Eastern Freeway (Melbourne)

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Victoria

The Eastern Freeway is an urban freeway in the eastern part of Melbourne in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It combines the Alexandra Parade in Collingwood with the Eastlink in Donvale. He is one of the main routes for the Berufsverkehrin Melbourne and is expanded from six to zehnspurig. The respective entirely right lanes are reserved for peak hours for vehicles with two or more occupants.

History

During construction the beginning of the 1970s was the Eastern Freeway as Freeway Corridor F19 reserveiert and should be connected to the then new Tullamarine Freeway and Maroondah Highway at the. Protests of local residents attended but that the freeway ended at the Hoddle Street. Initially, the new freeway was numbered as F83, later received the designation State Road 83 ( S83 ). Today he wears the number M3. The freeway was completed in four construction phases from 1977 to 2008:

  • Step 1: From the Hoddle Street to Bulleen Road; opened in December 1977
  • Step 2: From the Bulleen Road to Doncaster Road; opened on June 3, 1982
  • Step 3: From the Doncaster Road to Springvale Road; opened in December 1997
  • Step 4: From the Springvale Road to the Frankston Freeway ( Eastlink = )

Originally, the Freeway was to end at the intersection of Maroondah Highway and Mount Dandenong Road. He should create the connection to the originally planned Eastern Ring Road (see Ring Road (Melbourne ) ) and the last stage of this freeway was also the Eastlink including the bypass of Ringwood, which was opened in July 2008.

The first stage of the freeways came from Hoddle Street to Bulleen Road met with much resistance as it passes through the Yarra Bend Park, who was designated as a National Park, ran straight. The first two steps should the construction of the railway line to Doncaster, which should run in the middle of Bulleen Road permit. The piers for the bridges had to be placed outside the extra-wide median strip.

It was also reserved a strip of land for the construction of the railway to East Doncaster, but this project was dropped in the 1980s and the land was sold. In recent years, has yet to build through increased congestion and the growing recognition of the traffic problems in Melbourne, the pressure on the state government on the part of the Local Councils of Melbourne, Yarra and Manningham and from the general public, this railway line still massively increased. The final stage of freeways, which was completed in 2008, connected the freeway with the bypass Ringwood (S62 ), the Monash Freeway (M1 ) and the Frankston Freeway (S11).

Course

The Eastern Freeway begins at the junction with the Hoddle Street as the eastern continuation of Alexandra Parade ( in the documents of VicRoads Eastern Highway as designated ). There, the eastbound carriageway is fünfspurig, while the road towards the west has only two tracks. Three more tracks head west go east to the intersection ( you turn towards Hoddle Street from ). When Chandler Highway in Yarra Bend the freeway narrows to eight lanes.

Just before he reached the Bulleen Road, reduces the width of the freeway to six lanes and the central strip is only a concrete barrier. Between the Tram Road and Blackburn Road freeway is four lanes for a short distance back, then six lanes to Springvale Road. There follows on the Eastlink (M3). Before the construction of this freeway 2008, the Eastern Freeway the Freeway einizige was in Melbourne, at the joining no further freeway.

Expansion plans

There has been much speculation that the Eastern Freeway should be connected at the Hoddle Street through a tunnel with the City Link ( Western Link ) and the Western Ring Road.

On 1 March 2007, the Labor government presented a study to connect the major freeways that had been created by the expert Rod Eddington. However, this was very criticized because they did not contain enough information about the traffic flows. The government announced that the plan should be implemented in later stages. However, only the intention to build a small western section was confirmed.

Speed restrictions

On the whole freeway to a speed restriction to 100 km / h There are no fixed radars to monitor, but the police patroliert regularly over the entire freeway. VicRoads cameras installed for monitoring the flow of traffic.

Intersections and connections

Map

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  • Eastern Freeway. Google Maps.
  • Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. p. 41
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