Glenbrook Intersection Upgrade Community Update | July 2018
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Glenbrook intersection upgrade Community Update | July 2018 The Australian and NSW governments are upgrading the Great Western Highway and Ross Street intersection at Glenbrook as part of the Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan, a 10 year $3.6 billion road investment program. Wascoe Street, Ross Street and Great Western Highway intersection at Glenbrook. Roads and Maritime Services started work on the • closing access to the Great Western Highway Glenbrook intersection upgrade between Ross from Hare Street, on the south side of the highway Street and Hare Street, Glenbrook on 12 June 2018. • improved safety for motorists and pedestrians. Stuart Ayres, the NSW Minister for Sport, Minister for Western Sydney, Minister for WestConnex and The Glenbrook intersection upgrade will improve Member for Penrith, helped announce the start of safety and access along the Great Western construction to the community. Highway, while enhancing the primary gateway to Glenbrook Village. The upgrade will include: The contract has now been awarded and • new traffic lights at Ross Street to enable safe construction is expected to be completed by the right turns onto the Great Western Highway end of 2018, weather permitting. • extending the existing right turn lanes on the Great Western Highway Project benefits • Improved access to and from Glenbrook at Ross Street • Reduced congestion and improved safety at the Hare Street and Wascoe Street intersections • An enhanced primary gateway to and from Glenbrook Village Centre and the Blue Mountains • Improved safety for pedestrians and motorists • Additional intersection capacity to accommodate future traffic volume increases Key features Noise The key features of the project include: To reduce the impact to the community, noisy construction will be managed according to Roads • new traffic lights at the Great Western Highway and Maritime environment noise management and Ross Street intersection with pedestrian standards. In addition, local residents and crossings businesses will be given advance notice of any • right turns permitted from Ross Street onto the planned noisy or night work. Great Western Highway • closing general traffic access to the Great Western Highway from Hare Street (south), while Construction hours maintaining access for emergency vehicles Work will take place during standard construction • extending the existing right turn lanes on the hours between 7am and 6pm Monday to Friday and Great Western Highway, allowing for more 8am and 1pm on Saturday, weather permitting. We vehicles turning right into Ross Street and Hare will notify you in advance of any work outside these Street (north) standard hours. • new signage, line marking and footpath connections. Changed traffic conditions The speed limit on the Great Western Highway Upcoming work between Ross Street and Hare Street, Glenbrook is Work will take place over the next six reduced to 60 km/h, 24 hours a day, seven days a months including: week until project completion in late 2018, weather permitting. Speed limits will be reduced to 40 km/h • establishing the work area and site compound, during any night work. installing concrete safety barriers and adjusting road signs and line marking • relocating utilities and drainage • modifying medians to allow for extended right turn lanes on the Great Western Highway • modifying access to the Great Western Highway from Hare Street (south) to improve safety for road users • installing new traffic lights at Ross Street to enable safer right turns onto the Great Western Highway • installing a new bus bay • constructing new footpaths. Roads and Maritime Services Glenbrook intersection upgrade Existing traffic lights Existing bus stop Site New traffic lights GREAT WESTERN HIGHWAY to be adjusted to be maintained compound with pedestrian crossings HARE STREET Connect existing oval footpath to new pedestrian footpath GREAT WESTERN HIGHWAY WASCOE STREET Emergency services MANN STREET Close Hare Street New bus bay Extend right turn access to highway (south) access to the lanes in both via a 'mountable kerb' Great Western Highway directions STREET ROSS Legend Road Median New footpath Improving Easing Catering for Western safety congestion Sydney’s growth Roads and Maritime Services Glenbrook intersection upgrade Great Western Hwy, east of Ross Street at exit to the Glenbrook intersection service road (looking east). Great Western Highway and Ross Street intersection (looking west towards Hare Street). Roads and Maritime Services Great Western Highway and Hare Street intersection (looking south along Hare Street). Contact If you have any questions please contact the project team. 1800 931 743 [email protected] Glenbrook intersection upgrade RD MILLER Pty Ltd, PO Box 461 Bega NSW 2550 rms.nsw.gov.au/GlenbrookUpgrade If you need help understanding this information, please contact the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450 and ask them to call us on 1800 931 743. July 2018 RMS 18 882 Privacy Roads and Maritime Services (“RMS”) is subject to the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998(“PPIP Act”) which requires that we comply with the Information Privacy Principles set out in the PPIP Act. All information in correspondence is collected for the sole purpose of assisting in the delivery this project. The information received, including names and addresses of respondents, may be published in subsequent documents unless a clear indication is given in the correspondence that all or part of that information is not to be published. 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