Work under way on Ashbuton’s second bridge business case
From local democracy reporter Jonathan Leask:
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Work is under way on the business case for the proposed second bridge over the Ashburton River in Ashburton.
Stantec has started work on the detailed business case for the second urban bridge at the Chalmers Ave site and is expected to be completed by July to be submitted to Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency in August.
McCann said Stantec was already preparing for the topographic and geotechnical surveys would be commencing in the near future.
“They do all site investigation, survey work, geotech work, preliminary design, landscape architect, drainage storm water - it’s actual design.”
All that work will produce a detailed design that will be used to determine the cost of the second bridge for Waka Kotahi to consider.
“[The project] is at the point where they need a design to do a cost estimate which is a big part of it so they need to do all that work to work out what it’s going to cost,” council roading manager Mark Chamberlain said.
It is the third stage of the business case and follows the decision to progress with the second urban Ashburton bridge off Chalmers Ave and linking south via a new road to Grahams Rd.
Chalmers Ave was preferred over a duplicate State Highway 1 bridge off West St.
The council has budgeted $7.5m in the long-term plan for its anticipated share of the cost of construction.
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