South Gippsland Freeway

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Victoria

The South Gippsland Freeway is a short portion of the highway in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It connects the Monash Freeway at Doveton ( Dandenong ) with the Western Port Highway and the South Gippsland Highway in Lyndhurst ( Dandenong ). He makes the connection between Melbourne and the objectives in the southeast of the state, such as the Mornington Peninsula and the southern Gippsland.

History

This freeway was originally remainder of a plan amendment to the Mulgrave Freeway (now Monash Freeway (M1 ) ) 1970 The Mulgrave Freeway described a wide curve to the south, crossed the Eumemmerring Creek in Doveton and officially ended on Princes Highway (A1 ) just southeast of Dandenong. This connection was later rescheduled into a veritable underpass and the Freeway unofficially another kilometer to the south, under the Princes Highway through and along the eastern border of the former Holden factory of Melbourne, extended. It ended at the intersection of the South Gippsland Highway ( M420 ) and the Pound Road.

Some years later, this piece of highway has been revised due to the intensive use and extended towards Lyndhurst for a further kilometer. The old route of the South Gippsland Highway was expanded to four lanes and brought to freeway standard. A new route of the South Gippsland Highway was about a kilometer west of the freeway, the Pound Road were extended several hundred meters to the west with a new bridge over the Freeway and Dandenong got connections to the freeway. The intersection of the new South Gippsland Highway, Freeway and the Lyndhurst Road ( now in Hastings Dandenong Road renamed) was rearranged so that the freeway seamlessly continued to run over an overpass over the new South Gippsland Highway to the south. Those who wanted to continue to use the highway to Cranbourne or south-east, just had to take the exit.

The section of freeway between the Eumemmerring Creek and the Princes Highway was originally referred to as the Mulgrave Freeway, but there were already at that time plans to extend the freeway to the southeast towards Beaconsfield. Therefore, the beginning of the 1980s, the section of the Mulgrave Freeway south of Eumemmerring Creek in 'South Gippsland Freeway ' was renamed what these 1 km extended to the north.

Until 1988, the Mulgrave Freeway was (at that time in South Eastern Arterial Road renamed) gradually extended and so connected that a freeway connection for Dandenong revealed. Thus the South East Arterial Road - and thus also the South Gippsland Highway - more frequented. But it did little to improve the situation on the freeway itself, especially at the section in Doveton, where the volume of traffic increased because many drivers wanted to drive onto the Princes Highway east of Dandenong. When the entire South Eastern Arterial Road (later M1) has been designated as State Road 1 (S1), even where this section was affected. The rest of the road south of the Princes Highway to Hastings Dandenong Road has been designated as State Road 65 ( S65). The bridge over the intersection at Lyndhurst was expanded beginning of the 1990s, four lanes without a stir, which in turn the volume of traffic, especially by articulated trucks increased. The Dandenong Hastings Road was again renamed the Western Port Highway to carry the larger cargo volumes towards Western Port bill and be able to expand the road to four lanes later.

Some years later, the state road signs were removed off the freeway because Victoria introduced the alphanumeric name of the road system. The freeway was now numbered as M420, which was also true for the South Gippsland Highway southeast of the intersection in Lyndhurst. The Western Port Highway was designated the A780. The northern section was still reported as M1, to the South Eastern Arterial Road was renamed the Monash Freeway and 2003 to the southeast along the planned route ( Hallam Bypass) towards Berwick was extended. Thereafter, the northern stretch also received the numbering M420.

In 2010 they built the connector on the Pound Road; there was a four-lane bridge over the freeway with traffic lights, connections to the freeway. This work was completed in 2011.

Intersections and connections

Source

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

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