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Traffic Management Sub-Plan
Uncontrolled when Printed: Revision D
Date: May 2010
Notification of local residents is required, and as the traffic flow is to be
stopped consultation with local council is to occur.
An increased risk of rear end collisions arises in any location where road
traffic is stopped for a period of time. Ensuring that there is sufficient
warning to road users before encountering the queue is essential.
6.1.4 Access Roads
Several accessways are to be traversed by the transmission line in both rural
and residential localities. Access roads are characterised by very low traffic
volumes, with vehicle types dominated by smaller vehicles. Notification is
limited to the resident/landholder of the property and is best achieved by
verbal communications to determine the most suitable method of traffic
control. Verbal communications may identify alternative options for access
for vehicles, thus eliminating vehicles from approaching the project area.
Assessing the level and times of service (assumed to peak at business hours
when residents are travelling to and from work) for accessways with
landholders may identify timeframes most suitable to carry out the project
works without causing delay to residents.
Trenching activities along Parkway Drive access ways are predicted to only
take approximately one day per accessway to complete.
6.2 TRANSMISSION LINE INSTALLATION IN A ROAD RESERVE
Transmission line upgrades within the road reserve will require traffic
management to direct traffic around or past works sites depending on
distance of the project works from the nearest traffic carrying lane.
In locations where traffic will be travelling past the worksite, traffic
management will involve warning signs to inform the presence of
construction workers (see Table 7.1). In locations that require diversion of
traffic for construction works to be undertaken, some form of traffic control
must remain in place when the site is unattended.
The closure of one lane of traffic or deviation of a lane using traffic cones or
bollards will be required along some routes where project works are occurring
within a road reserve and of distances described in Table 7.1. This will allow
for the construction in locations less than three metres (m) from the edge of
the roadway and where works progress across roadways.
The management methods for these partial or full road closures will be
undertaken in accordance with an appropriate Traffic Control Plans (TCP) and
will involve trained traffic controllers where necessary. TCP‘s will be
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