With an estimated cost of $30 million, the project has been advanced by the Government’s Jobs and Growth stimulus package announced earlier in 2009.
The realignment runs for 3.1km and involves the construction of a 137m viaduct and a road over rail overbridge. The realignment will pass over the top of the gorge, avoiding the existing narrow, sharp twists and turns of the existing route through the gorge.
Work started in October and is due to be completed in January 2011.
