Shovels hit the dirt in long-awaited Albion Park Rail Bypass

Glen Humphries
Updated February 4 2019 - 10:35pm, first published 1:30pm
Dig it: Fulton Hogan's Andrew McRae, Shellharbour councillor Kellie Marsh, Tullimbar Community Group's Shane Bitschkat, RMS director Sam Knight and Kiama MP Gareth Ward at the Albion Park Rail sod-turning. Picture: Sylvia Liber
Dig it: Fulton Hogan's Andrew McRae, Shellharbour councillor Kellie Marsh, Tullimbar Community Group's Shane Bitschkat, RMS director Sam Knight and Kiama MP Gareth Ward at the Albion Park Rail sod-turning. Picture: Sylvia Liber

A sod-turning on Monday marked the ceremonial start to a project that will bypass the only sets of traffic lights between Heathcote and Bomaderry.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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