘wishbone’ structures, is approximately 72 metres Optus Stadium. The bridge helps move event- above the water at its highest point and the steel day patrons away from residential streets in East and concrete deck stretches 370 metres from Perth and connects them to Perth CBD and bank-to-bank with a steel cable-stay span of 160 car park facilities. It will also provide year-round metres at its centre. Two smaller arches, either access for residents and the community to side of the central arch, complete the overhead playgrounds, picnic and barbeque areas plus a structure. network of walking and cycling tracks. It is set to Only two concrete piers are located in the river, become an iconic tourist attraction. respecting the area’s heritage and minimising Matagarup Bridge, named in recognition of the impact on the Swan River. The bridge deck is at cultural significance of the immediate Swan River least nine metres wide, wider at pause points, area to the local Whadjuk community, is a key and includes shelter. component of the Optus Stadium integrated The steel bridge components were supplied transport plan. and fabricated via a sub-alliance between Main Matagarup is the name given by traditional Roads, York Civil, Rizzani de Eccher and Western custodians to the area around Heirisson Island Australian company Civmec. Sub-contractors and means ‘place where the river is only leg deep, Fremantle Steel and Adwest provided bridge allowing it to be crossed’. deck and balustrade works respectively. The bridge arch assembly and complex lifting To accommodate future plans for a tourism process was a feat of engineering, a process venture, a walkway and lookout has been not previously undertaken on an infrastructure provided in the large central river arch. To see project in Western Australia. videos taken during construction, visit our YouTube site. Matagarup Bridge was delivered by the Swan River Pedestrian Bridge Alliance (SRPBA) comprising Main Roads, York Civil and Rizzani de Eccher. Main Roads Annual Report 2018 9 COMMITTED TO INCREASING OUR STORIES ABORIGINAL EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVES We actively support the State Government’s • Piloting the mandatory requirement for Aboriginal participation policy through several Aboriginal Participation Plans with weighted initiatives that have provided significant criteria and price preferences for other Capital opportunities for Aboriginal employment within Works tenders as well as the Goods and our projects and work activities. Services tenders. The Strategic Business Case for Aboriginal All contracts in the Metropolitan Region require Employment Initiatives was developed in a minimum of 10 per cent of the workforce to consultation with key representatives from comprise of Aboriginal people. In addition, a Aboriginal communities across the state, target of 2 per cent of engaged businesses are government agencies and contractors to identify to be an Aboriginal business registered on the what initiatives we can implement to improve the Aboriginal Business or Supply Nation directories. livelihood of Aboriginal people. Regionally, we are not only reaching our targets, Championed and led by the Aboriginal but exceeding them. In the Mid West-Gascoyne Employment Initiatives Taskforce these initiatives Region and Wheatbelt Region, currently 37 include: per cent and 23 per cent of the workforce • Creation of a Senior Advisor Aboriginal respectively, comprise of Aboriginal people. Engagement role dedicated to exploring Other major achievements within our projects opportunities and engagement with Aboriginal include 86 per cent Aboriginal employment businesses. This role is currently under on site in the first month of construction of the recruitment. Broome Cape Leveque project, of which 95 per • Development of a Program Implementation cent were local. For the Wyndham Spur and Plan framework based on the prioritised list of Maggies Jump Up sections upgrades, more than strategies in the business case. 45 per cent of total labour hours were undertaken • Incorporation of contract clauses for mandatory by Aboriginal people. For the Bow River Bridge, 31 requirements for Aboriginal participation, per cent of total labour hours were conducted by including dedicated Aboriginal trainees and Aboriginal people. employment targets in our Road Network This is a new era for Main Roads. It is estimated maintenance contracts; and stretch targets that 170 Aboriginal employment opportunities for employment of Aboriginal people and have been created as a result of our initiatives. businesses, and incentive payments for major These enable a focussed approach to increasing works. employment of Aboriginal people and businesses • Formation of an Aboriginal advisory group across our organisation and ultimately, within the comprising of external Aboriginal business road and bridge construction and maintenance leaders. industry. Main Roads Annual Report 2018 38 OUR STORIES INDIAN OCEAN DRIVE SAFETY REVIEW Core to our ‘Safe System’ approach is the belief Support from the state and federal governments that no person should be killed or seriously was provided in the form of $7 million funding injured on our roads. In line with this belief, Main in 2017-18 for the construction of four overtaking Roads joined experienced staff from the Road lanes on Indian Ocean Drive, between Two Rocks Safety Commission and the Western Australia and Lancelin. Police Force to conduct a road safety review on Additionally, the state government committed Indian Ocean Drive, between Two Rocks and $20 million from the 2018-19 budget for seal Lancelin. Responding to an increase in serious widening incorporating a Wide Centre-Line crashes along this section of road, the review Treatment to be applied to the section of examined road safety risk, road engineering and road. Relatively new to Western Australia, the driver behaviour. treatment provides a one-metre wide centre- Using a ‘Safe System’ approach, the team line coupled with audible line marking. This reviewed the issues and released a report in creates a greater separation between opposing November 2017 that outlined a number of traffic, allowing for additional reaction time if a recommendations including: driver unintentionally drifts across the centre-line • immediate reduction in the speed limit as an towards oncoming traffic. This treatment is also interim measure to support other short term included in the design of four new overtaking infrastructure improvements lanes between Seabird and Lancelin, which • interagency communication and education commenced in April 2018. strategy The combined effort to undertake a review of this • increase in police presence, focusing on unsafe magnitude highlights the State Government’s road use commitment to road safety. We will continue • centre and edge line maintenance to enhance to monitor the safety performance of Indian visibility and reflectivity Ocean Drive and further measures will be • installation of audible edge and centre-lines recommended on a priority basis as required • improved signage across the road network. • vegetation clearing to improve sight lines To see more about the review and the works • design review of intersections between Two being done, videos are available on our YouTube Rocks and Lancelin Channel. • assessment and management of roadside • Wide Centre-Line Treatment. Main Roads Annual Report 2018 39 CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT OUR STORIES PHILLIPSMATAGARUP RIVER BRIDGE, BRIDGE A COMPLEX FEAT OF ENGINEERING During February 2017, more than 60 per cent In parallel to the side-track construction, designs of the Great Southern Region road network were drawn and contract arrangements put in sustained damage due to widespread flooding. place to re-establish this permanent connection. The preliminary estimate of damage to State Working closely with the Shire of Ravensthorpe Government assets was $26.5 million. and local contractors to fast-track its The Phillips River Bridge, located on South reinstatement, we were able to open the new Coast Highway approximately 23 km west of Phillips River Bridge to all road users in February Ravensthorpe, was one of the most severely 2018. The new structure is double the length impacted sites with the structure completely and 1.5 metres higher than its predecessor. Most destroyed by the floods. Connecting local importantly, it has been constructed to withstand communities east and west of the river, the a one in 100 year flood event, similar to that bridge provided access to a broad range of experienced in 2017. goods and services and medical facilities. The We have received many compliments about the loss of the bridge, and the approaches to it, left new bridge and our responsiveness, with thanks communities isolated and caused significant from local communities. social and economic challenges. Temporary restoration works were immediately undertaken using local contractors and innovative contracting arrangements. In March 2017, east and west connectivity was restored with the establishment of a side-track around the site. Main Roads Annual Report 2018 42 OUR STORIES THE NEW MANDURAH TRAFFIC BRIDGE The new Mandurah Traffic Bridge has increased Completing the roadworks before the busy traffic capacity and provides the community with Christmas trading period helped