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Home>Council Services>Major Works in Hume
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 Two Brand New Basketball Courts Ready for Use!
Main Street Extension
Hume Central Secondary College
Sunbury Streetscape
Highgate Recreation Reserve
Coolaroo Station
Vineyard Road
M80 Project
SmartBus Route 902
Other Key Projects
| Broadmeadows Town Park | |  Following the July display of the Broadmeadows Town Park Landscape Plan in the Hume Global Learning Centre, Broadmeadows Customer Service Centre and Broadmeadows Leisure Centre, the project is entering the detailed design phase. This will ensure all the elements of the park are documented and ready for construction, including the sustainable planting, lighting and integrated water management system, to deliver a green, multifunctional and family friendly park. Funding for the construction of this project will be sought as part of the 2010/11 budget planning process.
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| Main Street Extension | | The extension to Main Street Broadmeadows, between Dimboola Road and Pearcedale Parade is well underway. Works taking place include the extension of the street, landscaping of the area and parking areas. Main Street extension is still on track to be completed by the end of the year. Continuing this road will greatly improve access to the Broadmeadows Leisure Centre, Youth Central, the basketball stadium, netball courts, Hume Central Secondary College, and other key sites in this precinct.
Link to more information on the Main Street Extension.
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| Hume Central Secondary College | | The new senior campus site for Hume Central Secondary College has also commenced works. The site is currently being stripped back and earthworks are underway.
The Campus design will feature state-of-the-art facilities for students in Years 10, 11 and 12, and will front on to the north side of the new Main Street, opposite the existing Broadmeadows Leisure Centre and be integrated with the Town Park.
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| Sunbury Streetscape | | Council is pleased to report that the Sunbury Streetscape works are progressing solidly towards completion. The project is being undertaken within a tight timeframe to minimise disruption to residents and traders. Works will continue through four stages until 30 November 2009, where the major construction will cease during the Christmas trading period, and will re-commence in late January 2010. The beautification works are running to schedule and expected to be completed by March 2010.
Link to more information about the Sunbury Streetscape.
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| Highgate Recreation Reserve | | Highgate Reserve Pavilion construction set to commence! Construction on the $3.6 million Highgate Reserve Pavilion is soon to commence, signalling the start of an exciting project for the Craigieburn community!
Devco Construction Management will begin work in next month on the new sports pavilion, which is the next stage in the $9.3 million Highgate Recreation Reserve at the Highlands residential community, in one of Melbourne’s key growth-corridors.
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| Coolaroo Station | | The new train station at Coolaroo will be built on the Craigieburn line halfway between the existing Broadmeadows and Roxburgh Park stations.
The next stage for the new station will be to enter the design phase, and construction is expected to begin in 2010.
The new station will feature two platforms with passenger shelters and seating, pick-up bays for buses and a taxi rank, a park and ride facility plus short term drop off points, ticket machines, timetable and passenger information display, closed circuit camera security surveillance, pedestrian and bicycle access. For further information visit www.transport.vic.gov.au
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| Vineyard Road | | The $25 million duplication of Vineyard Road is progressing well. This is the 3km stretch of new road funded by the State Government as part of its Outer Metropolitan Arterial Roads program. Construction activities are occurring in the urban zone between Mitchells Lane and McDougall Road and the rural zone between McDougall Road and Moore Road. The purpose of these road works is to provide safer conditions, improve traffic flow, reduce delays during peak hour, improve access between the Sunbury township and the
Calder Freeway for both local residents and visitors.
For more information please contact Vicroads Traffic Control centre on 13 11 70 or Vicroads Project office on 9303 6100.
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| M80 Project | | The M80 Ring Road upgrade is a $2.25 billion project to widen and improve the Western and Metropolitan Ring Roads, extending 38km from the Princes Freeway at Laverton North to the Greensborough Highway at Greensborough. Planned works will improve safety, ease congestion, reduce travel times and improve reliability for all road users, especially during peak periods. Works are expected to commence within Hume in late November 2009. For further details visit www.vicroads.com.au
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| SmartBus Route 902 | | The SmartBus route 902 will be ready in early 2010. It will run from Chelsea to Airport West, via Springvale, Nunawading, Doncaster, Eltham, Greensborough and Broadmeadows. Several locations around Hume are undergoing bus priority works to make the route more ‘bus friendly’ before services start next year. The first bus priority project, at the intersection of Johnstone Street and Pearcedale Parade, Broadmeadows, is now complete. Further bus priority works are about to start at these locations in October:
Mickleham Road, Gladstone Park - between the Tullamarine
Freeway exit and Broadmeadows Road Deviation roundabout
Melrose Drive, Tullamarine - south of Melrose Court (near the Caterpillar Industrial site)
For more information on Future Route 902 and the planned stops, please contact the VicRoads SmartBus team on 1300 309 571 or visit www.transport.vic.gov.au
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| Other Key Projects | | Key projects taking shape over the next 12 months:
Stage 1 upgrade of the two-court basketball stadium extension at Craigieburn Leisure Centre
Construction of Aitken Boulevard
Building extension and car park at the Gladstone Park Bowls Club
Sunbury Town Centre redevelopment
Upgrade to the Westmeadows shopping area
Design work for a two-court basketball extension and netball courts at Boardman Reserve in Sunbury
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