A new road will open up access to the Murray Bridge Green shopping centre from Adelaide Road if council plans go ahead.
The council plans to spend $130,000 demolishing a house at 28 Adelaide Road and extending Verdun Road past the Standen Street T-junction.
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The plan would create a new intersection at one of the main road's busiest points, opposite McDonald's, with Subway on one corner and a currently vacant building on the other.
Design work is already complete, and council infrastructure and assets general manager Simon Bradley was due to begin consulting "key stakeholders" shortly after the council's November meeting.
$130,000 has been allocated towards the demolition of the house and upgrading that site.
- Simon Bradley
The information was provided as part of an update to councillors on the council's financial position for the first quarter of 2014-15.
Corporate services general manager Anthony Brown said it was too early to read much into the council's $792,000 operating surplus for the quarter, a $736,000 improvement on expectations.
It was mostly coincidental, he said: the council had received some money early and was behind schedule in its spending.
"It's too early to say whether there will be savings or whether it’s just timing," he said.
Cr Jerry Wilson questioned why only six per cent of the council's budget for key projects had been spent by September 30.
Chief executive officer Michael Sedgman acknowledged the council had had a "slow start" but said it would still deliver on its promises.
"We do expect to ramp up progress on those key projects," he said.
"I don't think there are any projects we don't think we can pick up the pace."
Although progress on new infrastructure projects had been slow, Mr Brown said, the council's works staff had been kept busy with maintenence jobs in the meantime.
The council expected to spend $11.8 million on infrastructure and $1.6 million on key projects in 2014-15.
