The $160 million O-Bahn City Access Project in South Australia has completed a major milestone and now heads into the major tunnelling earthworks component.
The alignment of East Terrace near Rymill Park changed last week, allowing traffic travelling on East Terrace between Grenfell and Hutt streets to be switched to a new road.
The change allows for the next stage of the project – new excavation as part of the $6 million major tunneling earthworks component – to commence.
This stage has been unbundled to maximise the benefit to local South Australia Businesses.
The work has been released by the major contractor McConnell Dowell Australia under the South Australian Industry Participation Policy, giving local businesses a bigger share of major Government projects.
By splitting up the earthworks package, and awarding components to small-to-medium contractors rather than a single contractor, an additional eight South Australian businesses are now working on this stage.
The 8 SMEs that are benefitting from the unbundling of the earthworks package are:
- Marzilli Transport
- Page Excavations
- CB&S Civil
- CJP Hire
- ACT Hire
- Envirosweep
- Lucas TCS
- MK2 Recruitment
“When local firms win business, it helps create jobs and investment in South Australia.Through the Industry Participation Policy we are ensuring that strong investment in building South Australia provides maximum benefits for the local construction industry and the thousands of South Australians it employs,” said Acting Transport and Infrastructure Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith.
“Not only does the O-Bahn City Access Project represent a significant investment in building a stronger public transport network, it will provide enormous benefits to the more than 79,000 road users who navigate this part of the Inner Ring Route and is creating valuable work for local businesses.”
The $160 million O-Bahn City Access Project will create a 650-metre tunnel linking priority bus lanes on Hackney Road and Grenfell Street to improve travel times and reliability for Adelaide’s busiest public transport network, as well as for traffic on the Inner City Ring Route.