Princes Freeway

Princes Freeway
Basic data
Operator:	VicRoads
Start of the street:	Princes Highway Traralgon ( VIC ) ( 38 ° 11 ′  S , 146 ° 34 ′  E )
End of street:	Geelong Ring Road Corio ( VIC ) ( 38 ° 3 ′  S , 144 ° 23 ′  E )
Overall length:	159 km
States :	Victoria
Princess Freeway in Lara

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The Princes Freeway is a trunk road in the south of the Australian state of Victoria . It consists of two separate sections: the eastern, 112 km long section connects Morwell with the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne , the western, 47 km long the western suburbs of the capital with Geelong . In this area it replaces the Princes Highway , which connects Sydney via Melbourne with Adelaide and Port Augusta . The freeway is numbered M1.

The western section serves as an important route for commuters and heavy traffic between Melbourne and Geelong, the eastern section connects the capital with the industrial region of Latrobe Valley and the holiday region of East Gippsland .

course

The western section of the route (also Princes Freeway West or Geelong Road ) begins in Altona at the West Gate junction, where the Western Ring Road and the old Geelong Road are connected, and ends in Geelong. This road has six lanes from Geelong to Werribee , while it has ten lanes near the junction with the Western Ring Road. The speed limit on this freeway is 100 km / h.

The eastern section of the route (also Princes Freeway East ) begins in Berwick as a four-lane freeway with a median. There are also a number of level connections, especially between Nar Nar Goon and Longwarry . In these areas the maximum speed is also limited to 100 km / h, only 110 km / h are permitted from Longwarry to Morwell. Traffic continues to flow through the towns of Yarragon and Trafalgar , where speeds are limited to 60 km / h and 80 km / h, respectively. Bypasses for these cities are being planned.

The west and east sections of the Princes Freeway are linked through Melbourne by the West Gate Freeway , CityLink Tollway and Monash Freeway . These five route sections together with the Geelong Ring Road form the M1, part of National Highway 1 .

The Princes Freeway includes or bypasses most of the older Princes Highway in this area. Where parts of the Princes Highway run parallel, they are numbered Alt 1 (in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne), and as C101, C102, C103, C104 and C109 (in the western suburbs of Melbourne).

No overtaking for heavy vehicles

In March 2010, the Victoria State Government announced that trucks would be banned from the right lane on a 38 km stretch between Melbourne and Geelong. This was called for as early as 2005 and after the fire in the Burnley Tunnel with many victims, in which three people died, the discussion took off. The overtaking ban came into effect on July 1, 2010 between Kororoit Creek Road in Altona and Avalon Road in Lara and affects all vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of more than 4.5 t, with the exception of buses and mobile homes. Anyone who does not adhere to it must pay an administrative fines of AU $ 358. This penal rule is an attempt that will later be rolled out to other major Victoria roads.

Western section

Princes Freeway West (Geelong Road)
Connections to the north	Exit No. Distance to Melbourne		Connections to the south
End of Princes Freeway West and continue as West Gate Freeway to Melbourne	- (15 km)		Start of Princes Freeway West from West Gate Freeway
Footscray, Parkville Princes Highway	W9 (15 km)
Adelaide , Sydney Western Ring Road	W10 (15 km)
Williamstown Kororoit Creek Road	11 (17 km)		Williamstown , Tarneit Kororoit Creek Road
Tarneit, Deer Park Old Geelong Road Fitzgerald Road	12 (18 km)		no exit
RAILWAY LINE TO GEELONG	- (20 km)		RAILWAY LINE TO GEELONG
Laverton High Street	13 (21 km)		Altona Meadows Newland Street
Laverton, Point Cook Point Cook Road via Aviation Road	14 (22 km)		Point Cook, Laverton Point Cook Road via Central Avenue
no exit	15 (23 km)		Point Cook Palmers Road
Hoppers Crossing, Point Cook Forsyth Road Boardwalk Boulevard	16 (24 km)		Point Cook, Hoppers Crossing Boardwalk Boulevard Forsyth Road
Hoppers Crossing, Werribee Princes Highway	17 (26 km)		Hoppers Crossing, Werribee Princes Highway
no exit	19 (31 km)		Werribee Zoo , Werribee Duncans Road
Connections to the north	Distance to Melbourne (km)	Distance to Geelong (km)	Southbound exits
Werribee Princes Highway	37	36	Werribee Princes Highway
Little River, Cocoroc Little River Road South Road	46	27	Cocoroc, Little River South Road Little River Road
no exit	49	24	Point Wilson Point Wilson Road Argyle Street
BP SERVICE CENTER	54	19th	BP SERVICE CENTER
to Old Melbourne Road, Point Wilson Beach Road	56	17th	Point Wilson, to Old Melbourne Road Beach Road
Lara, Avalon Avalon Road	60	13	Avalon, Lara Avalon Road
RAILWAY LINE TO GEELONG	63	10	Corio, Geelong Princes Highway
			North Shore Shell Parade
			RAILWAY LINE TO GEELONG
Start of Princes Freeway West from Geelong Ring Road			At the end of Princes Freeway West continue as Geelong Ring Road to Colac / Warrnambool

