Tullamarine Freeway
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Victoria
The Tullamarine Freeway is an urban freeway in the northwestern part of Melbourne in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It combines the Sunbury Road at Melbourne Airport in Tullamarine with the City Link ( Western Link ) in Pascoe Vale (Melbourne ).
History
The Tullamarine Freeway is one of the oldest freeways in Melbourne. The first section between the airport and Melbourne Essendon Airport was opened to traffic on April 2, 1968. He should be in Tullamarine and parts of the Bulla Road replaced Lancefield Road ( heute. Melrose Drive) in Essendon and serve as a feeder road to Melbourne 's new airport. A connection to the Calder Highway west of the airport has also been built. From Essendon was a new connection to the east, according to Pascoe Vale, created and further south along the Moonee Ponds Creek to Mount Alexander Road in Flemington. This link should take on a main street in the city center of Melbourne from the Mount Alexander Road the role.
The freeway was originally numbered along the entire route of Tullamarine up to Flemington as F81. The short connection to the Calder Highway was designated as Calder Freeway ( F90 ). The freeway was mentioned plan of 1969 as a Freeway Corridor F14 in Melbourne Transportation.
After the completion of freeways of the heavy traffic from the Hume Highway to the city of Melbourne Pascoe Vale on the Road was routed there. In the 1990s, saw the completion of the Western Ring Road for a significant increase in traffic. It was not until the completion of the City Link ( Western Link ) and the widening of the freeway to eight lanes defused the situation. The developed route section is a toll road.
The Skybus Super Shuttle ( shuttle bus to the airport from the city center of ) passes over the freeway and 2002 directed the state government with a AU $ 3-10 million to fund plan to improve this service one after a study showed that a rail link to the airport would not be sufficiently utilized and therefore would not be economical.
The junction with the Calder Freeway in mid- 2007 - earlier than expected - completed. She had been substantially rebuilt in order to avoid traffic congestion. Also, a new bridge and northern access road to the airport, Essendon was built by Melrose Drive, which allows the residents of the northern suburbs a better access to the airport Essendon.
Course
Today, the Tullamarine Freeway officially begins at the Pascoe Vale Road, because the portion lying south of it since the end of 1990 part of the City Link ( Western Link ) is. The six-lane road with median strip runs along the southern boundary of the airport Essendon and past the direct factroy outlets complex, the former Melbourne Airport.
At the junction with the Calder Freeway to the Tullamarine Freeway bends to the north and is four lanes with a concrete barrier (later grass and bushes ) in the middle. The Melrose Drive accompanies the freeway on his left. The heavy traffic from the Hume Freeway, the Western Ring Road zufährt about me, when combined traffic to and from the airport often for traffic congestion. After the junction with the Western Ring Road, the traffic conditions improve slightly. At the exit to Melbourne Airport ends of the freeway.