🏗️ Busy Sydney Road Shut After Crane Starts "Leaning Precariously"

Hundreds of workers and nearby residents have been evacuated after a crane was at risk of potentially falling near Pennant Hills Rd.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well it is like that on Pennet Hills Road closed
between Marsden and Jenkins Road in Carlington. This is your
old standing ground. Jim y Rye lives in the vicinity,
gave us a detailed report on what happened yesterday.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, there was lots of traffic which I got stuck
in of.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Course, so the crane didn't come down. But the crane
in that high wind.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
I've got a handout. See there's the picture of the crane.
See those nuts have sheered off in the wind.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
How can I see it's nuts?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Look because it rather than being stand the top bit,
rather than being up, it's down.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's over to a little bit. I'm surprised that this
doesn't happen more often with the amount of cranes in
the city, and we are quite a windy city.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Well, we're in for a polar blast this week, so
I can see why there's still some anxiety around it.
So the crane, the crane is still in a precarious
position that what's going.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
On with hard hats right now thinking what are we
going to do? Because I've got to pull the crane down,
but the wind is such at the moment, I'm proposing
that those.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Supposed I'm just proposing this is because.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
This is what guy, Because see the other cranes. Wouldn't
they use that crane to disassemble that particular crane instead
of getting one of those other big cranes up.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Do they have to get it down with another crane?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, yeah, that's how they put them up. Have you
ever seen them put them up?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, it's extraordinary.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
So you think that the experts haven't thought about using
those existing cranes.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm happy to give some tips if they want.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I'm happy to get down there to have a Mecano set.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm not wearing high visar. I just can't do that.
I think it's anyway gem I rye.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
So you saw what was happening yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, I have another update as well, other than there's traffic.
Other than yeah, that's traffic. But the residents in the
surrounding area they were evacuated to Carlingford Court.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Were they given a free coffee? You think?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I think?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
So is that where they sleep?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
But they sleep in the bed shops and go to
the toilet in the those bathroom shops.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'm bags in the bed in Walton's.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I think Walton's left caring for court some time ago when.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
You lived there.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, okay, thank you Ryan for keeping this up to
and guys, if you want to any more advice from me,
use that crane there.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Use that crane that Jones's got in the picture.