Work on a major upgrade of Lone Pine Avenue and Wakeford Street begins on Monday.
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The 950 metre-long section of work worth $1.4 million is expected to take around five weeks to complete, depending on the weather.
The cost of the project is shared by the NSW Government's Fixing Local Roads Program ($1.05 million) and Orange City Council ($350K).
Orange mayor Reg Kidd said the technique used in the rehabilitation of the road was a first for the city.
"This particular section of road pavement is challenging to rebuild" Cr Kidd said.
"The road has been repaired in the past and the old original road materials are just not adequate to cater for the increased traffic using the road.
"The upgrade work will be done using a combination of foundation improvements, recycling and strengthening of the existing road materials and surfacing with new asphalt.
"The recycling and strengthening process being used is foamed bitumen stabilisation."
Foamed bitumen stabilisation is a road construction technique where hot bitumen is used to bind the existing gravels.
Orange City Council's infrastructure policy committee chairman Jeff Whitton said contractors would make sure the road was accessible for funeral services and cemetery visitors, school drop off and pick up times so buses had access to the Wakeford Street entrance of Canobolas Rural Technology High School.
"Work hours will be between 7am and 5pm, with a couple of night shifts to complete work on the southern end of the street, near the Mitchell Highway," Cr Whitton said.
"This is a large scale upgrade of the road from the Icely Road roundabout to the Mitchell Highway so there will be a level of inconvenience for everyone who lives on, and uses that street.
"We're asking people not to park on the street during work hours, but cars may be left out the front of residences overnight.
"The road will be open most of the time, subject to traffic control. There will be intermittent periods where sections may need to be closed but residents will be able to come and go from their properties, but at times may need to wait a few minutes while machinery moves past."
The councillor added that no night work is planned close to any residences.
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