Note Exits are only numbered up to Duncans Road .

Eastern section

Princes Freeway East
Connections to the north	Exit No. Distance to Melbourne		Connections to the south
End of Princes Freeway East and continue as Monash Freeway to Melbourne	- (44 km)		Start of Princes Freeway East from Monash Freeway
Dandenong , Berwick Princes Highway	23 (44 km)
RAILWAY LINE TO GIPPSLAND	- (45 km)		RAILWAY LINE TO GIPPSLAND
Cranbourne, Berwick Clyde Road	24 (46 km)		Berwick , Cranbourne Clyde Road
Connections to the west	Distance to Melbourne (km)	Distance to Traralgon (km)	Connections to the east
no exit	49	116	Beaconsfield , Officer Old Princes Highway
BP SERVICE CENTER	51	114	BP SERVICE CENTER
Cardinia, Officer Cardinia Road	55	110	Officer, Cardinia Cardinia Road
no exit	58	107	Pakenham , Rythdale McGregor Road
Koo Wee Rup , Pakenham Koo Wee Rup Road	60	105	Pakenham , Koo Wee Rup Koo Wee Rup Road
RAILWAY LINE TO GIPPSLAND	62	103	RAILWAY LINE TO GIPPSLAND
Nar Nar Goon, Pakenham Nar Nar Goon Road Old Princes Highway	69	96	Pakenham , Nar Nar Goon Old Princes Highway Nar Nar Goon Road
Maryknoll Snell Road	71	94	Maryknoll Snell Road
Tynong, Bunyip State Park Tynong Road Tynong North Road	73	92	Bunyip State Park, Tynong Tynong North Road Tynong Road
Gumbuya Park	76	89	Gumbuya Park
Garfield, Garfield North Garfield Road Garfield North Road	78	87	Garfield North, Garfield Garfield North Road Garfield Road
Tonimbuk Tonimbuk Road	80	85	Tonimbuk Tonimbuk Road
Bunyip Nash Road	82	83	Bunyip Nash Road
Longwarry, Labertouche Sand Road	88	77	BP SERVICE CENTER
BP SERVICE CENTER			Labertouche, Longwarry Sand Road
Drouin, Mount Baw Baw Drouin-Warragul Road (Princes Way)	93	72	Mount Baw Baw , Drouin Drouin-Warragul Road (Princes Way)
Drouin, Warragul Drouin-Warragul Road (Princes Way)	100	65	Warragul , Drouin Drouin-Warragul Road (Princes Way)
RAILWAY LINE TO GIPPSLAND			RAILWAY LINE TO GIPPSLAND
Korumburra, Warragul Warragul-Korumburra Road	106	59	Warragul , Korumburra Warragul-Korumburra Road
Nilma, Noojee Bloomfield Road (Princes Way)	109	56	Noojee, Nilma Bloomfield Road (Princes Way)
Cloverlea, Darnum East-West Road	113	52	So, Cloverlea East-West Road
Start of the freeway	118	47	End of freeway
Shady Creek Yarragon-Shady Creek Road	119	46	Yarragon
Yarragon			Shady Creek Yarragon-Shady Creek Road
Willow Grove, Mount Baw Baw Willow Grove Road Thorpdale Trafalgar-Thorpdale Road	125	40	Willow Grove, Mount Baw Baw Willow Grove Road Thorpdale Trafalgar-Thorpdale Road
Trafalgar	126	39	Trafalgar
End of freeway	128	37	Start of the freeway
Moe Moe-Glengarry Road via Lloyd Street Link Road	134	31	Moe Moe-Glengarry Road
Moe , Newborough Moe-Glengarry Road	138	27	Newborough, Glengarry Moe-Glengarry Road
Hernes Oak Morwell-Yallourn Road	142	23	Hernes Oak Morwell-Yallourn Road
no exit	147.5	17.5	Morwell Morwell-Traralgon Road (Princes Drive)
Leongatha, Morwell Strzelecki Highway	148	17th	Morwell , Leongatha Strzelecki Highway
Churchill, Morwell Monash Way	153	12	Morwell , Churchill Monash Way
RAILWAY LINE TO GIPPSLAND	156	9	RAILWAY LINE TO GIPPSLAND
Morwell Morwell-Traralgon Road (Princes Drive)			End of Princes Freeway East and continue as Princes Highway to Traralgon / Sale
Start of Princes Freeway East from Princes Highway

