General News
14 March, 2023
Apostles trail continues
WORK continues on stage one of the Twelve Apostles Trail Project.
WORK continues on stage one of the Twelve Apostles Trail Project.
Following on from the Christmas period shutdown work has been restarted with a number of parts of the project completed including:
Concrete path and pavement works at the car park lookout;
Earthworks and fencing for part of the concrete path east of the Great Ocean Road lookout;
Works at the Desailly Street/Lord Street intersection and the Great Ocean Road lookout are continuing;
Approval from Telstra for a plan to protect assets;
Approaches and retaining wall at Gristede’s cattle underpass; and
All cattle underpass bridges installed.
Upcoming works include:
Completing the lookout car park;
Landscaping at Desailly Street and McCue Street intersections will take place after civil works are completed in March;
Approaches on all cattle underpass bridges to align smoothly with trail;
Continue construction works to path east of the Great Ocean Road lookout;
Clearing vegetation between the Campbells Creek bridge and the bus shelter; and
Repair works on trail where scouring has occurred on sections of trail on North South Road and Timboon Peterborough Road.
The project received $4.5 million from the state government’s Building Works package and $800,000 from the Federal Local Roads and Community Infrastructure program.