 West Gate Freeway citybound before the Williamstown Road interchange. West Gate Freeway (formerly the Lower Yarra Freeway) is a freeway in Melbourne, Australia, linking Geelong to Melbourne CBD and beyond. It is also a link between Melbourne and the west and linking industrial and residential areas west of the Yarra River with the city and port areas. The iconic West Gate Bridge is a part of the freeway. Image File history File links Australian_Alphanumeric_State_Route_M1. ...
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Princes Freeway M1 links Melbourne to Geelong on the west and Traralgon on the east. ...
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The Princes Highway is a segment of Australias Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide, via Melbourne. ...
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Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...
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History
The freeway was originally constructed in the late 1960s and was open for traffic by 1971, stretching from the intersection of the Princes Highway and Little Boundary Road in Altona North (later enlarged and named the Westgate Interchange) eastwards to Melbourne/Williamstown Roads just west of the mouth of the Yarra, initially designated with a F-82 shield. At the time, the only way to cross the Yarra west of the CBD was via a ferry crossing, which naturally saw far heavier demands once the Lower Yarra Freeway was officially opened. The West Gate Bridge across the Yarra had started construction not too long before the opening of the freeway, and although delayed, when finally completed in 1978 allowed the freeway to extend over the river and directly into the CBD's south-western corner (via Rogers and Lorimer Streets). The freeway's name was changed to the West Gate Freeway to commemorate its opening, but the freeway also attracted tolls from anyone using the bridge (between Melbourne/Williamstown Road and Rogers Street); these were later abolished in the mid-1980s. National Route 1 - previously designated along Geelong Road (Princes Highway West) and through the CBD via Smithfield and Flemington Roads and King Street - was altered to use the freeway instead and rejoin Kings Way via Rogers, Lorimer and Claredon Streets. Altona North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
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The National Route 1 shield was once a familiar sight in all states Highway 1 is Australias coastal highway joining all mainlands state capitals and coastal towns circumnavigating the entire Australian continent. ...
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Due to how much extra traffic the West Gate Freeway was attracting, and also due to safety concerns having most of it filtered through connector streets in South Melbourne, the freeway was finally extended to Kings Way above the Grant Street intersection using elevated carriageways in 1987.
With the subsequent completion of the Western Ring Road joining the Westgate Interchange to the freeway's west and CityLink to the freeway's east, it also funnels traffic from northern and western suburbs around Melbourne, acting as a bypass freeway. Western Ring Road is a freeway in Melbourne connecting the northern suburbs and the western suburbs to interstate freeways. ...
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The entire freeway has been given an M1 designation. It gains the Tourist 2 shield at the Melbourne/Williamstown Road interchange in Spotswood, and loses it at the Montague Street interchange in Port Melbourne.
Interchanges The West Gate Freeway officially begins at the Westgate Interchange in Altona North. The freeway flows from the Western Ring Road
 and the Princes Freeway
 with access to the Princes Highway (Geelong Road)
 also provided with city bound exit and Geelong bound entry ramps. Altona North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
Western Ring Road is a freeway in Melbourne connecting the northern suburbs and the western suburbs to interstate freeways. ...
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Princes Freeway M1 links Melbourne to Geelong on the west and Traralgon on the east. ...
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The Princes Highway is a segment of Australias Highway 1 that extends from Sydney to Adelaide, via Melbourne. ...
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The interchanges along the freeway include:
Further east after the Power/Sturt Street interchange, the freeway changes into the CityLink tollway which consists of the Domain and Burnley tunnels. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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Spotswood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
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CityLink is a tolled freeway system in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
A west-bound tunnel joining the Monash Freeway to the West Gate Freeway in Melbourne, Australia. ...
View in December 2000, just before opening The Burnley Tunnel is a highway tunnel in Melbourne, Australia. ...
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