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Bakewell Underpass Project
The State Government is replacing the 80-year old Bakewell Bridge on Henley Beach Road with an underpass, after considering information collected from the community, as well as technical and economic factors.
The consortium, McConnell Dowell and Connell Wagner, has been engaged to design and build the underpass. The project team has developed and assessed a number of options to find the most suitable solution that best balances community, technical and economic elements.
Construction is well underway on the underpass which is due to be open by the end of 2007.
The underpass will consist of:
- two traffic lanes in each direction separated by a median
- on-road bicycle lanes (1.8 metres) on each side of the road
- a wide shared use path (3.15 metres wide) on the southern side at a higher level than the road. This path is designed to cater for pedestrians, people with a disability and recreational cyclists, and is connected to a network of paths around the area.
Two bridges will span the underpass carrying road traffic along James Congdon Drive and East Terrace, and rail traffic on the TransAdelaide metropolitan tracks and the national Australian Rail Track Corporation freight track. Both bridges will also cater for pedestrian and cyclist traffic.
The gap between the two bridges will allow light and fresh air into the underpass and, without a central supporting wall, there will be one clear open span across the full underpass width.
A pump station, at the lowest point of the underpass, will dispose of the stormwater.
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Fri 21st Nov 08
