Calder Freeway

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Victoria

The Calder Freeway is a highway in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It connects the Tullamarine Freeway in Niddrie (Melbourne ) with the Calder Highway in Ravenswood South. He replaces parts of the Calder Highway. Initially the Calder Freeway was only a short continuation of the Tullamarine Freeway, which already passed in Keilor, a northwest suburb of Melbourne, in the Calder Highway. Step by step he but was extended and now has Ravenwood South reached. The Calder Highway leads to Bendigo. Even the last, not the freeway belonging section of Highway was widened to four lanes and opened to traffic on April 20, 2009.

History

The Calder Highway was named after the road engineer William Calder, of the Country Roads Board ( predecessor of VicRoads ) from 1913 to 1928 board.

The highway originally received the designation national road 79 ( N79 ). With the conversion of street numbering in Victoria on the alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, the numbering was changed to A79 for most of the route. Only the already existing short stretch of motorway in Melbourne received the numbering M79.

Originally, the two-lane Calder Highway began at the end of Keilor Road Niddrie in. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, this road was built along with the Tullamarine Freeway to Freeway standard, ended in Keilor East, and ran from there as Calder Highway on. Beginning of the 1980s, the freeway was extended to Keilor. But it was only in the 1990s began with the further expansion of the Calder Highway to Bendigo to four lanes.

The Calder Highway between Melton Highway and Western Ring Road is listed in 1969 as a plan of Freeway Corridor F4 in Melbourne Transportation, which runs in Templestowe on the Tullamarine Freeway addition to Bell Street.

Course

In Ravenswood South of the Calder Highway ( A79 ) becomes the Calder Freeway with four tracks to the edge of metropolitan Melbourne and then six lanes. He handles most of the cities, led by the old Calder Highway. Through the freeway replaced, but still existing sections of the Calder Highway received the numbered C791 to C794, or within Melbourne ( strangely enough ) still N79.

At its north-western end of the freeway runs parallel with the A300 to the south of Harcourt, where the A300 south-west towards Ballarat and Geelong continues the Midland Highway.

Cities, the bypassed freeway, but still can be reached from it:

  • Harcourt
  • Elphinstone
  • Taradale
  • Malmsbury
  • Kyneton
  • Woodend
  • Macedon
  • Gisborne
  • Diggers Rest

From the junction with Green Gully Road, ' Keilor '' leads the Freeway east to Tullamarine Freeway (S40 ) and the city center of Melbourne and continue to bear the old numbering N79 as State Road 40 also the numbering S40.

The freeway ends at the newly updated intersection with the Tullamarine Freeway, which connects the Melbourne airport with the city center of Melbourne and the City Link (M1 ) continues.

Extension

Between Kyneton and Ravenswood

The expansion of the Calder Highway is jointly funded by the Australian Federal Government and the Government of Victoria. The cost is estimated at 404 million AU $. Between Melbourne and Bendigo already made the four-lane expansion - to Ravenswood South on Freeway - standard - and was opened to traffic on April 20, 2009.

The expansion of the Calder Highway between Kyneton and Ravenswood was divided into two sections: Kyneton to Faraday and Faraday to Ravenswood. The latter section is still under construction but is also open to traffic.

Intersection Calder Highway and Calder Alternative Route

The expansion of the intersection of the Calder Freeway and Calder Highway in the old Ravenswood is proposed and will be financed with AusLink 2 (2009-2014 ).

Between the Western Ring Road and Melton Highway

VicRoads has completed the widening of the Calder Freeway from the Western Ring Road to Melton Highway. The highway was widened from four to cal tracks. The maximum speed limit was reduced from 100 km / h to 80 km / h. Confusingly, applies the speed limit heading north from Keilor Park Drive to the service center in Calder Park, while it applies to the south by the service center to the bridge over the Green Gully Road. In October 2010, we announced that the speed limit as a result of a long process during off peak hours ( 8.00 clock - 17.00 clock ) would be raised again to 100 km / hr. Along the freeway but are 30 variable speed limit zones are installed.

Proposed improvements in the safety and the capacity to be financed through AusLink 2 (2009-2014 ).

Junction with Kings Road

VicRoads will extend the Kings Road to the Calder Freeway at Taylors Lakes as part of a 62 million AU $ expensive project to reduce the level crossings between Sunshine Avenue and Calder Park Drive. This includes a bridge over the Kings Road, a cloverleaf connection to the freeway and the closure of the intersection with Robertson Road.

Intersections and connections

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  • Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. S. 41, 42, 45
Keilor, Victoria Keilor East, Victoria Midland Highway (Victoria) CityLink Castlemaine (Victoria) Pyrenees Highway, Victoria Heathcote (Victoria) Lancefield, Victoria St. Albans (Victoria) Seymour (Victoria) Adelaide Essendon, Victoria
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