The M1 Princes Motorway will be closed for night works. Photo: Transport for NSW.
A section of the M1 Princes Motorway as well as Picton Road will be closed to all traffic for six nights over the next fortnight.
The closures – for routine maintenance and ongoing work on the Mt Ousley Interchange – were scheduled for earlier this month but were postponed due to wet weather.
Starting this Sunday (22 March), the motorway between Bulli Tops and Memorial Drive will be closed from 8 pm to 4 am. Picton Road will be closed in both directions between the motorway and Almond Street at Wilton from 7:30 pm to 4 am.
The roads will then be closed during the same times on Monday 23 and Wednesday 25 March, then 29 and 30 March and 1 April (weather permitting).
Work will include vegetation maintenance, installing and removing signage, barriers and guardrail, relocating and installing utilities and installing temporary street lighting and drainage.
Construction activities on the interchange project will include removing part of the existing median island, noise wall removal, installing temporary and permanent road kerbing, paving and linemarking and delivery of oversized equipment.
Motorists will be detoured around the work areas. Image: Transport for NSW.
Motorists travelling between Wollongong and Bulli Tops will be detoured via Memorial Drive and Bulli Pass and should allow up to 15 minutes additional travel time.
Those motorists travelling between Wollongong and the Hume Motorway will be detoured via Memorial Drive, Bulli Pass and Appin Road and should allow up to 40 minutes additional travel time.
Light vehicles can also use Wilton Road (Broughton Pass) between Appin Road and Picton Road or the Illawarra Highway (Macquarie Pass).
Local access to Mt Ousley Road between the Princes Highway and Gowan Brae Avenue will be maintained.
Heavy vehicles over 19 metres long and over 50.5 tonnes will not be able to access Bulli Pass and are advised to delay their journey.
Those heavy vehicles will be given a window of access from midnight during the full closures on Monday 23, Wednesday 25, Monday 30 March and Wednesday 1 April.
For more information visit Live Traffic.
