Moorooduc Highway

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Victoria

The Moorooduc Highway is a road connecting the south of the Australian state of Victoria. It connects the Frankston Freeway in Frankston with the southern part of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway at Mount Martha. It is a four-to six-lane dual carriageway. Together with the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, it forms the main thoroughfare from Melbourne to Mornington Peninsula.

History

The highway originally started at the junction with the Frankston Flinders Road, Frankston South and tied the Nepean Highway ( B110 ) in Moorooduc South at. In the 1970s, he was south of the Sages Road widened and served as an alternative to then not built bypass of Frankston. In the 1990s, then the Mornington Peninsula Freeway was connected to the ( renamed ) Moorooduc Highway.

Course

The Moorooduc Highway serves as a road connection without freeway standard between the two parts of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway (S11 ) and begins at the southern end of the Frankston Freeway (S11 ) ( which creates the connection to the northern section of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway). It runs along the east side of Frankston Commercial Centre as a six-lane road with height same terminals and a traffic light intersection with Frankston Flinders Road. From this traffic light intersection of Moorooduc Highway was narrower and only has four lanes. The road leads to the town of Mornington, just off Highway, past and ends at the northern end of the southern route section of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway (S11).

The Moorooduc Highway is considered a particularly dangerous section of road on which many road casualties due to speeding and uncontrolled intersections. Recently we have installed at the intersections with the Bentons Road, the Eramosa Road and Bungower Road roundabouts. The confluence of the Sages Road now has traffic lights after there happened a particularly large and serious and even fatal accidents. South of Sumner Road in Baxter is the speed limit 100 km / h

Frankston bypass

Once the Peninsula Link will be opened ( plan: early 2013 ), it should take the through traffic, while the local traffic to run over the Moorooduc Highway. This will ensure that the through traffic no longer has to use the known risk of accumulation roundabouts at Mornington and Frankston at intersections. This will significantly improve the flow of traffic.

Major intersections and connections

Source

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