The one-year mark of major construction has been reached on the Singleton Bypass project in New South Wales, a new eight-kilometre alignment that will help to remove what is one of the Hunter Region’s longest standing bottlenecks.
Once complete, the bypass will remove around 15,000 vehicles a day from Singleton’s CBD, bypass five sets of traffic lights, cut congestion, reduce freight delays and deliver safer, faster and more reliable journeys for the 26,000 motorists who travel on this section of the New England Highway each day.
In the last 12 months, construction has commenced on all six bridges that form part of the project, which includes the 1.6-kilometre Hunter Floodplain bridge, which is 80 per cent complete.
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Key structures such as the new Hunter River and Gowrie bridges are now supporting haulage trucks, reducing construction traffic for the local community.
The last year has also seen more than 500,000 square metres of earthworks placed, as well as peak works getting underway on drainage, utilities relocation, pavement, noise walls and safety screens.
The design and construction contract for the project was awarded to Acciona in late 2023, ahead of major works commencing in early September 2024.
The project is expected to open to traffic in late 2026.
