EastLink (Melbourne)
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Victoria
The East Link is a urban motorway in Melbourne in the south of the Australian state of Victoria. It connects the Eastern Freeway at Donvale through the eastern and southern suburbs of the city with the Frankston Freeway at Carrum Downs. Usage is subject to toll. It is part of the ring road system of Melbourne.
- 2.1 intersections and connections
- 2.2 Dandenong Bypass
History
In Melbourne Transportation Plan 1969, finds the proposed road as a freeway corridor F35.
About this motorway link was ever discussed again: one side resulted in the benefits of a complete beltway around Melbourne, the other the expected related environmental damage. In October 1999, the Bracks Government announced that the plans for the highway - which had not promised in the election campaign, the Labor government - were deleted. Instead, a railway line to be built by Rowville and the tram line 75 extended by Knox. None of this, however, was realized. In August 2000, the same government announced that they are now trying to obtain federal grants for the construction of the motorway link. But the road had to be classified as " a road of national importance ," although it should be no part of the national highway network. The complete reversal of the government has been strongly criticized by organizations such as the Public Transport Users Association ( Passenger association of public transport), because it meant that now again the railway project was canceled after Rowville. 2001 ranged Paul Mees, a graduate of the University of Melbourne, an action against Transport Minister Peter Batchelor and VicRoads for an environmental offense to the Bundesgerichtshof. The authorities should be prohibited " any action in the future to build the Scorseby Freeway or the Eastern Ring Road initiate ". He stated that the highway disturb migratory birds, eradicate plant species and destroy wetlands would. The highway should be part of a continuing plan of a ring road to Greensborough. Due to the pending proceedings, the beltway was removed from the draft Strategy Paper.
2003, the Southern and Eastern Integrated Transport Authority ( SEITA ) was established by the State Government of Victoria. You should monitor the project for the government and carry out tendering and contracting.
In October 2004, the SEITA awarded the contract to design, build and operate the EastLink to Connect East, a company that was listed in November 2004 in the ASX. ConnectEast in turn commissioned Thiess John Holland, a joint venture of two large construction companies with the detailed planning and construction of East Link.
ConnectEast is for 39 years responsible for the operation of the road. The construction of the EastLink began in March 2005 and on 29 June 2008, the road was opened.
After the opening of the new connection on 29 June 2008, the volume of traffic fell to the neighboring streets Stud Road, Springvale Road and Blackburn Road 30 to 40 %, but the volume of traffic on the Eastern Highway increased by 5% at the junction with the Burke Road and by 1 to 2% of the Hoddle Street in downtown. Average 270 686 vehicles drive on this road every day and since 23 July 2008, the tolls are levied. In the first week of tolling the daily traffic fell to 133 722 vehicles. This was within the expected 40 to 50% decrease, but 1/3 lower than the predicted numbers. The average toll per trip is AU $ 3.10, more than the predicted AU $ 2.91.
In the first six months of operation of EastLink reported a loss of nearly AU $ 93 million in 2010, the road had already paid for, even though the expected volume of traffic experts had to be revised downward as.
Name history
Over the years there have been many names for the project: Eastern Ring Road, Scoresby Freeway, Scoresby bypass and Mitcham Frankston Freeway.
On 23 March 2005, aldo with the start of construction, was the then Prime Minister of Victoria, Steve Bracks, announced that the new road should be called Eastlink.
On 27 February 2008 it was announced that the port of the Eastlink to the Monash Freeway Tom Wills Interchange - after the inventor of Australian Football - wird.Am named March 24, 2008 was Tim Pallas announced that the two parallel tunnels Melba and Mullum Mullum should be called.
Course
The Eastlink begins at the eastern end of the Eastern Freeway (M3 ) at the Springvale Road in Nunawading and crosses under tunnels in the suburb of Ringwood and the Mullum Mullum Creek. Then, it performs about 40 km south towards Frankston, where he leads through the suburbs Wantirna, Wantirna South, Scoresby, Rowville, Mulgrave, Dandenong North, Noble Park, Keysborough, Dandenong South, Carrum Downs and Bang Holme. It ends at the northern end of the Frankston Freeway (S11).
Most of the highway is expanded to six lanes, only between Thompson Road and Frankston Freeway, he is only four lanes.
Intersections and connections
Dandenong bypass
A 4.8 km long section of the Dingley Freeway called Dandenong bypass were of ConnectEast and Thiess - John Halland '' as part of the East Link project built .. The bypass was opened on December 9, 2007.