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The Mornington Peninsula Freeway is a freeway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, that provides a link from south-eastern suburban Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula. Whilst the entire freeway from Dingley Village to Rosebud is declared by VicRoads as the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, the section between EastLink in Carrum Downs and Moorooduc ...
Western Australia has three named freeways – Kwinana Freeway, Mitchell Freeway, and Graham Farmer Freeway – but in addition has several highways that are in the process of being upgraded to full freeway standard and are considered part of the Perth freeway network. Their designation may remain as a highway though due to state restrictions ...
– Re-aligned through Dromana from Mornington Peninsula Freeway to current alignment when Peninsula Link opened in 2013 – Continues west over Port Phillip Bay to Bellarine Highway on Bellarine Peninsula – Continues north as along Nepean Highway eventually to Melbourne: B120 Hopkins Highway: Warrnambool: Ellerslie Mortlake: 50 km (31 mi) B121
One of the jewels of the Peninsula is the slick Pt Leo Estate, which has recently had a £24m makeover and includes a sculpture park overlooking the ocean and an excellent restaurant, Laura.
The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F2 Freeway corridor. The original plan shows the freeway extending down South Road over Nepean Highway heading north through Brighton and Elwood, following the Barkly Street-Punt Road-Hoddle Street corridor up through Merri Creek joining the ...
The period also saw freeway expansion into the suburbs with the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, an extension of the Eastern Freeway and the South Gippsland Freeway. In 2008, the EastLink toll freeway opened and existing freeways were further extended.
Access to the area by road is from the Nepean Highway, EastLink, Mornington Peninsula Freeway and Peninsula Link. Patterson Lakes has freeways at its door-step with a travel time to the CBD of 30–35 minutes. Patterson Lakes is accessible by a number of PTV bus routes servicing the area, which includes the 857 and 708. [24]
During the planning stages of the project, businesses in the Rutherford Road industrial area (located at the southern terminus of the freeway) wanted access via on/off ramps to the Mornington Peninsula Freeway and Frankston Freeway, in addition to EastLink. Prior to this project they had an off ramp only from the Mornington Peninsula Freeway ...