Merrimac station construction update

Major construction

Throughout January and February 2025, major construction activities will continue within the eastern and western railway reserves and Gooding Drive.

Works will be undertaken between 7:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Saturday, and 8:00am to 1:00pm Sunday (where required).

Works will include:

• Activities to prepare for retaining wall construction and platform enabling works, including bored piling, screw piling, sheet piling, pile caps, installation and cutting of fill and concrete form pours
• Ongoing ground treatment and strengthening activities including mass soil mixing and removal and replacement works
• Ongoing works on public utilities, overhead wire transfers, shotcrete, soil nailing and conduit trenching
• Ongoing surveying, sewer activities and environmental monitoring
• Ongoing construction of environmental management controls including sedimentation fencing and drainage channels
• Ongoing minor vegetation clearing in accordance with all relevant approvals, with fauna spotter / catchers in attendance
• Ongoing earthworks activities, including stockpiling of materials, excavation, heavy vehicle movements and completion of pre-load program
• Ongoing Gooding Drive roadworks

Rail Corridor Works

Rail corridor works (including night works), from Gooding Drive overpass to Red Ash Court, are planned to occur outside normal working hours during scheduled track closures, pending construction and weather permitting conditions.

Works will include screw piling, pile caps excavation and concrete pouring, overhead wire transfers and horizontal directional drilling. Activities are planned on the following dates:

• 6:00am to 6:00pm daily on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 February 2025

Gooding Drive / Station Access Road roadworks

Roadworks will continue on Gooding Drive in both directions (weather and program permitting). Works will be undertaken between 7:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Saturday, and 8:00am to 1:00pm Sunday (where required).

Ongoing ground treatment and strengthening activities, including mass soil mixing and removal and replacement works, will continue at the station entrance on Gooding Drive and in the eastern and western rail reserves. Following this, construction of the retaining wall, which underpins the station access road, will commence from early 2025.

Intermittent night works, including oversized plant equipment deliveries to site, will occur on Gooding Drive and site entrances from early January 2025. These activities can only be undertaken at night due to safety and traffic management requirements.

Residents located in proximity to these activities will receive direct reminders prior to works commencing.

Work areas and vehicle movements

What to expect

• Construction activities may generate increased levels of heavy vehicles, noise, vibration and dust in the area. Every effort will be made to keep these to a minimum
• Construction activity and heavy vehicle movements will continue throughout January and February 2025 to transport materials to the site via Gooding Drive eastbound and westbound
• Ongoing temporary changes to pedestrian access and movements around Gooding Drive (both directions) and Entry Drive
• Ongoing intermittent parking changes on local roads
• Intermittent daily single lane closures, speed reductions and short-term delays on Gooding Drive in both directions, between Ghilgai Road and Bourton Road
• Traffic management and road signage will be in place to assist and direct motorists
• Workers and light vehicles accessing site via Entry Drive, Crelga Court, Nisbet Place and Willunga Place.
• Intermittent use of mobile lighting towers and safety lighting within the rail reserve and Gooding Drive (both directions). Every effort will be made to position light sources away from properties
• The use of machinery including trucks (including water and fuel carts), graders, excavators, vac trucks, cranes, chainsaws, drill rigs, mass soil mixing rig, grout plant, earth moving machinery, piling rigs, rollers, chainsaws, boom lifts and hand-held tools.

Changes to the way you travel

Construction of new stations, including Merrimac, on the Gold Coast line can mean changes to your travel.

We encourage you to consider your travel options, plan ahead and allow extra travel time by using the links below:

• Download the MyTransLink app
• Visit the TransLink website
• Call 13 12 30

If you want to know more, all of this information is available in PDF form:

• Works Notice – Merrimac station construction update – January/Februay 2025