22-07-2025
More than $3.5 million worth of safety improvements are on the way for the Hume Highway at Breadalbane.
Work will include the start of strengthening repair work northbound on Collector Bridge, with $2 million provided by the NSW Government, which also delivered improvements southbound last year.
A further $1.6 million provided under the Towards Zero Safer Roads Program will fund the installation and replacement of a semi-rigid safety barrier system with a new flexible system to better protect motorists.
Transport for NSW Regional Director South Cassandra Ffrench said both sets of work will greatly improve safety and reliability for motorists on this section of the
Hume Highway.
“The improved flexible safety barriers will accommodate the increased average height in cars and help reduce the likelihood and severity of crashes,” Ms Ffrench said.
“The bridge work will include concrete repairs and fixing steel to the bridge deck to improve its strength and increase its longevity.”
Work to install the nine kilometres of safety barriers, consisting of five kilometres southbound and four kilometres northbound, will be carried out on the Hume Highway just north of Breadalbane Road from Monday 21 July, Monday to Friday between 7am and 5pm, weather permitting.
A southbound single lane closure and reduced speed of 40 km/h will be in place for the safety of workers and motorists until Thursday 31 July.
From Friday 1 August work will be carried out on the northbound deck of Collector Bridge to preserve the bridge and maintain the current load capacity. Alongside this
work, all remaining safety barriers will be installed.
During this work, northbound traffic will be diverted onto the southbound lanes under contra flow traffic control, and a reduced speed limit of 80 km/h will be in place until early October, weather permitting.
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