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The western section (also known as Princes Freeway West or Geelong Road) starts at Corio, in the northern suburbs of Geelong and heads north-east as a six-lane dual-carriageway freeway, widening to eight lanes east of Werribee, and ends at the West Gate Interchange in Laverton, where the Western Ring Road and the old Geelong Road can be accessed by off-ramps.
Point Cook recorded a population of 66,781 at the 2021 census, [1] making it the most populated suburb in Australia. [2] Point Cook is the home of RAAF Base Point Cook, the birthplace of the Royal Australian Air Force, and is the current home of the RAAF Museum. Point Cook is also home to many playgrounds and parks/public spaces.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [6] through the Parliament of Victoria granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: VicRoads re-declared the road in 2010 as Princes Highway West (Arterial #6500), beginning at the state border with South Australia to Geelong, then ...
Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.It has a length of 1,941 kilometres (1,206 mi) (along Highway 1) or 1,898 kilometres (1,179 mi) via the former alignments of the highway, [citation needed] although these routes are slower and connections to the bypassed sections of ...
Route numbers have been allocated to Victoria's roads since 1954, with the introduction of National Routes across all states and territories in Australia, symbolised by a white shield with black writing; National Route 1 ('Highway 1') was one of the best-known numbered national routes, due to its fame for circumnavigating the continent.
Werribee is surrounded by several mostly residential suburbs: Wyndham Vale to the north-west, Hoppers Crossing and Tarneit to the north, Truganina and Williams Landing to the north-east, and Point Cook to the east. The market gardens and well-known tourist precinct are found in Werribee South, on the other side of the Maltby Bypass.
Bellarine Highway begins at the intersection of Latrobe Terrace and McKillop Street on the western edge of central Geelong.As McKillop Street, it runs east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Geelong, where it eventually intersects with and changes its name to Ormond Road, running south-east until the intersection with Boundary Road on the eastern edge of central Geelong.
This connected the Serviceton and Port Fairy railway lines and redirected Geelong V/Line trains away from the Port Fairy line and Hoppers Crossing. In November 2018, the Victorian Government announced that the level crossing at Old Geelong Road would be removed by closing the existing road and constructing a new road bridge east of the station ...