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GRAMPIANS WAY Infrastructure Needs Analysis Grampians Tourism In GRAMPIANS WAY Infrastructure Needs Analysis Grampians Tourism Board Driscoll Engineering Services Pty Ltd 69 Humffray St Nth, Ballarat 3350 August 2013 Grampians Tourism Board Infrastructure Needs Analysis EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report has been commissioned by Signing of the Grampians Way is a key the Grampians Tourism Board to part of the infrastructure required to provide an analysis of infrastructure establish the Grampians Way. The needs in developing the Grampians prime purpose of tourist signing is to Way, identified in the 2012 Grampians give visitors direction or guidance to Way Ring Road Scoping Study. tourist attractions, services and facilities. The Grampians Way is a proposed ring Tourism signage is subject to the road approximately 285km in length VicRoads Tourist Signing Guidelines. circling the Grampians National Park using the existing road network and has One aim of the guidelines is to ensure been identified as a means of increasing ease of visitor navigation by using the tourism to the region through; most effective combination of direction increased visitation dispersal, signs, tourist and service signs, creation of tourism investment marketing/promotional material and opportunities, accredited visitor information centres. providing alternative routes around the park, and It is recommended that an application the creation of a new tourism for a Tourist Drive be made on the basis product – the Grampians Way. of the projected increase in visitation to the Grampians region in the Grampians The outcome of this report is to identify Way Ring Road Scoping Study. infrastructure, including toilet facilities, VicRoads has indicated that it is unlikely viewing areas and signage to support that the Grampians Way would be the development of the Grampians Way. approved as a Tourist Drive, however The report provides cost estimates for lodging an application will provide identified infrastructure works, and certainty in further development of the recommends priorities for staged project. construction in line with funding opportunities. There are a number of funding opportunities available however it is The total estimated cost of developing considered that the size of the individual the infrastructure along the route is projects may limit the ability to obtain $7.65M, and includes some items not funding. Funding will typically require identified in the Grampians Way Ring matching funding from the applicant/s. Road Scoping Study. A collaborative approach to the project The funds required to develop a project is required to maximise the opportunity such as the Grampians Way are not to obtain co-funding and strengthen any readily available from stakeholders. funding application . Road authorities currently suffer a funding gap whereby there is insufficient It is considered that funding of individual funding to adequately maintain the projects for the project will be difficult for existing road networks. External the following reasons; funding sources will be necessary to develop and maintain the infrastructure Viewing Areas – high cost, may be required for the Grampians Way. difficult to justify a cost benefit. Public Toilets – subject to VicRoads funding. Driscoll Engineering Services Pty Ltd Grampians Tourism Board Infrastructure Needs Analysis Intersection Upgrades – requires crash history to obtain funding. The report makes the following Road Upgrades – Mt Zero Rd and recommendations: part Flat Rock Rd requires Parks Application to VicRoads for the Victoria funding. Grampians Way to become a Remove vegetation – no funding Tourist Drive; available. Four sites for new viewing areas; Bridge upgrades – expensive, not in A site for a public toilet on Henty Councils’ program. Hwy; Upgrading the intersection of For these reasons, it is considered that Victoria Point Rd and Victoria the Strategic Tourism Investment Grants Valley Rd; which provides funding for up to $1 Construction of Winfields Rd, Mt million to support a small number of Zero Rd and Flat Rock Rd; larger scale projects may provide the Review route to exclude best opportunity for a successful funding construction of Flat Rock Rd and application, whereby a number of part Mt Zero Rd if funds are not individual projects can be grouped available, and make route to together. Hollow Mountain and Mt Zero car parks in-out from Winfields Using this approach, it is recommended Rd; that the recommended priorities be Widening of two bridges; reviewed. For example, an application Development of a tourist signing for funding under that scheme may strategy; include say, three individual projects Priority listing for individual such as; projects; public toilets/viewing area at An audit of culverts to ensure Glenisla, trafficable width is suitable for viewing area on Moyston tourist traffic. Willaura Rd, and Negotiation with VicRoads to tourism signage construct toilets at the existing with a total cost of approximately picnic area approximately 8km $1.47M. south of Cherrypool. Funding applications not be As a single project, it would have the limited to individual projects member Councils, VicRoads and Parks A financial commitment be Victoria as stakeholders and includes obtained from all stakeholders single projects distant from the main prior to any funding application tourist centre of Halls Gap, located on being considered. both ‘sides’ of the Grampians and is then representative of the ring road concept. Driscoll Engineering Services Pty Ltd Grampians Tourism Board Infrastructure Needs Analysis TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 1 1.1 The Grampians Way ......................................................................................... 1 1.2 Report Outcomes .............................................................................................. 1 2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION ............................................................................. 3 2.1 Grampians Way Ring Road Scoping Study ....................................................... 3 2.2 Stakeholders ..................................................................................................... 3 2.3 VicRoads Tourist Signing Guidelines ................................................................ 3 2.4 Funding ............................................................................................................. 3 3 VIEWING AREAS .................................................................................................... 5 3.1 General Requirements for a Viewing Area ........................................................ 5 3.2 North West ........................................................................................................ 5 3.2.1 Location A1; Henty Hwy ............................................................................. 5 3.2.2 Location A2; Brimpaen Laharum Rd........................................................... 5 3.2.3 Recommendation ....................................................................................... 6 3.3 South West ....................................................................................................... 6 3.3.1 Location ..................................................................................................... 6 3.3.2 Infrastructure. ............................................................................................. 6 3.3.3 Coordinating Authority ................................................................................ 7 3.4 South East ........................................................................................................ 7 3.4.1 Location ..................................................................................................... 7 3.4.2 Infrastructure. ............................................................................................. 7 3.4.3 Coordinating Authority ................................................................................ 7 3.5 North East ......................................................................................................... 7 3.5.1 Location ..................................................................................................... 7 3.5.2 Infrastructure. ............................................................................................. 8 3.5.3 Coordinating Authority ................................................................................ 8 3.6 Funding Opportunities ....................................................................................... 8 4 REST AREAS AND PUBLIC TOILETS ................................................................... 9 4.1 Parks Victoria - Cherrypool ............................................................................... 9 4.2 VicRoads........................................................................................................... 9 4.3 Potential Locations ............................................................................................ 9 4.3.1 Cherrypool ................................................................................................. 9 4.3.2 Glenisla Crossing Road.............................................................................. 9 4.4 Coordinating Authority ..................................................................................... 10 4.5 Funding Opportunities ..................................................................................... 10 5 INTERSECTION
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