Project Updates
11 Sep 2024
Construction progressing
While rain has slowed progress in the past week, the upgrade is making good progress.
Works completed so far include:
- installation of a major drainage culvert has been installed on the realigned section of road near the Olympic Highway
- earthworks on sections of the existing road
- stabilisation of the entire 3.3-kilometre unsealed section of the road.
Read more in Construction advances on Dunns Road upgrade.
Project Information
Dunns Road is approximately five kilometres long, of which 2.8 kilometres is currently sealed and 2.2. kilometres is unsealed.
The road began as an unsealed 'goat track' that serviced local farmland. Over time, and as the surrounding area was developed, Dunns Road became a popular short cut for people heading to southern Wagga Wagga.
Unfortunately the original road was narrow, undulating and unsealed. As the traffic volumes increased, accidents began occurring at a disproportionate rate to the traffic volume using the road.
A 2018 traffic count confirmed that 331 vehicles use the road daily at the western end of the existing sub divisional development. Once the upgrade is completed, it is anticipated that traffic volumes are likely to increase to 1,000 vehicles per day.
The project has three key components:
- upgrade of the Olympic Highway/ Dunns Road intersection
- sealing the unsealed section of Dunns Road
- construction of a roundabout at the Holbrook Road/ Dunns Road intersection.
The project is funded by the Australian Government ($5.8 million) and Wagga Wagga City Council ($2.5 million).
Once completed, the benefits of the project include:
- Provide a safe and more direct route to the southern portion of the Wagga Wagga residential area, to the airport and to major sporting and recreational facilities from the Olympic Highway.
- The proposed construction of a roundabout at the Holbrook Road and Dunns Road intersection, along with the reduced speed limit to 60 km per hour on both Dunns Road and Lloyd Road urban sections only), will increase safety at the intersection, especially on approach to Holbrook Road.
- Improve traffic flow to the outlying townships of Uranquinty, The Rock and the Australian Army base at Kapooka.
- Ensure all road users have a safe and direct route from the Olympic Highway to the southern suburbs of Wagga Wagga and to the Mater Dei schools via Lloyd Road.
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