INSIDE: FARRER ROAD FINAL STAGE BEGINS + MORGAN ST PRECINCT
Council News CITY OF WAGGA WAGGA
Issue No: 293
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FIRST PRINTED SATURDAY 2 MAY 2020
Council staff help ensure food security for city’s vulnerable Wagga Wagga City Council is working with local community service agencies to help ensure food security for those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information on how to access assistance, visit: wagga.nsw.gov.au/coronavirus
HEARTS OF GOLD: Lynne Graham (left), Carevan’s Project Manager, has been responsible for helping Council staff settle into their new roles. Liz Cox (right), Executive Assistant to the Mayor, has been working to support Carevan, the lead agency coordinating the preparation and delivery of meals.
Active Travel project rolling along New sections in the construction of the city’s Active Travel Cycleway were given a green light by Wagga Wagga City Council this week.
the CBD and other key destinations, such as Charles Sturt University and Kapooka. The current package of works will deliver asphalt concrete pathways complete with line markings that are predominantly separated from traffic on shared pathways or on-road separated cycle paths. Council’s Manager Project Delivery Council is engaging Fulton Hogan Rupesh Shah said the staged works are Industries Pty Ltd to complete 26 expected to be finished in September, kilometres of work within the project, weather permitting, and will then comprising approximately 15km of mean 30km of the ATP is completed. new asphalt shared path and 11km “This stage of works in the project of asphalt overlay on existing shared will complete more than half of the path. cycleway,” Mr Shah. The Active Travel Plan (ATP) project The 26km of work comprises of will provide a 45km cycleway network asphalt concrete being laid in the linking residential parts of the city with following links:
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Red Hill Link (1.65km), Kooringal Link (6.19km), Bourke Link (0.45km), Centre Link (3.2km), Wollundry Link (0.21km), University Link (8.9km) and Kapooka Link (5.4km). Mr Shah said works remaining to be rolled out in separate packages include line marking and signage on existing service roads, concrete paths, roundabout treatment, road intersections, rail crossings, Kapooka Foot Bridge, lighting and two end of trip facilities. He said the links awaiting finalisation of design due to third party approvals were the Morgan Link and Forest Hill Link. The project has a scheduled finish date of July next year.
Could your project, event or great idea for the community do with a funding boost? Funding available for the below categories: • Recreational Facilities and Rural Halls • Community Programs and Projects
• Small Business • Local Heritage • Natural Environment Applications close 4pm, Monday 25 May 2020
To find out more: 1300 292 442 | wagga.nsw.gov.au/grants