The Moonee Ponds Creek Trail in West Melbourne will be closed between Arden Street and Dynon Road for 10 days in mid January.
Detours will be in place but are awkward due to the location of the worksite.
Although regular commuters will have experienced similar detours, the holiday season is likely to draw more occasional riders who should take care as they navigate unfamiliar territory.
The trail will be closed 24/7 between Tuesday 14 January 2025 and Saturday 25 January.
Southbound riders will be required to turn off at the Arden Street ramp and follow the recommended detour via Arden Street, Laurens Street past the new Arden Station, then past North Melbourne Station and along Adderley Street to La Trobe Street. From there riders can reach Docklands Esplanade.
If heading out of the city riders can travel along the creek trail towards Dynon Road as usual, but will be able to use the new shared path bridge over the Moonee Ponds Creek, which has just opened, and take the Dynon Road shared path as far as Lloyd Street. From here, they can then take the Lloyd Street bike lane to Arden Street where they rejoin the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail to head further north.
The works are to reinstate a section of the trail adjacent to the Metro Tunnel intake substation, which riders would recognise as the new building beside the trail, behind the coloured fence.
During works to build the new substation and connect electricity to the site, a heavy-duty vehicle track was formed alongside the trail.
Now Metro Tunnel is removing the asphalt and existing line marking that was installed across this section of the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail, pouring new concrete and painting the new line marking.
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