FAQs

The roadworks will apply to the section of Bounty Street, between Molesworth Street east to the end of the Cul De Sac.

Unfortunately, Bounty Street is failing beneath the surface and requires new pavement. This work will improve road conditions and associated safety. Funding has been allocated to pavement replacement, and we are investigating improvements to parking, landscaping and kerb and gutter and drainage works.

The roadworks will fix the deteriorating road formation by digging out some of the old road foundation, then adding and compacting new road base material on top before resealing it. The road surface may receive a final wearing seal some months after the initial bitumen seal has cured. 

As a result of detailed design being undertaken, geotechnical investigations and service utilities located, it is more efficient to raise the road centerline level of Bounty Street a nominal 150mm up to a maximum 200mm. An external consultant has been commissioned to undertake a Flood Impact Statement Assessment, currently being undertaken to determine what/ if any flood impacts will result in this change to the road levels. 

Subject to the results of a flood study, this pavement overlay may change road levels by a maximum of 200mm (20cm) above the existing road centerline level due to additional layers of new road base material. We have advertised this proposed change in road level by installing roadside signs and a notice in our Local Matters publication in accordance with the Roads Act, 1993. 

This Flood Impact Statement Assessment will be made available to landowners in the street. Additional drainage is planned to be installed to manage surface flow and increased road levels will improve accesses on the northern side of Bounty Street. Allowing removal of the existing gutter bridges that are currently in the driveways. 

There will be new kerb and gutter installed on both sides of the street and additional parking available in the center of Bounty Street west of Carrington Street. The parking on the eastern side of Bounty Will remain the same, but with a change to the existing timed parking restriction increased to 4 hours.

In summary:

• Road Pavement and surface: Improve the sub surface pavement layers and a smooth AC Wearing Surface.
• Modify Parking Areas: Modify the Parking areas to maximise available parking areas and provide a safer pedestrian facilities and reduced travel routes across Bounty Street. Increase Accessible Parking spaces.
• Road shoulder widening: Widen the road width by approximately 1m where this is viable. This may require construction of kerb and gutter to provide for road drainage and reduce earthworks.
• Signs and line marking: Install line marked parking bays.
• Install Landscaped Areas: Install landscaped areas Manage roadside vegetation to remove obstacles, improve sight distances and clearances for signage and guideposts.
• Install Pedestrian refuges: Provide a safer area for pedestrians to wait in the center of the road.

Asphalt Concrete Wearing Course (AC-WC) is a type of surface layer used in construction for flexible pavement. It is directly impacted by vehicle tires so that this layer is designed to withstand weather changes, vehicle tire pressure, shear forces and can provide a waterproof layer for the layer underneath.