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Craigieburn Bypass, Melbourne, completed 2005.
Team: Peter Tonkin, Neil Mackenzie, Heidi Pronk, Kon Vourtzoumis, Roger O'Sullivan, Richard Healey-Finlay. Landscape Architecture: Taylor Cullity Lethlean. Artist: Robert Owen.
Awards ::
2002 First Prize and Commission
2006 RAIA Victoria Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design
2006 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Award for Excellence in Design
2006 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Award for Excellence in Landscape Architecture 2005 Public Domain Award, Cement and Concrete Association
Project Description:
Sound walls and road furniture for a new 32km stretch of freeway linking the Hume Highway with the Melbourne Ring Road were designed in association with Landscape Architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean. Artist and sculptor Robert Owen was also creatively involved in the concept design and modelling of all the elements.
The project was designed to be experienced at a freeway speed of 110km per hour. It includes three series of sculptural sound walls, a pedestrian bridge and a set of design parameters for road bridges, crash barriers and retaining structures.
The main series of walls by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer total over 2 kilometres in length, and are made from facetted austenitic steel sheets modelled in simple concave and convex folds to produce a gently undulating wave of steel floating on a recessed dark concrete base.
A second series of walls by Taylor Cullity Lethlean, are translucent and transparent, preserving light and views from residential areas. These are edge-lit acrylic, sandblasted with a digital pattern and overlaid with coloured precast concrete blades.
The third series, by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, build on the existing landform with dramatic earth sculpting. The use of gabions and heavily planted earth berms achieve the required sound control.
A major element of the work was a new pedestrian bridge, which was designed as a gateway to the distant city of Melbourne, visible on the horizon. The bridge, a complex curve in plan and elevation, is a tubular steel truss faced with the same austenitic steel as the main sound walls, which at this point appear to leap over the road in a gesture of welcome or farewell.
Sam Houston Tollway on a clear day. I only take the tollway when necessary, since the toll is $1.25 for approximately 4 miles of travel
Freeway Coaches L71UNG a 1994 Volvo B6-50 Alexander Dash B41F at their Pinxton Depot on 17 November 2013.
New to Ambassador Travel, also operated for Mulleys and Simonds.
Freeway LIG2152 Volvo B12B Sunsundegui C53Ft coach in Alfreton on school contract on 19 December 2017.
Ex Lewis Coaches of Coventry, new as FJ55YCL with Dunn Line
Aerial photography of Honolulu and Oahu island
The John A. Burns Freeway as it crosses through Ko'olau Mountains
A Van Hool TDX21 Altano hurrying back north along the M6 in Cheshire
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03/2013 - new as YJ13 GXB to Eavesway; Ashton-in-Makerfield (GM).
12/2021 - re-registered EV09 WAY.
03/2023 - reverted to YJ13 GXB.
07/2023 - passed to Skill; Nottingham (NG).
07/2023 - re-registered PUJ 925.
From Appendix 6: A Report to the San Francisco-State Joint Freeway Study on the Urban Design Aspects Associated with the Panhandle and Golden Gate Freeways, Mario J. Ciampi and Associates, John Carl Warnecke and Associates, February, 1966.
Seattle's waterfront is a visual treat: Puget Sound filled with boats of all kinds, the mighty Olympic Mountains in the distance, and walkways and piers from which to enjoy it all.
The soundtrack of Seattle's waterfront is a different story. As you look out on those peaceful scenes, you hear the ceaseless din of freeway traffic. Puget Sound meets Urban Noise.
Like many American cities, Seattle built an elevated freeway along its waterfront in the 1950s. The Alaskan Way Viaduct is a double-decked highway that walls off much of the waterfront from the rest of downtown, and destroys the soundscape of the rest.
And it's a deathtrap. The freeway's construction is similar to that of some infamous freeways in California: the Cypress Street Viaduct in Oakland, and the Embarcardro Freeway in San Francisco. The latter was severly damaged in the 1989 earthquake, and has since been torn down; the former collapsed during the earthquake, crushing 42 people in their cars.
Like San Francisco, Seattle is in earthquake country, and the Alaskan Way Viaduct is considered the most dangerous place to be when the shaking starts.
Plans are afoot to replace or rebuild the viaduct, but it won't be easy or inexpensive. A massive tunnel is one option being considered; a larger, sturdier elevated freeway is another.
It will take years for Seattle to undo the bad planning decisions of the 1950s, and in the meantime, Seattlites wanting to enjoy their waterfront must endure the roar of traffic on a roadway that, one way or another, is going to come down someday.
B84 races through Como with an afternoon peak service from Perth to Mandurah in the fading light of the afternoon.
Freeway OJZ7021 a 1990 Volvo Citybus B10M-50 Alexander RV H47/37F at Heanor Market Place on football duties on 25 August 2018.
Originally G622OTV as Trent Buses 622. Ex Redline Travel of Preston, previously Centrebus 812.
At 2887 feet long, the Papago Freeway Tunnel (better known as the Deck Park Tunnel) seen here was the final section of Interstate 10 to be completed nationwide. It is located just north of downtown Phoenix, Arizona.
SYLMAR - Just after 9:30 AM on November 5, 2012 the Los Angeles Fire Department quickly responded to a two vehicle traffic collision on the NB 5 Fy x Roxford St. At least one person was injured and transported to a local hospital. © Photo by Adam VanGerpen