Water main relocation and survey work Wool Street and adjacent to the Dog Off-leash Area

Further impact of Legacy Way Tunnel Project on ANZAC Park! (Update November 2011 - possible alternative to this access route from the Western Freeway is being explored. Transcity should notify us by the end of 2011.)

Read the 'Transcity Information Notice' received today HERE:
 

In coming months, Transcity will need to undertake works to relocate the trunk water main which runs under the Western Freeway.

Currently, the water main is located 1-2 metres beneath the Western Freeway, approximately 350 metres west of the Mt Coot-tha Roundabout. To enable construction of the entry and exit into the tunnel, the service needs to be lowered to approximately nine metres below the road surface.

Survey work

To inform the design process for these works, Transcity needs to undertake survey work near Crossway College and the Toowong dog off-leash area between Wednesday 20 July and Friday 22 July.

This work will be undertaken during normal day hours, 6.30am-6.30pm.

Working with you

Following survey activities and detailed design, further detail regarding the water main works will be available. As this information becomes available, Transcity will work with local residents and businesses to minimise impacts to the community.

Our project

Legacy Way is a road tunnel that will connect the Western Freeway at Toowong with the Inner City Bypass (ICB) at Kelvin Grove. It will provide an alternative route to local roads for traffic leaving the Western Freeway and travelling to and from the ICB. When it opens, Legacy Way will reduce, by up to 44%, the peak hour travel time of journeys from the Centenary Bridge to the ICB.

Water main relocation work

From mid-August 2011, Transcity will begin works to relocate the western water main. The works involve sending a 2.4m diameter tunnel bore from a launch pit in the western worksite under the Western Freeway through to a retrieval pit between the dog off-leash area and the freeway where it will be retrieved. All spoil from the tunnel will be removed at the western worksite.

Transcity will install a new pipe from the western worksite which will be connected to the water main on the southern side of the freeway.

To facilitate this work, Transcity will build temporary road access from Wool Street to the retrieval pit area. This work will require clearing activities and the installation of an access ramp at the end of Wool Street.

Workers will be bused in each day, to avoid parking on local streets. The delivery of oversized equipment and machinery will be required at certain stages throughout the works.

All areas will be rehabilitated following the completion of this activity and Transcity will work to improve road conditions at the corner of Wool Street and Broseley Road.

The Toowong dog off-leash area will not be impacted by these works.

Please contact a member of Transcity’s Community Relations team on 1800 778 772 for more information regarding upcoming construction activities.

Legacy Way Western Community Liaison Group Meeting 6 - Minutes and Slides

Meeting 6, 13 July 2011: Minutes and Slides HERE

Community Liaison Group Meeting 6 - Wednesday 13 July 2011

Transcity Legacy Way Western Connection Community Liaison Group Meeting 6 - Wednesday 13 July 2011 - email Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong CLG Representative if you have questions or matters to raise with BCC and/or Transcity about the tunnel project: faptoowong@gmail.com

'Like' our FAPT Facebook page and post your questions.

Legacy Way Western Worksite 13 July 2011

Media: The Courier-Mail June 28 2011

Airport Link residents win battle against noise
PEOPLE power has delivered a win for residents tormented by round-the-clock construction noise from the Airport Link, but many fear it is too little, too late. HERE

Media: brisbanetimes.com.au June 27 2011

Let's hope the residents of Toowong are given more consideration during the Legacy Way project.

Tunnel noise not on: Ombudsman
The state government has failed to protect residents in Brisbane’s northern suburbs from excessive noise during the construction of the Airport Link Tunnel, the Queensland Ombudsman has found.
Ombudsman Phil Clarke today tabled his report, The Airport Link Project: An Investigation Into Complaints About Night-Time Surface Work, in State Parliament.
Mr Clarke said there were inadequate guidelines for noise on the project, run by Thiess John Holland, and that existing ones were poorly policed amid confusion over which government agency was responsible. Read the full story HERE

Read the Report HERE - Report of the Queensland Ombudsman, The Airport Link Project Report, An investigation into complaints about night-time surface work June 2011

Kalinga Wooloowin Residents Association (KWRA) represents residents impacted by the Airport Link Project and made the complaint to the Ombudsman.

Media: Courier Mail June 24 2011

This story is about the eastern end of the Legacy Way tunnel project.
120-year-old fig tree saved 11 years ago to be felled to make way for Legacy Way tunnel. Read the story HERE

Electricity supply installation – Wool St and ANZAC Park Toowong

Transcity Construction Notification for the cable installation HERE

Image: Transcity

Transcity Legacy Way Construction Notifications

Works notification – Sheet piling (June 2011)
From Thursday 9 June 2011 Transcity will commence sheet piling works at the western worksite in Toowong.

It is expected that these works may take up to four weeks to complete.

Works will be undertaken from 6:30am to 6:30pm, Monday to Saturday.

