Landscaping would be provided on the south side of Childers Street as part of the reinstatement works. The lost parking spaces are located on the road reserve, not on the VicTrack land, and the need for replacement spaces need to be determined following consultation with the City of Melbourne and PTV during the detailed design phase. Precinct 3: Arden Station Construction The main construction activity that may impact transport connectivity in Precinct 3 is the use of publicly owned land as a major staging and construction work site for the northern section of Melbourne Metro. Additional Truck and Traffic Movements As the Arden station precinct is planned to be one of the major sites for the construction of Melbourne Metro, more truck activity would be anticipated at this site than in other precincts. Activity at this site would extend over a period of around four years with 24-hour, 7-day operations and an average of approximately 260 truck trips each day for spoil removal and materials and equipment delivery. At peak activity, this could increase to around 360 truck movements per day. this amount of construction traffic would cause some disruptions, the roads in the vicinity of the site have sufficient capacity to accommodate the additional traffic, particularly as it would be spread across a number of routes minimising – the impact on any particular street. The trucks would then move out of the local area onto the arterial and motorway network, with most of this activity occurring outside peak periods when these roads have adequate spare capacity to accommodate the additional traffic. As current activities on the site already generate truck traffic in the area, the net impact would be considerably less than the truck generation numbers indicate. As discussed in Section 8.7, the impacts of additional traffic would be minimised through the adoption and implementation of a detailed transport management plan, which would include minimising truck movements during peak periods and avoiding truck movements at night time, where practical. Proposed construction traffic routes that have been developed for the precinct would move truck traffic away from local streets and to major arterial roads and CityLink as quickly as possible. These proposed routes are shown in Figure 84. Figure 84 Precinct 3: Proposed construction vehicle access routes
Landscaping would be provided on the south side of Childers Street as part of the reinstatement works. The lost parking spaces are located on the road reserve, not on the VicTrack land, and the need for replacement spaces need to be determined following consultation with the City of Melbourne and PTV during the detailed design phase. Precinct 3: Arden Station Construction The main construction activity that may impact transport connectivity in Precinct 3 is the use of publicly owned land as a major staging and construction work site for the northern section of Melbourne Metro. Additional Truck and Traffic Movements As the Arden station precinct is planned to be one of the major sites for the construction of Melbourne Metro, more truck activity would be anticipated at this site than in other precincts. Activity at this site would extend over a period of around four years with 24-hour, 7-day operations and an average of approximately 260 truck trips each day for spoil removal and materials and equipment delivery. At peak activity, this could increase to around 360 truck movements per day. this amount of construction traffic would cause some disruptions, the roads in the vicinity of the site have sufficient capacity to accommodate the additional traffic, particularly as it would be spread across a number of routes – minimising the impact on any particular street. The trucks would then move out of the local area onto the arterial and motorway network, with most of this activity occurring outside peak periods when these roads have adequate spare capacity to accommodate the additional traffic. As current activities on the site already generate truck traffic in the area, the net impact would be considerably less than the truck generation numbers indicate. As discussed in Section 8.7, the impacts of additional traffic would be minimised through the adoption and implementation of a detailed transport management plan, which would include minimising truck movements during peak periods and avoiding truck movements at night time, where practical. Proposed construction traffic routes that have been developed for the precinct would move truck traffic away from local streets and to major arterial roads and CityLink as quickly as possible. These proposed routes are shown in Figure 84. Figure 84 Precinct 3: Proposed construction vehicle access routes
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