Vue site Kendall Street, November 2017 |
Due to the big trucks parked along the verge of the upper
Kendall Street site, this site, I couldn’t get a photo of the whole of it. It was all
systems go on the site, with work going on at the front to stabilise the
forecourt and driveway area.
Stabilising the verge & forecourt, November 2017 |
Right there on the right hand edge of this photo you can see the
guy directing traffic at this site and his stop sign. There were extra vehicles
on this narrow little street, with the two sites active now, and cars and
ambulances couldn’t see around the big trucks. So there was a row of traffic
cones down the middle of the road and people directing traffic, holding
walkie-talkies and signs to let first one lot of traffic and then another.
I parked in a carpark on Mann Street and walked to Kendall
Street to take my photos. Parking on the street was impossible and there eight building sites within 3 minutes’
drive of each other in the Presidents Hill area so parking on the street
anywhere in that area is a lost cause.
A closer look at the stabilisation, November 2017 |
A closer look at the reason for the stop signs and traffic
cones. The forecourt and driveway areas need to be stabilised and so those big
cartage trucks have to come and go at regular intervals to take away the spoil.
And on such a small site, the road itself is the only place they can park to be
loaded up with spoil by the scoops of the earthmovers.
Elbows and backs on the Icon site, November 2017 |
Lots of elbows and backs at the northern end of the site, where
most of the activity was when I was there. And an indication of how much
activity this site is now seeing daily could be judged by the two porta-loos
(portable toilets) side by side in the background where there was previously
only one.
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