Fourth Annual Rail Suppliers Forum

3-4 July 2013

Moreton Bay Rail Link Project

Project Director – Mango Murphy

From promise 100 years to delivery

Regional Location - South East Queensland –

Moreton Bay Region

Delivery of the Moreton Bay Rail Link is supported

by all three levels of government.

The $1.147 billion required for the project is jointly funded:

• Commonwealth Government ($742 million)

• Queensland Government ($300 million) + land

• Moreton Bay Regional Council ($105 million).

Lawnton to Petrie - $168 million from Queensland Government.

Funding

• Provide a more reliable transport network

• Increase connections between key activity centres within the region

• Provide better access to major employment centres such as the CBD

• Reduce traffic congestion

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

• Support sustainable development and population growth in the Moreton Bay region

• Support the continuing development of new employment areas.

Project Objectives

The Moreton Bay Rail Link will:

Project Need

• Third largest local government area

in Australia

• Currently more than 350,000 people

• Population set to exceed 500,000 by

2031

• More than half of the people leave

daily and 83% use private vehicle for

journey

• Significant congestion on major

roads.

Scope signed off by Project owner:

a) A double track passenger railway from the North Coast line at Petrie and Kippa-Ring

b) Six new rail station precincts at Kallangur, Murrumba Downs, Mango Hill, Mango Hill

East, Rothwell and Kippa-Ring

c) A train stabling facility at Kippa-Ring for 10 six car train sets with the ability to

expand the facility to 15 seven car sets in the future

d) Grade separated junction where the Moreton Bay Rail Link connects to the existing

North Coast line at Petrie

e) Connections and modifications to the existing road network including works to

achieve grade separation of all roads from the railway, connections to stations and

local streets and connection of Duffield Road to Dohles Rocks Road, Kallangur

f) A Shared path from Anzac Ave, Kippa-Ring to Gympie Road, Petrie

Modified dECI for Moreton Bay Rail Link Project

Selection Panel Recommendations – Stage 1A

The scope for Stage 1B consists of the following mandatory items:-

Mark Cridland

Deputy Director General

(Policy, planning & Investment)

Department of Transport and Main Roads

Kinsellas Road – Early Works Project

• Cost:- $16 million

• Early works package of the

MBRL

• Scope:- A 3 span bridge, 1km of

road, a new roundabout, and

minor upgrade to the Anzac

Avenue intersection

• 100,000m3 of earth cut from the

rail corridor

• A grade separated crossing

between the new road and the

future rail line

Lawnton to Petrie Project - $168m

Grade Separated

connection to

MBRL

New car park for

200 cars

New dual track bridge over

North Pine River

3rd Track from Lawnton to

Petrie

Station works including new

side and island platform

Raise and extension of

Gympie Rd Overbridge

Timetable and Deliverables:

4 Proponents

• Thiess Pty Ltd

• Salini Australia Pty Ltd, Bielby Holdings Pty Ltd, Winslow Contractors Joint Venture

• Abigroup Contractors Pty Ltd

• John Holland Group and Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd

2 Tenderers

• Thiess Pty Ltd

• Salini Australia Pty Ltd, Bielby Holdings Pty Ltd, Winslow Contractors Joint Venture

Stage 1A Submission

After 8 weeks

• Procurement process is a modification of

the well understood dual Early Contractor

Involvement methodology.

• Provides a competitive environment for

developing the designs and price.

• Ensures the client is very informed client

by the continual interaction with the

tenderers in the procurement phase.

• Delivery – Fixed price lump sum. Design

and Construct contract in a relationship

framework.

Effectiveness of the procurement strategy

Station

Precincts

Petrie Station

Amcor Mill

Anzac Ave

Gympie Rd

Caboolture Line

: Petrie Connection

: Kallangur Station

Kallangur Station

: Murrumba Downs Station

Murrumba Downs Station

Bruce Hwy

Mango Hill Station

Westfield

Halpine Dr

Mango Hill Tavern

Bruce Hwy

: Mango Hill Station

: Kinsellas Road Station

Kinsellas Road Station

: Rothwell Station

Rothwell Station

Hays Inlet

Bunnings

Saltwater Creek

: Kippa-Ring Station

Kippa-Ring Station

Peninsula Fair

Hays Inlet

Station Concept

Designs

Station Design

The aim for station design is to deliver:

• Aesthetically pleasing public transport buildings and interfaces that are right sized for

the community context

• A street presence without being a grand architectural statement

• Structures that are functional and relevant to the station classification

• Structures that respond to all accessibility and CEPTED requirements

• An inviting and easy to navigate space for public transport users

• Greenfield site

• Habitat for significant flora and fauna

including koalas and kangaroos

• Skirts environmentally significant areas

such as RAMSAR wetlands and declared

fish habitat

• Areas of „endangered‟ and „of concern‟

regional ecosystems, freshwater wetlands

and marine plants within proposed

footprint.

Environment

Offsets

National Park

• Anzac Avenue and Rothwell Station access road partially over National Park

• 5:1 with comparable quality/productive land, promising prospects but haven‟t

approached land holder

VMA

• Vegetation communities at various levels of protection, need to find existing

community and enhance/protect

Fisheries

• Mangroves, salt marshes and salt couch, plant or protect existing land,

productivity calculation

Koala Habitat Trees

• 23,000 KHT to be cleared, replace at 5:1

• 115,000 planted over 140ha and maintained to non-juvenile koala habitat tree

(NJKHT), likely to be 4 years

Objectives of koala monitoring and tagging program

• Protect koalas from harm during vegetation clearing and construction works

• Inform rail design w.r.t. barrier crossings, important habitat etc.

• “Offset” impacts by:

Managing koala health – disease treatment

Chlamydia vaccine – first field trial

• Capture all koalas in koala search areas (program began 25/3/13- 56 days so far) • Perform veterinary examination • Radio-tag • Telemetric monitoring

Conventional radio-telemetry Remote monitoring using bio-telemetry tags

• Treat and manage disease • Chlamydia vaccine trial

Lexi Methods

Koala Capture

• Flagging (climb)

• Flagging (from ground)

• Koala trap

Tagging and Monitoring

Koala Trap

Moreton Bay Rail Link 2010 Reference Design Statistics

• 12.6km of double track rail from Petrie to Kippa Ring

• Grade separated rail connection to the Caboolture Line

• 13 bridge structures to provide grade separation of road and rail including over the Bruce Highway

• Six new rail stations including

bus interchanges and bike storage

• 2450 off-street carparks

• 520,000 cum excavation

• 604,000 cum fill

• Establish over 100,000 Koala Habitat trees

• Stabling (including train crew facilities) for 10 six car trains in the vicinity of Kippa-Ring station

• 3m wide concrete Shared Path and connecting links for cyclists and pedestrians along the length of the corridor