Roads in the Albion Park Rail area will see hundreds of extra truck movements a day while work on the Croome Road Sporting Complex is carried out.
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The work to reconfigure the sports fields is the first stage in the construction of the Albion Park Rail Bypass.
At present, the fields sit on the route of the bypass.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian turned the first sod on the project with Parliamentary Secretary for the Illawarra Gareth Ward and South Coast MP Shelley Hancock in late March.
A traffic and access management plan put together by Roads and Maritime Services says there will be an increase in heavy vehicles during a four-month period of construction.
The increase is tipped to be more than 300 trucks a day for that four-month period.
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“Material haulage will result in an estimated 340 heavy vehicle movements per day on average during the construction period,” the management plan stated.
“The timing of vehicle activity on these haulage routes will avoid vehicle movements in the peak traffic periods to minimise impacts on traffic operations.”
The management plan states these 340 truck movements every day “is unlikely to result in a significant increase in daily traffic movements” as it equated to less than a 3 per cent increase.
The plan proposes two routes that could see the increased truck movements.
Route one is via Illawarra Highway, Terry Street, Ashburton Drive and Croome Road while the second route will see the truck use the East-West Link and Croome Road.
The plan also identifies the Princes Highway as a road that will be “directly impacted” by increased traffic.