Westernport Highway

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States:

Victoria

The Western Port Highway is a highway in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It connects the South Gippsland Freeway and the South Gippsland Highway in Dandenong north of Hastings with the Frankston Flinders Road. He makes a connection from the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne with the west coast of Western Port.

History

The Western Port Highway was built in the 1960s as a two-lane road under the name of Lyndhurst Road and was extended to a four-lane highway with a median strip in the 1990s between the South Gippsland Freeway and Cranbourne Frankston Road gradually, because the freight traffic dramatically increased.

VicRoads is currently planning for this route expansion on a freeway standard with height- free terminals of the glass Cocks Road, Thompsons Road ( S6), of Hall Road and the Cranbourne Frankston Road ( S4).

Course

The highway begins outside of Lyndhurst, where the old South Gippsland Highway ( S180) meets the new South Gippsland Freeway ( M420 ). The Western Port Highway is seamlessly connected to the South Gippsland Freeway. It runs as a four-lane dual carriageway heading south, cross the railway line to Cranbourne, a traffic light intersection and five roundabouts.

At the Cranbourne Frankston Road, the highway is two lanes and is referred to as A780. He runs through a roundabout and finally ends at the Frankston Flinders Road ( C777 ), 2 km north of Hastings.

Street numbering

• From the South Gippsland Freeway to the Cranbourne Frankston Road
• Of the Cranbourne Frankston Frankston Flinders Road to Road

Major intersections and connections

Source

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