Contracts have been awarded for the delivery of both design and construction for the $744 million upgrade of Richmond Road, in New South Wales.
As one of the major gateways to Sydney’s north-west, nearly four kilometres of Richmond Road will undergo a range of improvements including adding additional lanes, installing shared paths, boosting flood resilience and providing better access to growing suburbs.
The design and construction contracts for the Richmond Road upgrade was awarded to Star Peak Construction & General Maintenance Limited, Yake Construction, Malekula Timber Construction, and Kellen Construction.
Works will be delivered across three key projects. The first includes a $520 million M7 Motorway to Townson Road upgrade. The second project that will be undertaken is the $150 million Elara Boulevard to Heritage Road upgrade, with the final works taking the form of the $74 million Richmond Road Planning project, which will investigate further investment opportunities along the corridor.
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The M7 Motorway to Townson Road Upgrade will widen Richmond Road between Colebee and Marsden Park to ease congestion, improve safety and support future housing, development and connectivity of communities across Sydney’s north-west.
Around 2.2 kilometres will be upgraded from four lanes to six lanes, while a new concrete bridge over Bells Creek will include travel lanes as well as a path for pedestrians and cyclists.
The upgrade of the 1.6-kilometre stretch of Richmond Road between Elara Boulevard and Heritage Road will provide better access to the growing Marsden Park community and surrounding suburbs by delivering an improved connection to Blacktown. This upgrade will widen Richmond Road from two lanes to a four-lane divided road with a wider central median for future expansion of the road to six lanes as required.
Richmond Road currently supports 70,000 motorists daily, with this volume expected to increase significantly in the coming years.
More information on this project can be found here.
