Night closure on Lawrence Hargrave Drive at Stanwell Tops

• Motorists are advised of an upcoming closure on Lawrence Hargrave Drive for one night next week for routine maintenance work. Work includes vegetation maintenance, clearing gutters and drains, maintenance of guardrails and litter collection to improve safety for motorists. Work will be carried out between Bald Hill at Stanwell Tops and Chellow Dene Avenue in Stanwell Park between 8pm and 4am on Monday 26 February, weather permitting. Detours will be in place via the M1 Princes Motorway and Bulli Pass as well as Otford Road and Lawrence Hargrave Drive, Motorists should allow up to 20 minutes additional travel time and are advised to drive to the conditions and follow the directions of signs and traffic control.

• 22 FEB: Night closures of Masters Road for maintenance. Motorists are advised of upcoming night closures on Masters Road between Springhill Road and the M1 Princes Motorway at Springhill to carry out maintenance work including clearing drains and trimming. Masters Road westbound will be closed on Monday 26 February and eastbound will be closed on Tuesday 27 February between 8pm and 4am, weather permitting. Detours will be in place via the M1 Princes Motorway, Five Islands Road and Springhill Road.

Landslip repairs to start on Bulli Pass

Release from Member for Keira Ryan Park's office, 20 February 2024

Construction is set to begin later this month to repair significant landslip damage on Bulli Pass caused by record-breaking rainfall in 2022 in an $8 million dollar project funded by the NSW and Commonwealth Governments.

Transport for NSW (Transport) is committing multiple crews to work side-by-side so the complex repairs starting on Tuesday 27 February 2024 can be completed as quickly as possible, but the work will still require several months of changed traffic conditions on Bulli Pass.

Three landslip sites are located at the top section of Bulli Pass between the M1 Princes Motorway and hairpin bend, with another about one kilometre downhill from the hairpin bend.

The total work area required to repair the four landslip sites is about the size of two Olympic swimming pools.

These landslips occurred when the Illawarra escarpment received almost five times the average monthly rainfall in March 2022, and then eight and a half times the June average.

The road must be closed in both directions overnight for five nights per week for a period of five months while the work is carried out at the sites on the top section of road.

Transport has planned these repairs to be carried out when traffic volumes are lightest – from 7.30pm to 4.30am, Sundays to Thursdays – to minimise the impact on motorists.

Detours will be in place during the road closures either via Lawrence Hargrave Drive or the M1 Princes Motorway and Memorial Drive adding up to 20 minutes to journeys.

Updates from Transport for NSW

• 16 FEB: Night work on M1 Princes Motorway. Motorists are advised of night work next week on the M1 Princes Motorway between Memorial Drive at North Wollongong and Masters Road at Figtree. Work includes general maintenance, clearing drains and trimming vegetation to improve safety. Work will be carried out between 8pm and 4am from Monday 19 to Thursday 22 February, weather permitting. There will be intermittent closures of the on and off ramps on the M1 Princes Motorway between Memorial Drive and Masters Road which will be signposted. Single lane closures and a reduced speed limit of 40 km/h will be in place for the safety of workers and motorists.
• 15 FEB: Motorists are advised of changed traffic conditions on Picton Road between the westbound rest area and Cordeaux Dam as safety improvements work continues. Work will include installation of safety barrier and fencing. Work will be carried out for three weeks from Monday 19 February to Thursday 8 March between 8 pm and 4am, Sunday to Thursday nights, weather permitting. A reduced speed limit of 40 km/h will apply through the work area during work hours. Single lane closures, stop/slow traffic control and a reduced speed limit of 40 km/h will be in place for the safety of workers and motorists. 

• 15 FEB: Motorists are advised of upcoming changed traffic conditions on the Princes Motorway between the Croome Road overbridge and the Tongarra Road off-ramp at Albion Park to for asphalting work to be carried out. Work will be carried out from 7pm Friday 6 February to 5am Monday 19 February, and from 7pm on Monday 26 February to 5am Tuesday 27 February, weather permitting. Single lane closures, and a reduced speed of 40 km/h will be in place during work hours for the safety of workers and road users.

• 12 FEB:  Motorists are advised of the upcoming closure of Lady Wakehurst Drive between McKell Avenue and Otford Lookout for maintenance work this week. The road will be closed in both directions for three days between 8am and 3pm, from Tuesday 13 February to Thursday 15 February, weather permitting. Work will include general maintenance, guardrail repairs, trimming vegetation and clearing gutters and drains to improve safety. Detours will be in place via Sir Bertram Stevens Drive, the Princes Highway, the M1 Princes Motorway and Lawrence Hargrave Drive and are expected to add up to 30 minutes additional travel time. Access on foot to Otford Lookout and walking tracks to the beaches in the Royal National Park will not be affected by the closure.

• 12 FEB: The speed limit on Illawarra Highway at Albion Park is set to be reduced next week. A Transport for NSW spokesperson said, from Monday 19 February, the speed limit will drop from 60 km/h to 50 km/h for a one kilometre stretch along the highway. “The review of this speed zone was initiated in response to a request from the community to provide a safer road environment for pedestrians,” the spokesperson said. “For the five year period up to July 2023 there were 13 crashes on this stretch of road, including a fatal crash involving a pedestrian and three serious injury crashes. Reducing the speed limit to 50 km/h is appropriate for the road environment and will improve the safety of all road users.”

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