Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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Victoria
The Mornington Peninsula Freeway is a highway in the southern Australian state of Victoria. He is currently still consists of two parts. The northern part connects the Springvale Road in Chelsea Heights with the Frankston Freeway and EastLink in Carrum Downs. The southern part connects the Moorooduc Highway in Moorooduc South with the Boneo Road Rosebud. As of 2013, closing the gap to be made, so that a continuous Freeway results of the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne to the tip of the Mornington Peninsula.
History
The Freeway was the first time in Melbourne Transportation Plan 1969 designated as Freeway Corridor F6. In the 1970s, the Wells Road bypass to Frankston Freeway was expanded. The continued construction of freeways, including a bypass of Frankston was planned, but in 1982 there was a change of government. The new state government did not want a freeway along the coast, but instead operate the expansion of Wells Road towards Braeside.
The southern section of the freeway, which was already called ' Mornington Peninsula Freeway ' (or Dromana Freeway), between the Nepean Highway Dromana and Jetty Road Rosebud had already been completed in 1975. The section between Dromana and Moorooduc Moorooduc South to Highway was built in the mid -1990s.
Course
The Mornington Peninsula Freeway is not yet completed. VicRoads said for decades that the traffic on this route was not dense enough to justify a bypass road for Frankston, which would represent the middle section of freeways. The two parts of the freeways are today connected by a highway with each other, which leads through the center of Frankston.
The northern branch begins at the Springvale Road ( S40) in Chelsea Heights and leads 7 km south to the mouth of the Eastlink (M3 ) at Carrum Downs.
The southern, about 20 km long section branches off in Moorooduc Moorooduc South from Highway ( S11), crosses the Nepean Highway ( B110 ) at Mornington and again north of Dromana. Then he happened Dromana and ends in the south of Rosebud at the Boneo Road ( C777 ). This southern part of the freeways leads through vineyards and gardens and vobei at stud.
The Mornington Peninsula Freeway (including the Moorooduc Freeway) runs largely parallel to the Nepean Highway and to relieve this.
Further expansion
The bypass of Frankston ( Peninsula Link ) is currently under construction and should be completed in 2013. It bypasses the city in a wide arc to the east, which fits onto the confluence of the East Link, performs Baxter and Moorooduc Moorooduc Highway and on (S11 ) ends.
Furthermore, an extension of the freeway north through Braeside is planned until after Dingley Village. At the local Centre Dandenong Road, the future connection to the well planned Dingley Highway to occur.
In the south, the expansion to Freeway standard is planned. So shall the Boneo Road tethered south of Rosebud height free and the freeway towards the west, past a Rye, be continued until after Blairgowrie. At the local Melbourne Road it will be connected to the Nepean Highway ( B110 ).
Intersections and connections
Northern section
Southern section
Source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. S. 41, 42, 43
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