Monash Freeway
Formerly
Length	34 km
General direction	Northwest-Southeast
From	CityLink, Kooyong, Melbourne
Major suburbs	Chadstone, Mulgrave, Doveton, Narre Warren North
To	Princes Freeway, Berwick, Melbourne
Established	1973
Allocation	M1 (Australia)
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See also: West Gate Freeway, CityLink, and Princes Freeway

Monash Freeway is a freeway linking Melbourne's CBD to its southeastern suburbs and the Gippsland region. West Gate Freeway citybound before the Williamstown Road interchange. ... CityLink is a tolled freeway system in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Princes Freeway M1 links Melbourne to Geelong on the west and Traralgon on the east. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre (also known as The CBD). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Current route and conditions

The freeway officially begins at the southern end of Citylink, at Toorak Road. Here the freeway is four lanes wide before later narrowing to three lanes as traffic merges onto the freeway from Toorak Road. The opposing carriageways of the freeway are relatively near to each other and are separated by a concrete barrier. This section has overhead lighting. This first section of freeway runs through the south-eastern suburbs of Malvern, Victoria, Glen Iris, Victoria and Malvern East. CityLink is a tolled freeway system in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Malvern is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Glen Iris (postcode 3146) is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. ... Malvern East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

After Warrigal Road, the freeway is built within a much wider road reserve, allowing for a wide grass centre median with steel barrier separating the carriageways. This section does not have overhead lighting and varies in width between three and four lanes. This section runs through south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne, including the suburbs Chadstone, Victoria, Mount Waverley, Mulgrave, Victoria, Dandenong, Hallam, Victoria, and finally, Narre Warren, where it becomes the Princes Freeway. The final section, the Hallam Bypass, is the newest stretch of the Monash Freeway, and has two lanes in each carriageway. This article is about the statistical concept. ... Chadstone is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Mount Waverley is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Mulgrave is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Dandenong is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Hallam is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Narre Warren is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Princes Freeway M1 links Melbourne to Geelong on the west and Traralgon on the east. ...

Major upgrade

In 2007, the State Government announced a major upgrade widening the lanes from Glenferrie Road through to Heatherton Road. Prior to this, over 160,000 vehicles per day use this freeway resulting in congestion during peak hours. The upgrade started in late 2007 and is expected to be completed in late 2009. The entire project is known as the Monash-CityLink-West Gate upgrade, and is being carried out by VicRoads and Transurban.^[1] VicRoads (Roads Corporation Victoria) is a subordinate authority which is the States road and traffic authority in Victoria, Australia. ... Transurban is an Australian transnational Corporation which buys toll roads all over the world. ...

Exits and intersections

Monash Freeway
Northbound exits	Distance from CityLink (km)	Distance from Princes Freeway East (km)	Southbound exits
End Monash Freeway continues as CityLink to Melbourne	0	34	Start Monash Freeway from CityLink
Kooyong Toorak Road			Kooyong Toorak Road
Glen Iris Burke Road	2	32	Glen Iris Burke Road
no exit	--	30	Glen Iris High Street
GLEN WAVERLEY RAIL LINE	7	27	GLEN WAVERLEY RAIL LINE
Chadstone Warrigal Road	8	26	Chadstone Warrigal Road
Mount Waverley Huntingdale Road	9	--	no exit
Mount Waverley Forster Road	11	23	Mount Waverley Forster Road
Mount Waverley Blackburn Road	12	22	Mount Waverley Blackburn Road
no exit	--	21	Mulgrave Ferntree Gully Road
Mulgrave Springvale Road	14	--	no exit
Mulgrave Wellington Road	16	18	Mulgrave Wellington Road
no exit	--	16	Mulgrave Jacksons Road
Dandenong North Police Road	20	14	no exit
Dandenong North EastLink			Dandenong North EastLink
Dandenong North Dandenong Valley Highway	22	12	Dandenong North Dandenong Valley Highway
Dandenong North Heatherton Road	23	11	Dandenong North Heatherton Road
Doveton South Gippsland Freeway	26	8	Doveton South Gippsland Freeway
Hallam Belgrave-Hallam Road	28	6	Hallam Belgrave-Hallam Road
no exit	--	5	Narre Warren Ernst Wanke Road
Narre Warren Narre Warren North Road	32	2	Narre Warren Narre Warren North Road
Berwick Princes Highway	34	0	Berwick Princes Highway
Start Monash Freeway continues from Princes Freeway			End Monash Freeway continues as Princes Freeway to Warragul