Note Exits are only numbered up to Clyde Road .

Recently completed expansion

Traralgon bypass and widening of the route to Sale

VicRoads has completed its rough planning and plans to build a bypass for Traralgon. Four routes were publicly proposed, of which Route No. 2 was preferred. Construction began in early 2012.

To the east of Traralgon, the Princes Highway (A1) between Traralgon and Sale is currently being expanded to four lanes, bringing it to freeway standard.

Geelong Ring Road

Main article: Geelong Ring Road

The State Government of Victoria and the Federal Government of Australia announced the construction of a new 23 km bypass through the western suburbs of Geelong from the Princes Freeway in Corio to the Princes Highway in Waurn Point . The bypass was completed in 2008 and 2009. 29 traffic lights are avoided and the journey time is reduced from 25–60 minutes to 15 minutes.

Pakenham bypass

The Pakenham bypass was the last missing part of a continuous freeway from Melbourne to Gippsland in east Victoria (with the exception of the individual traffic lights in Yarragon and Trafalgar). The State Government of Victoria and the Australian Federal Government jointly paid AU $ 242 million. Construction began in April 2005 and was completed on December 1, 2007. The 24 km long freeway from Beaconsfield to Nar Nar Goon bypasses Pakenham and Officer and thus provides an important high-speed connection between Gippsland and Melbourne.

Planned expansion

Increasing road safety

The proposed increase in traffic safety on the Princes Freeway East from Nar Nar Goon to Longwarry North is included in the financing plan Auslink 2 - National Transport Links - Growing Victoria's Economy (aka "the Mothership") .

Princes Highway East

The expansion of the Princes Highway from Traralgon to Sale to freeway standard is also to be financed with Auslink 2 (2009-2014).

Princes Highway West

The expansion of the Princes Highway from Waurn Ponds to Colac to freeway standard is also to be financed with Auslink 2 (2009-2014).

Web links

• Princes Freeway West . Main Roads Victoria

source

• Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 42, 43, 50, 52

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CLAY LUCAS: Trucks banned from freeway lane . In: The Age . theage.com.au. March 4, 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
2. ↑ Truck lane restrictions: VicRoads . www.vicroads.vic.gov.au. Archived from the original on February 26, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 19, 2010. 
3. ↑ Jessica Craven: Princes Freeway truckies in right, will be in wrong . In: Geelong Advertiser . www.geelongadvertiser.com.au. June 17, 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
4. ↑ 'FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR GEELONG BYPASS AS FIRST AUSLINK FUNDING AGREEMENT SIGNED' - May 27, 2005 . Archived from the original on August 29, 2007. Retrieved July 26, 2007.
5. ↑ DoI media release - 'COMMUNITY CELEBRATES AS FIRST SOD TURNED ON THE PAKENHAM BYPASS' - August 5, 2005 . Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 26, 2007.  
6. ↑ PDF at www.doi.vic.gov.au ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ PDF at www.doi.vic.gov.au ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ PDF at www.doi.vic.gov.au ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.