Ring Road (Melbourne)

Ring Road
Basic data
Operator:	VicRoads
Start of the street:	Princes Freeway West Gate Freeway Altona North ( Melbourne ) ( VIC ) ( 37 ° 50 ′  S , 144 ° 49 ′  E )
End of street:	Greensborough Highway Greensborough ( Melbourne ) ( VIC ) ( 37 ° 42 ′  S , 145 ° 6 ′  E )
Overall length:	38 km
States :	Victoria
Western Ring Road in Keilor Park

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Ring Road (formerly Western Ring Road and Metropolitan Ring Road ) is a ring road around the western and northern suburbs of Melbourne in the south of the Australian state of Victoria . He connects:

• the Hume Freeway
• the M2 / Tullamarine Freeway
• the Calder Freeway
• the Western Freeway
• the West Gate Freeway and
• the Princes Freeway West

The Western Ring Road runs from the Princes Highway in Altona North to the Hume Freeway in Campbellfield , the shorter Metropolitan Ring Road from there to the Greensborough Highway in Greensborough . Both together are called the Ring Road and are usually considered together in traffic reports. Between the Western Freeway and Hume Freeway, the road is numbered NM80 and is part of the national highway network, while the two ends are numbered M80.

The ring road relieves heavy traffic from Sydney Road , Pascoe Vale Road and Geelong Road and directs it directly to the freeways. With its connection to every major major highway in Melbourne, it has fueled industrial and residential growth in the western suburbs.

In recent years there has been discussions about extending the Ring Road from Greensborough Road in a tunnel under Greensborough and through Banyule Flats to the Eastern Freeway in Bulleen . VicRoads has commissioned a study to investigate the addition of an Outer Metropolitan Ring Road (further outside Melbourne) to the Western Ring Road .

history

The Ring Road project was proposed as part of the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan (Freeway Corridors F3 and F5). Construction of the Western Ring Road began in 1989 with work on the Broadmeadows section and was completed in 1999 with the last gap between Calder Freeway and Tullamarnie Freeway. The Keating Government of the Australian Commonwealth provided a total of AU $ 555 million for the Western Ring Road, and the Government of Victoria added another AU $ 76 million to this amount.

The project is basically divided into three sections:

• Western Ring Road from West Gate Freeway (M1) to Hume Freeway (NM31)
• Northern Ring Road (also Metropolitan Ring Road ) from Hume Freeway (NM31) to Greensborough Highway (S46)
• Eastern Ring Road (also EastLink ) from Eastern Freeway (S83) to Frankston Freeway (S11)

The widening of the Western Ring Road and the Metropolitan Ring Road is to be carried out in 2009-2014 and subsidized by the federal government as part of the Auslink-2 program.

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Missing route section

Today the Northern Ring Road ends in the east at Greensborough at the bypass. There are currently no confirmed plans to extend the road further to Eastern Ring Road.

The missing section would also run through environmentally sensitive areas such as Viewbank, Banyule Flats, Eltham, Tempelstowe and Warrandyte . A tunnel solution would be more suitable here.

course

EJ Whitten Bridge

The Western Ring Road is 28 km and the Metropolitan Ring Riyadh is 10 km.

An important part of the Ring Road is the EJ Whitten Bridge over the Maribyrnong River , which was named after the Australian football player Ted Whitten .

The road has a central section throughout and has four to eight lanes. The speed limit is almost continuously 100 km / h, only between Plenty Road and Greensborough Bypass does it drop to 90 km / h, since there is no median. The Western Ring Road has variable speed limits between the Western Highway and Tullamarine Freeway, which can allow traffic to flow at 60 to 100 km / h - depending on the traffic situation.

Crossings and junctions

Western / Metropolitan Ring Road
Connections to the north	Distance to Greensborough (km)	Distance to Melbourne (km)	Connections to the south
Traffic lights (clockwise from the freeway) Greensborough Highway to Diamond Creek (7 km) and Kinglake (36 km) Greensborough Highway to Greensborough (3 km) and Heidelberg (7 km)
End of Metropolitan Ring Road	3	34	Start of Metropolitan Ring Road
Whittlesea, Bundoora Plenty Road	5	32	Bundoora, Whittlesea Plenty Road
Epping, Dalton Road Reservoir	8th	29	Reservoir, Epping Dalton Road
RAILWAY LINE TO SOUTH MORANG	9	28	RAILWAY LINE TO SOUTH MORANG
Thomastown, to across Epping Edgars Road	10	27	to via Campbellfield, Thomastown Edgars Road
Connections to the north	Distance to Sydney (km)	Distance to Melbourne (km)	Connections to the south
End of Western Ring Road further than Metropolitan Ring Road	855	25th	Seymour , Sydney Hume Freeway
Seymour , Sydney Hume Freeway			End of Metropolitan Ring Road further than Western Ring Road
Craigieburn, Coburg Sydney Road	857	23	Coburg , Craigieburn Sydney Road
RAILWAY LINE TO UPFIELD			RAILWAY LINE TO UPFIELD
RAILWAY LINE NORTH EAST	859	21st	RAILWAY LINE NORTH EAST
Broadmeadows, Glenroy Pascoe Vale Road			no exit
Sunbury Tullamarine Freeway	862	18th	Melbourne , Sunbury Tullamarine Freeway
			Tullamarine , Airport West Melrose Drive
Connections to the north	Distance to Sydney (km)	Distance to Adelaide (km)	Connections to the south
Tullamarine , Airport West Airport Drive Westfield Drive	864	725	Airport West, Tullamarine Westfield Drive Airport Drive
Melbourne Calder Freeway	866	723	Bendigo Calder Freeway
to about Bendigo ; Keilor Park, Avondale Heights Keilor Park Drive	868	721	Keilor Park, Avondale Heights Keilor Park Drive
Taylors Lakes, Sunshine McIntyre Road Sunshine Avenue	872	717	Sunshine, Taylors Lakes McIntyre Road Sunshine Avenue
St. Albans , Sunshine Furlong Road	874	715	Sunshine, St. Albans Furlong Road
RAILWAY LINE TO BENDIGO	875	714	RAILWAY LINE TO BENDIGO
Deer Park, Sunshine Ballarat Road	876	713	Sunshine, Deer Park Ballarat Road
RAILWAY WEST	877	712	RAILWAY WEST
Connections to the north	Distance to Adelaide (km)	Distance to Melbourne (km)	Connections to the south
End further than	711	18th	Ballarat , Adelaide Western Freeway
Laverton, Ardeer Fitzgerald Road			Ardeer , Laverton Fitzgerald Road
Ballarat , Adelaide Western Freeway			End further than
MOBILE SERVICE CENTER	712	17th	MOBILE SERVICE CENTER
Truganina, to across Footscray Boundary Road	713	16	to via Footscray, Truganina Boundary Road
Start of Western Ring Road on from West Gate Freeway	714	15th	Geelong Princes Freeway
			End of Western Ring Road and continue as West Gate Freeway to Melbourne

Expansion 2009–2012

At the end of 2009, the widening began on the 38 km of the M80 / NM80 from the Princes Freeway in Altona North to the Greensborough Highway in Greensborough.

The first construction phase consists of widening the 9.7 km from Calder Freeway to Sydney Road to 6-8 lanes.

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 41

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AusLink 2: Western Ring Road . Government of Victoria ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
2. ↑ PDF at www.thiess.com.au ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2010 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. 
3. ↑ PDF at www.thiess.com.au ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2010 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.