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History

Monash Freeway (former South Eastern Arterial) viewed from the footbridge at East Malvern Station

The Monash Freeway is an amalgamation of two initially separate freeways: the Mulgrave Freeway (initially designated ) linking Warrigal Road, Chadstone to the Princes Highway in Eumemmerring; and the South Eastern Freeway (initially designated ) linking Punt Road, Richmond and Toorak Road, Hawthorn East. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Chadstone is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Princes Highway is a segment of Australias Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide, via Melbourne. ... This article is about the suburb of Eumemmerring. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Hoddle Highway is an urban highway in Melbourne linking CityLink and the Eastern Freeway. ... Richmond is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Hawthorn East, is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ...

Mulgrave Freeway

Initial construction on the Mulgrave Freeway started in 1970 and was completed in 1973, with bi-directional interchanges with Heatherton and Stud Roads. Later in the 1970s and in the early 1980s it was progressively extended westward to Forster Road - with additional interchanges at Blackburn, Ferntree Gully, Wellington and Jacksons Roads (and eventually Police Road many years later) - then to Huntingdale Road, and finally to Warrigal Road in Chadstone. Construction at the Hallam end extended underneath an interchange at the Princes Highway and southwards along the old alignment of the South Gippsland Highway to the interchange with Dandenong-Hastings Road, now the Westernport Highway at Lyndhurst; this section was initially named the Eumemmerring Freeway, but later named the South Gippsland Freeway. The designation was dropped in 1988, coinciding with the opening of the South Eastern Arterial. Chadstone is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... South Gippsland Freeway is a short freeway linking Dandenong in Melbournes south-east to other south-eastern destinations, including the Mornington Peninsula and the Gippsland region. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

Interestingly at this time the Tullamarine Freeway also carried the route shield. A look at a 1969 freeway plan of Melbourne shows why. The two freeways were to be linked to each other from around East Malvern (at the Mulgrave Freeway end) and at Flemington (at the Tullamarine Freeway end), sweeping through the St Kilda area. The plan never came to fruition, however the two freeways have since been linked by the West Gate Freeway extension and the CityLink project. Heading through the Sound Tube on the Tullamarine Freeway Tullamarine Freeway is a Melbourne freeway linking the citys international airport to the CBD. History Tullamarine Freeway is one of the oldest freeways in Melbourne. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... West Gate Freeway citybound before the Williamstown Road interchange. ... CityLink is a tolled freeway system in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

South Eastern Freeway

Initial construction of the South Eastern Freeway had completed by the mid-1960s, connecting Burnley to Olympic Park at Harcourt Parade, which fed traffic to Punt Road at the Hoddle Bridge: an overpass across Punt Road quickly followed to end at Anderson Street and the Morell Bridge, with a single-carriageway feeder road to the Swan Street Bridge (and Batman Avenue) 800 metres beyond. The freeway was eventually further extended east from Burnley under the MacRobertson bridge along the Yarra, to Toorak Road (with a single-carriageway feeder road taking excess traffic to Burke Road), completed in 1971. Initially designated in the 1960s, it was later signed as until 1988, when the South Eastern Arterial was completed. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

South Eastern arterial link

The resulting gap between the Toorak/Burke Road end of the South Eastern Freeway and the Warrigal Road end of the Mulgrave Freeway frustrated drivers for many years, needing to rely increasingly on feeder roads to bridge the distance between them. The State Government proposed a road to connect them during the mid-1980s, before finally agreeing on an alignment and allowing construction to commence on a dual-carriageway link between the freeways; construction finished in 1988, and the link - and later the entire length of the now-connected freeway, from the city to Eumemmerring - was re-christened as the South Eastern Arterial; the new stretch of road also re-designated , with the Princes Highway (Dandenong Road) becoming an alternative route. Image File history File links Australian_Route_1. ... The Princes Highway is a segment of Australias Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide, via Melbourne. ...

