New insights have been revealed in the major Craigieburn Road upgrade project following the completion of major works in late 2024.
According to Major Roads Projects Victoria, the project saw around 20 kilometres of new lanes added between the Hume Highway and Mickleham Road, 16 new and upgraded traffic signal intersections, four kilometres of new and upgraded shared walking and cycling paths, 14.5km of underground stormwater pipes and 950 drainage pits installed, 4500 direct and 11500 indirect Victorian jobs during construction.
“It carries about 28,000 vehicles per day, to understand how important it was to upgrade this road,” MRPV’s senior project manager Dimuth Gammampila said.
“As part of the upgrade which we’ve recently completed, we’ve added extra lanes in each direction [which will] add significant extra capacity to Craigieburn Road.
“We’ve also upgraded several intersections along the way between Mickleham Road and the Hume Highway. We’ve also added safety features like crash barriers to improve safety.
“We’ve done all of this with the intent of reducing congestion in Craigieburn, improving travel times and increasing safety for all road users.”
Fulton Hogan was the construction partner for the Craigieburn Road Upgrade and worked alongside MRPV to carry out the works.
“There are a number of challenges in building roads like Craigieburn Road. One of the biggest challenges we had here was the utility services,” Fulton Hogan’s project manager Grant Deeble said.
“Across the 6.5km of Craigieburn Road, there have been about 2000 different interfaces with utility services, and only about 500 of those interfaces we were able to relocate; the rest we had to build around.”
According to several stakeholders, including the Victorian Police Department, the Victorian SES and Fire Rescue Victoria, these upgrades have been a vast improvement of the previous infrastructure.
“The new transformation of Craigieburn Road is a real gamechanger for Fire Rescue Victoria in our response,” Fire Rescue Victoria’s senior station officer John Macklin said.
“Traffic can move freely and we can pass through to traffic and get to emergencies a lot quicker.”
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