Monash Freeway

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Victoria

The Monash Freeway is an urban freeway in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It connects the East Link in Kooyong with the eastern part of the Princes Freeway at Berwick, and thus the center of Melbourne with the western Gippsland.

History

The Monash Freeway was born from the merger of two originally separate freeways, of which connected F81 the Warrigal Road in Chadstone with the Princes Highway in Eumemmerring, and the South Eastern Freeway ( F80 ), the Punt Road in Richmond and Toorak Road in Hawthorne East association.

Mulgrave Freeway

The construction of the Mulgrave Freeway was begun in 1970 and completed in 1973. He had intersections with the Heatherton Road and Stud Road. Later in the 1970s and early 1980s, he was gradually extended westward to Forster Road and got additional intersections with the Blackburn Road, Ferntree Gully Road, Wellington Road and Jacksons Road, and then, beginning mid - 1990s, the Police Road. Finally, Huntingdale Road and Warrigal Road in Chadstone were connected. At the end of the Hallam Freeway was extended at an intersection with the Princes Highway to the south on the old route of the South Gippsland Highway ( A440 ) to the junction with the Dandenong Hastings Road. Today this is the Western Port Highway ( M780 ) in Lyndhurst. This stretch was originally Eumemmerring Freeway, but was later to South Gippsland Freeway ( M420 ). The designation of F81 Mulgrave Highway in 1988 abandoned when the South Eastern Arterial Road was opened.

Interestingly, the Tullamarine Freeway was then numbered as F81. This was due to the Melbourne Transportation Plan in 1969, which provided two interconnected freeways - the Mulgrave Freeway in East Malvern and the Tullamrine Freeway at Flemington - both by St Kilda. The plan was never carried out, but the two freeways have since joined by the extension of the West Gate Freeway and City Link project.

South Eastern Freeway

The first piece of the South Eastern Freeway was completed in the mid- 1960s and joined Burnley to the Olympic Park on Harcourt Parade, which conducted the traffic on the Punt Road at the Hoddle Bridge. A transfer practice the Punt Road soon followed and ended at the Anderson Street and the Morell Bridge with a feeder without a central reservation to Swan Street Bridge and Batman Avenue 800 meters. Later the Freeway to the east of Burnley, extend under the McRobertson Bridge and through the Yarra River to Toorak Road. They had a shuttle without median strip, which was derived to heavy traffic to, ' Tooronga Road ''. Part of this road still exists today. These works were completed in 1971. Originally the street was numbered in the 1960s as a state road 80 ( S80 ), as F80 to 1988, until the South Eastern Arterial Road was completed later.

South Eastern Arterial Link

The remaining gap between the end of the South Eastern Freeway to the Tooruk Road and Burke Road and the beginning of the Mulgrave Freeway at the Warrigal Road frustrated motorists for many years, since they had to increasingly rely on shuttle service, to bridge the gap. The mid- 1980s suggested the state government before a connecting road, before eventually agreeing to a motorway link between the two freeways. The construction was finished in 1988 and the new road - and later the whole associated Freeway - were 'South Eastern Arterial ' baptized. The new section of road got the number R1, where the old Princes Highway ( Dandenong Road) was designated as ALT -1.

This project was very controversial already in the construction phase and beyond. To save costs, only one intersection on Freeway standard was developed under the High Street in Glen Iris, all other intersections, traffic lights were of equal height and because the route through densely populated area were low speed limits. This led to frequent traffic congestion, often kilometers long, which in turn spurred the anger and frustration of motorists. They called the new road also Southeastern Carpark (German: south-east parking lot).

After a change of government and a lot of self-representation of the politicians more money but was inserted into the connecting road, so that an underpass for the Toorak / Burke Road and the Tooronga Road, as well as an overpass for the Warrigal Road have been retrofitted. There was also noise and additional tracks and the entire freeway was re- named South Eastern Freeway, until a new name change to today's Monash Freeway ( after Sir John Monash ( 1865-1931 ), an Australian civil engineer and commander of the Australian Army during the First World War) made ​​him. The new Freeway drew a lot of more traffic and the bottleneck at the Swan Street Bridge made ​​sure that the snakes were just longer. A part of the Monash Freeway (from the Tooruk Road to Punt Road) was the end of the 1990s, integrated into the City Link project and connected with tunnels to the Westgate Freeway, so that the inner city can be without crossing over.

Hallam bypass

Before the construction of this bypass the gentle curve desFreeway reduced at Hallam - end, which was to Gippsland Freeway, the roadway width from six to only four tracks. This was during rush hour is a notorious bottleneck, especially for the transport of town at the intersection of the Princes Highway me outside of Dandenong. The bypass finally bypassed this place and hence the problem.

With the opening of the bypass Hallam Freeway was extended in late 2003 after 3 years of construction by 7.5 miles and now joined the Monash Freeway in Hallam with the Princes Freeway at Berwick. The section of road was opened to traffic six months before the planned Fertigstellugnstermin and cost AU $ 80 million less than budgeted because you. Upon an important connection that the South Gippsland Freeway at the Hallam bypass Eumemmerring, renounced However, this waiver caused avoidable in neighboring streets.

Extension

2007, the government announced a major expansion of the Monash Freeway extension through the lanes of the Glenferrie Road to Heatherson Road. Up to 160,000 vehicles use the highway per day, leading to traffic jams during rush hours. The expansion began in late 2007 and was completed in late 2009.

History and road conditions

The Monash Freeway begins at the southern end of the City Link (M1 ) at the Toorak Road. Here it is eight lanes, where the carriageways very close to each other and are separated by concrete barriers. This section has a street lighting. It runs through the suburbs of Malvern, Glen Iris and Malvern East.

After the Warrigal Road, the route of the freeway, which now has a wide green median strip and guard rails expands. The street lighting is omitted. The Freeway runs through the suburbs of Chadstone, Mount Waverley, Mulgrave, Dandenong, Hallam and Narre Warren. There he goes to the Princes Freeway. The Hallam bypass, the newest part of the freeway is widened to four lanes.

Major intersections and connections

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. Page 41 43