Riders along Swanston Street will continue to encounter Metro Tunnel building works throughout autumn.
Riders heading north will face interruption as the A’Beckett Street shed is dismantled, requiring the footpath and some of the road to be blocked off for safety reasons.
While most of the A’Beckett shed will be disassembled from the rear of the structure, the cladding on then Swanston Street frontage is being removed from the footpath.
Fortunately for riders, the project is keeping the northbound bike lane open each working day from 3pm to 8pm, which should ease the peak period rush.
Less fortuitously, the blockage for northbound riders at the Franklin Street intersection remains, requiring riders to walk their bike across the street at the pedestrian crossing.
These works could be wrapped up by the end of the month, reopening this precinct to northbound riders.
However, work then gets underway which will close the southbound bike lane. More information will be provided closer to the starting date.
With students returning for the 2025 academic year at RMIT University, this precinct has become very crowded, and people on bikes should be on guard for students darting across the road without warning.
At the Town Hall station precinct, the southbound bike lane continues to be closed at the City Square as the final remnants of cranes are removed and the bluestone footpath replaced.
Works to reinstate the Collins Street–Swanston Street intersection are underway, resulting in periodic closures of Collins Street.
There will also be intense activity at the Flinders Square site as work ramps up to build the entrance to Town Hall Station.
Over at Federation Square the acoustic shed is now demolished and new traffic arrangements are in place due to the placement of a crane in Flinders Street.
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