mango murphy, dept of transport and main roads qld: moreton bay rail link

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Moreton Bay Rail Link

Queensland Transport Infrastructure Summit

22-23 October 2013

Moreton Bay Rail Project

Project Director – Mango Murphy

From promise 100 years to delivery

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Agenda

1. Project history.

2. Tender phase.

3. Project Drive Through.

4. Update on Koalas.

5. What happens next?

6. Questions?

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• Provide a more reliable transport network

• Increase connections between key activity centres within the region

• Provide better access to major employment centres such as the CBD

• Reduce traffic congestion

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

• Support sustainable development and population growth in the Moreton Bay region

• Support the continuing development of new employment areas.

Project Objectives

The Moreton Bay Rail Link will:

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Project Need

• Third largest local government area

in Australia

• Currently more than 350,000 people

• Population set to exceed 500,000 by

2031

• More than half of the people leave

daily and 83% use private vehicle for

journey

• Significant congestion on major

roads.

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Delivery of the Moreton Bay Rail Link is supported by all three levels of government.

The $1.147 billion required for the project is jointly funded:

- Federal Government ($742 million).

- Queensland Government ($300 million).

- Moreton Bay Regional Council ($105 million).

Lawnton to Petrie fully funded by the State Government - $168 million.

Funding

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Kinsellas Road – Early Works Project

• Cost:- $16 million

• Early works package of the

MBRL

• Scope:- A 3 span bridge, 1km of

road, a new roundabout, and

minor upgrade to the Anzac

Avenue intersection

• 100,000m3 of earth cut from the

rail corridor

• A grade separated crossing

between the new road and the

future rail line

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Lawnton to Petrie Project - $168m

Grade Separated

connection to

MBRL

New car park for

200 cars

New dual track bridge over

North Pine River

3rd Track from Lawnton to

Petrie

Station works including new

side and island platform

Raise and extension of

Gympie Rd Overbridge

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Procurement timeframes

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Contract award event – 1 August 2013

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Grade separation at Petrie

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View project plans

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Koala update

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Objectives of koala monitoring and tagging program

• Protect koalas from harm during vegetation clearing and construction works.

• Inform rail design w.r.t. barrier crossings, important habitat etc.

• “Offset” impacts by:

- Managing koala health – disease treatment.

- Chlamydia vaccine – first field trial.

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• Capture all koalas in koala search areas

(program started 25/3/13 – over 90 koalas captured)

• Perform veterinary examination. • Radio-tag. • Telemetric monitoring:

- Conventional radio-telemetry. - Remote monitoring using bio-

telemetry tags.

• Treat and manage disease. • Chlamydia vaccine trial.

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Methods

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Koala capture

• Flagging (climb).

• Flagging (from ground).

• Koala trap.

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Tagging and monitoring

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Koala trap

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Koala update

• Updated GIS showing home ranges and interaction with the rail corridor.

• Also shows direction of movement and level of activity over time.

• Informing fauna underpass location.

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• Some interesting behaviour – koalas crossing the Pine River and Hays inlet (apparently swimming)

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What happens next?

• Continue to refine the design.

• Start early works including

further survey and

geotechnical works and utility

relocations.

• Site compound establishment.

• Inform the community about

the design changes.

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Moreton Bay Rail Link Project facts and figures

• 12.6km of double track rail from Petrie to Kippa Ring

• Grade separated rail connection to the Caboolture Line

• 13 bridge structures to provide grade separation of road and rail including over the Bruce Highway

• Six new rail stations including

bus interchanges and bike storage

• 2450 off-street carparks

• 520,000 cum excavation

• 604,000 cum fill

• Establish over 100,000 Koala Habitat trees

• Stabling (including train crew facilities) for 10 six car trains in the vicinity of Kippa-Ring station

• 3m wide concrete Shared Path and connecting links for cyclists and pedestrians along the length of the corridor

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QUESTIONS?

mango murphy, dept of transport and main roads qld: moreton bay rail link

Business

rail corridor

koala trap

koala update

project

provide

design

petrie

koalas