Melton Highway
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 Western FreewayMelton ( VIC ) ( 37 ° 42 ′ S , 144 ° 36 ′ E ) |
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 Calder FreewayKeilor ( Melbourne ) ( VIC ) ( 37 ° 42 ′ S , 144 ° 49 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 19 km | ||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Melton Highway (formerly also Keilor-Melton Road ) is a connecting road west of Melbourne in the south of the Australian state of Victoria . It connects the Western Freeway in Melton with the Calder Freeway in Keilor (Melbourne).
course
On the eastern edge of Melton , the Melton Highway branches off to the north from the Western Highway (NM8) and turns immediately to the east. It crosses Kororoit Creek and reaches the Calder Freeway (M79) southwest of the airport .
This makes the shortest connection between Ballarat and Melbourne Airport via this road.
Development status and speed restrictions
The two-lane road has overtaking lanes in several places. The bridge over the railway at Sydenham has already been laid out with four lanes.
In Melton the speed limit is 80 km / h and then increases to 100 km / h. From Sydenham the speed limit drops again, first to 90 km / h, then to 80 km / h and finally to 70 km / h as soon as the road leads through inhabited areas.
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 42