Frankston Freeway
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| Operator: | VicRoads |
| Start of the street: |
M3 EastLink Mornington Peninsula Freeway North Carrum Downs ( VIC ) ( 38 ° 6 ′ S , 145 ° 9 ′ E ) |
| End of street: |
Moorooduc Highway Frankston ( VIC ) ( 38 ° 9 ′ S , 145 ° 8 ′ E ) |
| Overall length: | 7 km |
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Map with all coordinates: The Frankston Freeway is an urban freeway in the south of the Australian state of Victoria . It connects the northern part of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway and the EastLink in Carrum Downs with the Moorooduc Highway in Frankston .
history
In the early 1960s, the Frankston Freeway was still called Wells Road Bypass and was a two-lane road with no median between Cranbourne Road and Seaford Road in Frankston . It then went on to Mordialloc as Wells Road . At the beginning of the 1970s, this Wells Road Bypass was expanded to the freeway standard and around 1980 the rest of the freeway up to Springvale Road was built parallel to the existing Wells Road .
The road numbered as State Road 11 (S11) was to be numbered M11 as part of the general re-numbering of highways in Victoria after the EastLink was completed in 2008, but that plan has been abandoned.
In the absence of a Frankston bypass, the freeway is often congested, especially during the holiday season. In 2013, however, a bypass should be completed as part of the Peninsula Link . Then the Frankston Freeway will be given the number M3, while Peninsula Link and Mornington Peninsula Freeway will be referred to as M11.
course
The Frankston Freeway begins in Carrum Downs at the southern end of the northern section of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway (S11). There is also the new EastLink (M3) connected, which creates the connection to the Eastern Freeway through the eastern suburbs of Melbourne .
In the north of Frankston , the Dandenong Valley Highway (S9), which runs parallel to the EastLink, also meets the Frankston Freeway. A little later, the Frankston Freeway ends in downtown Frankston and merges into the two-lane Moorooduc Highway (S11), which connects to the southern part of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway (S11).
Crossings and junctions
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Frankston Freeway
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| Connections to the north | Distance to Melbourne (km) |
Distance to Frankston (km) |
Connections to the south |
End of Frankston Freeway further as EastLink to Melbourne 
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47 | 5 |
Start of Frankston Freeway from EastLink and Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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| Springvale, Mordialloc Mornington Peninsula Freeway
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| Seaford, Skye Seaford Road |
49 | 3 | Skye, Seaford Seaford Road |
| Frankston, Dandenong Dandenong Valley Highway 
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51 | 1 |
Dandenong , Frankston Dandenong Valley Highway
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| Connections to the north | Distance to Melbourne (km) |
Distance to Portsea (km) |
Connections to the south |
| Beach Street | 54 | 56 | no exit |
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Start of the Frankston Freeway
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End of Frankston Freeway
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  Traffic lights (clockwise from Freeway) Cranbourne Road to Cranbourne McMahons Road to Portsea and Flinders Cranbourne Road to Frankston town center 
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literature
- Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007, ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 , pp. 41 + 43.