More information HERE

Image: Transcity

Legacy Way Western Community Liaison Group Meeting 5 - Minutes and Slides

Meeting 5, 8 June 2011: Minutes and Slides HERE

See Page 5 of meeting slides for the Legacy Way undergroud power supply cable to cross ANZAC Park: Site electricity supply – revised alignment

Revised by Transcity and Energex at the request of FAPT so that the route would not impact on the restoration of the Avenue of Honour by 2015.

Environmental Management and Environmental Management Sub Plans

The construction of Legacy Way must comply with a list of environmental conditions that have been established by Queensland's Coordinator-General. Transcity has prepared an Environmental Management Plan to ensure compliance with the Coordinator-General’s conditions and relevant legislation during the design and construction phases of the Project.

The plans are available HERE and also available for review in the Legacy Way Visitor Centre, Level 2, 80 Jephson Street, Toowong.

Community Liaison Group Meeting 5 - Wednesday 8 June 2011

Transcity Legacy Way Western Connection Community Liaison Group Meeting 5 - Wednesday 8 June, 2011 - email Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong CLG Representative if you have questions or matters to raise with BCC and/or Transcity about the tunnel project: faptoowong@gmail.com

'Like' our FAPT Facebook page and post your questions.

Community Liaison Group Meeting minutes and slides

Legacy Way underground power supply cable route revised

After consultation with Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong and others, Transcity have advised that the proposed route for the underground Legacy Way power supply cable has been revised to minimise impact on residents in Wool Street and on BCC heritage listed ANZAC Park. This first proposal was to run along Wool Street and across ANZAC Park near the Dog off-leash area.

While the cable will still need to be installed from the western worksite near the Botanic Gardens, across ANZAC Park, then along Wool Street to the Energex substation on the corner of Wool and Miskin Streets, the revised route moves the trenching works on Wool Street to the opposite side of the road from the residences. It also removes the need for any surface works through ANZAC Park, by boring deep under the park, and therefore any impacts to the future Avenue of Honour restoration.

Image: Transcity

New 'Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong' Facebook Page

'Like' HERE

Legacy Way Western Community Liaison Group Meeting 4 - Minutes and Slides

Meeting 4, 11 May 2011: Minutes and Slides HERE

Transcity

Contact details HERE 
Sign up for project updates HERE

Legacy Way underground power supply cable

To be installed along Wool Street - more information here

ANZAC PARK Research Project

Image: ANZAC Park Avenue of Honour

Our campaign is over, we have saved the park, but the history of ANZAC Park, corner of Wool and Dean Streets, Toowong, continues to be researched and the file is growing thicker. If you have anything you would like to contribute -  notes, photographs, documents, etc -  please email: faptoowong@gmail.com

Thanks to all those who have contributed so far.

Did you know ANZAC Park has an Avenue of Honour planted at the beginning of last century? Some of the palms and other trees are still there.

• Treenet 'Avenues of Honour' Project 1915 - 2015 HERE
• BCC 'Avenues of Honour' Research Report 2007 lists ANZAC Park HERE
• The 'Avenue of Honour' in ANZAC Park was not mentioned in the Northern Link Cultural Heritage EIS of September 2008 HERE

Subscribe to the new FAPT email list for updates about ANZAC Park and/or the Legacy Way Tunnel Project: faptoowong@gmail.com

Image: Florence Hamilton (c1923) beside memorial palm and plaque in ANZAC Park, Wool Street.

'SAVE ANZAC PARK' campaign now over - WE SAVED ANZAC PARK!!

Visit Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong (FAPT) 'SAVE ANZAC PARK' campaign Blogspot HERE

Message from TOOWONG RSL

My most sincere congratulations to the Save Anzac Park Team,

This is a huge success for you.
You can now have that break and get your life back.

Warmest regards,

Kerry Gallagher
President Toowong RSL Sub Branch

Legacy Way Community Liaison Group Meeting 4 - Wednesday 11 May 2011

Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong (FAPT) has a Community Liaison Group (CLG) Member representing FAPT and the wider community at the western connection, who attends the CLG Meetings along with ten other representatives from the local community, BCC and Transcity. The purpose of the CLGs is to provide communuity input on a range of matters. The CLG's provide an advisory role to Transcity on community issues, concerns and values.

At the moment the main issue for ANZAC Park is the Legacy Way underground power supply cable which will run from the sub-station on the corner of Wool and Miskin Streets, along Wool Street, crossing ANZAC Park near the dog off-leash park to the Legacy Way western worksite. We are discussing the best possible route so that this power supply cable doesn't impact on the remnants of the Avenue of Honour. Our other concern, of course, is our friends across the pedestrian/bikeway at Mt Coot-tha.

Email the FAPT CLG Representative if you have any questions: faptoowong@gmail.com

Next CLG Meeting: Wednedsday, 11 May 2011, then 6 June 2011.

Also sign up for Transcity Legacy Way emails and/or updates HERE