Kangy Angy rail maintenance facility: Bridge under construction
Motorists driving along busy Enterprise Drive at Kangy Angy could be forgiven for thinking the giant bridge taking shape there is new major link to the nearby M1. It’s not.
The enormous scale of the new intercity fleet maintenance facility at Kangy Angy is becoming increasingly obvious with a huge new bridge looming beside Enterprise Drive.
It looks more like an on-ramp to the motorway, but the bridge is just an access road to the new $265 million facility.
The bridge is understood to be worth at least $50 million, and could well be the State’s most expensive ‘driveway’.
A spokesman for Transport NSW said the bridge and associated roundabout and other roadwork on Enterprise Drive were expected to be completed within the months.
“This will ease traffic and provide residents with flood-free access to and from Enterprise Drive once the project is finished,” the spokesman said.
The spokesman said major construction for the facility was progressing well with around three quarters of the structural steel for the main facility building now in place and construction of the site’s auxiliary buildings is underway.
“Elsewhere on site earthworks, service installations and construction of foundations for noise barriers and others structures continues to gain momentum,” the spokesman said.
“The solid progress of construction is also helping to boost local employment and business opportunities for the Central Coast with well over 300 jobs, including apprenticeships, created for local workers.”
The maintenance facility in Kangy Angy will start operating in 2020 to service and maintain 554 train carriages, which are being delivered by the NSW Government as part of the New Intercity Fleet project.
The new fleet will provide more reliable and comfortable journeys for customers travelling to and from the Central Coast, Newcastle, Blue Mountains and South Coast.
The controversial project was vehemently opposed by local residents whose quiet rural lifestyle has been completely changed.
Ross Ferrier who lives nearby said most residents were resigned to the facility on their doorstep and were not surprised at the huge size of the bridge.
“I hate to say it but we told you so — it’s exactly what we said would happen, Mr Ferrier said.
“But, if they deliver what they promised which is they will make this disappear in the landscaping and it won’t be very noisy, then we have no alternative but to trust them,” he said.
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