The intersection project is an $8.8 million upgrade funded state and federally through the heavy vehicle safety and productivity program and will be directed and built by Roads and Maritime Services who have given and expected completion date of 2020.

The plans submitted to RMS include the new addition of a right hand turn for the intersection.

Council director of operations Phil King said "the design has been submitted, and the fee estimate has been submitted as well." 

"We have about an eight week leeway time so once they have accepted the fee estimate we will go ahead with the construction."

"They are (now) putting right turns in there as well, they had one option to go without right turn lanes but it would have been too small, so on all four legs their will be a right turning lane," Mr King said.

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Before RMS lay their hands on the intersection however, Mr King said council will be removing their water infrastructure from the intersection followed by other groups moving high pressure gas, fiber optics, and water channel utilities.

"Griffith is full of roadworks, you won't be able to get around without running into some of the roadwork, in about three or four years the traffic network will change completely," Mr King said.

"To get the heavy vehicles away from Willandra Avenue is going to be massive, they're driving past residents, past schools, past City Park, past the camping and the willows." 

For the southern industrial link Mr King said council is expecting to finish Bromley Road by August and will start on the Lavender Bend intersection on Thorne Road around Christmas.

"It's a local road project, we're upgrading it so the capital investment in that road will get it up to a higher standard for heavy vehicles, there is the possibility that it might become a state road," Mr King said. 

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