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Residents of the Brisbane city of Ipswich will soon have a key transport link reinstated with the installation of a temporary pedestrian overpass connecting Herbert and Challinor Streets at Sadliers Crossing.<\/span><\/p>\n Queensland Rail Head for SE Queensland, Neil Backer, said the temporary structure would service the community while plans for a new, permanent bridge were finalised.<\/p>\n Due to its deteriorated condition, the timber bridge over the rail line at Herbert Street in Sadliers Crossing has been closed to motor vehicles.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe understand the importance of this bridge to the Ipswich community”, Backer said.<\/p>\n \u201cThat’s why, even though the bridge is not needed for Queensland Rail’s operations, we have committed to building a new bridge in the same location to reconnect the community and ensure emergency access is maintained.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have listened to community feedback asking for this temporary structure to enable pedestrians to cross the rail corridor while we continue to plan for a permanent bridge.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the temporary structure is in place, Queensland Rail will continue to progress the design for the new, permanent bridge that meets modern standards, including the required accessibility standards.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce complete, this new bridge will provide an active transport corridor for pedestrians, cyclists, and people with mobility devices, and include a single, trafficable lane for vehicle access during an emergency.”<\/p>\n Preliminary works for the temporary\u00a0 Sadliers Crossing overpass and footbridge will begin on Thursday January 18, with the structure to be installed during a planned track closure on Saturday, January 20 and Sunday, January 21.<\/p>\n Final works will be carried out from Monday to Thursday January 22-25, weather and construction conditions permitting, with the temporary pedestrian structure expected to be open at the end of January.<\/p>\n Queensland Rail will continue to keep the community informed of key developments relating to the design for the overpass, new bridge and project progress.<\/p>\n The post Overpass installed while new Sadliers Crossing bridge built<\/a> appeared first on Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Residents of the Brisbane city of Ipswich will soon have a key transport link reinstated with the installation of \u2026 <\/p>\n The post Overpass installed while new Sadliers Crossing bridge built<\/a> appeared first on Rail Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,886,166,163,888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-infrastructure","category-ipswich","category-operations-and-maintenance","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-rail-overpass"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}