The Cross River Rail project team wants to cart 20 truckloads of dirt each hour through the CBD.Credit:Facebook
“They appear to be working on a ‘just-in-time’ engineering basis,” infrastructure chairman David McLachlan told the council meeting on Tuesday.
The project consortium,led by CIMIC,recently asked for a number of recent changes,including amendments allowing trucks to haul spoil 24 hours a day on Ipswich Road.
Cr McLachlan said two recent requests angered the council because one affected the CBD and the “thousands of residents who now live there” and another request could add to local flooding near Moorooka.
“That means from 10 trucks per hour from each of the inner-city stations[at Roma and Albert streets] would haul spoil through the city on Sundays,” he said.
“From the two sites that could be an extra 20 trucks per hour,or an extra 190 trucks per day.”
Cr McLachlan said the council had “strongly objected” to the Coordinator-General,who acts as a development umpire on projects of state significance.
He said the council had a long-standing position prohibiting spoil being carted through the CBD on Sundays.