Work to demolish three homes next to Hobart’s southern outlet for a new ‘bus improvement lane’ is set to begin this summer.
The demolition is part of a three-year Southern Projects program that aims to ‘improve bus services and traffic flow’ on Macquarie and Davey Streets.
Construction is expected on initial preparation works for the transit lane to start by the end of the year, with different stages of the project taking place over the next few years.
Infrastructure and Transport Minister Michael Ferguson says the project will add new lane capacity and “improve peak hour traffic flow through Hobart’s CBD”.
“We are doing this work first to minimise traffic impacts when the major construction on the additional Transit Lane starts,” Ferguson said.
The project will involve the removal of parking spaces, changes to parking on the two streets, extended clearways, cycling improvements and the construction of a transit lane connector.
Early plans for the extra lane involved acquiring up to 17 properties, but revised plans reduced this number to 3.
“In the coming weeks, teams will remove the three vacant Dynnyrne properties that were [voluntarily] acquired for the project.”
“This work will include some night-time lane closures and should not impact traffic during the day.”