The project attracted a great deal of controversy just before it opened and well afterwards: in order to save costs, only one freeway-style interchange had been constructed (underneath High Street in Glen Iris). Every other interchange with major roads along the route (Toorak, Burke, Tooronga and Warrigal Roads) was an at-grade intersection controlled by traffic-lights, and due to the fact that the road was constructed through residential areas, reduced speed limits were also enforced. This led to heavy congestion, frequently kilometres long, on the freeway, fuelling anger and frustration, and even attracting a rather-apt moniker of "the South-Eastern Carpark". High Street is a major southeast-northwest thoroughfare in Melbourne, Australia. ...

With a change of government several years later and a lot of political showmanship, more money was poured into the link road, constructing underpassed interchanges at Toorak and Burke Roads (and just an underpass at Tooronga Road), and a new overpass across Warrigal Road. New noise barriers and extra lanes were also constructed, and the freeway 'upgrade' was completed and the entire length renamed back to the South Eastern Freeway, before changing name again to the now-current Monash Freeway, so named by Premier Kennet after General Sir John Monash, arguably Australia's greatest soldier, engineer, scholar and nation builder. The improved road dramatically improved the rate of out-bound traffic, however the bottleneck at the Swan Street bridge still remained and the queues only got longer. A portion of the Monash Freeway at the city end (from Toorak to Punt Roads) was eventually incorporated into the CityLink project in the late 1990s by way of tunnels underneath the city to link to the eastern-end of the West Gate Freeway, allowing for an uninterrupted voyage past the CBD. CityLink is a tolled freeway system in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... West Gate Freeway citybound before the Williamstown Road interchange. ...

Hallam bypass

The sweeping curve of the freeway at the Hallam end that became the South Gippsland Freeway had its capacity reduced from three lanes to two, resulting in a notorious bottle-neck at peak hours, especially for out-bound traffic exiting at the Princes Highway interchange outside Dandenong; the extension finally bypassed the entire problem.

The freeway was extended by 7.5 km in late 2003 when the Hallam Bypass was completed after 3 years of construction, connecting the Monash Freeway in Hallam to the Princes Freeway in Berwick. It opened 6 months ahead of schedule and A$80 million under budget due to the omission of one key interchange that links the Hallam Bypass with the South Gippsland Freeway at Eummemmering. This omission causes unnecessary congestion on neighbouring roads as this traffic must exit the freeway at Princes Highway only to join the same freeway again from Belgrave-Hallam Road. Princes Freeway M1 links Melbourne to Geelong on the west and Traralgon on the east. ... Berwick-upon-Tweed is a border town, now in England, formerly in Scotland. ...

The Monash Freeway allows travel from Morwell in the central Latrobe Valley, to Corio in the north-east of Geelong - via CityLink and the West Gate and Princes Freeways. Motorists can cover over 200 km without encountering a set of traffic lights (except at Yarragon and Trafalgar, which are yet to be bypassed). The construction of the bypass also included the Hallam Bypass Trail shared path. Morwell () is a large country town in central Gippsland, a region in the east of Victoria. ... Corio, formely known as Cowie, is a residential and industrial, and one of the largest suburbs of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, located approximately 9 km north of the Geelong central business district. ... This article is about the Victorian city; the name may also refer to City of Geelong or Geelong city centre. ... Part of Yarragons main streetscape looking south. ... Trafalgar is a small town in Latrobe Valley, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ... // The Hallam Bypass Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians running along the Hallam Bypass between Doveton and Berwick in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

The entire stretch of the Monash Freeway bears the designation . Image File history File links Australian_Alphanumeric_State_Route_M1. ...

See also

• Road transport in Victoria

Princes Freeway at Lara Eastern Freeway, looking towards Melbourne city Main article: Road_transport_in_Australia The roads of Victoria are the highest density in any state in Australia. ...

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