Frankston Freeway
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| Length | 7 km |
| General direction | North-South |
| From |  EastLink / Mornington Peninsula Freeway,Carrum Downs, Melbourne |
| Major suburbs | Seaford |
| To | Moorooduc Highway, Frankston, Melbourne |
| Allocation | Carrum Downs - Frankston:
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| Major Junctions | Seaford Road Dandenong Valley Highway
for full list see Exits and Intersections |
- See also: Moorooduc Highway and Mornington Peninsula Freeway
Frankston Freeway is a very short stretch of Melbourne freeway that was designed to upgrade Wells Road to freeway standard in the 1970's and provides a link from suburban Melbourne to Frankston. The freeway is commonly congested in holiday months due to the omission of the Frankston Bypass.
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[edit] Future Route Numbering
Currently signs are progressively being changed to . Thus far, the 
EastLink interchange is the only route evident that has emerged so far. In future, it could be speculated that the proposed Frankston Bypass will be signed as and could give the existing Frankston Freeway yet another new route number. One of these routes could be the (which coincides the same stretch of road as EastLink) to Cranbourne-Frankston Road.[citation needed]
New signs have been erected on the northbound carriageway of the Frankston Freeway, only at the EastLink junction which displays Mornington Peninsula Freeway and the other is just before the junction at Seaford Road entrance which is a directional sign displaying Springvale, the other half of the sign is covered and obviously makes reference to Eastlink to the City.
To view signage in the southbound direction, please click here.
By at least until 1979 the full length of Springvale Road still carried the .
[edit] History of the Frankston Freeway / Mornington Peninsula Freeway
In the early 1960's the Frankston Freeway was known as the Wells Road Bypass , an undivided highway between Frankston-Cranbourne Road and Seaford Road. It then continued on to Mordialloc as Wells Road. The Wells Road Bypass was upgraded to freeway standard in the early 1970's and by around 1980 the rest of the freeway was constructed to Springvale Road alongside the existing Wells Road.
[edit] Route
The Frankston Freeway was designed to accommodate Mornington Peninsula Freeway from the northern section, and it has had a missing Frankston Bypass for decades (Vicroads having decided that traffic on the route was not heavy enough to merit a Frankston Bypass, the middle section of the freeway), and at this stage the Frankston Freeway serves as the missing link between the two Mornington Peninsula Freeways.
The Frankston Freeway begins in Carrum Downs south until Cranbourne Road, as the incomplete section of the actual Mornington Peninsula Freeway, which bypasses Frankston, swings off to the south east. The soon to be completed Eastlink toll road will terminate at the Carrum Downs end of the Frankston Freeway, providing a freeway standard road north through the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne to the Eastern end of the Eastern Freeway, and beyond.
The freeway is generally parallel to Nepean Highway along the route including the Mornington Peninsula Freeway and Moorooduc Highway.
[edit] Exits and Intersections
Frankston Freeway   |
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| Northbound exits | Distance from EastLink (km) |
Distance from Moorooduc Highway (km) |
Southbound exits |
| End Frankston Freeway continues as EastLink to Melbourne |
7 | 0 | Start Frankston Freeway from EastLink |
| Carrum Downs Mornington Peninsula Freeway |
no exit | ||
| Seaford Seaford Road |
3 | 4 | Seaford Seaford Road |
| Frankston Dandenong Valley Highway  |
5 | 2 | Frankston Dandenong Valley Highway |
| Frankston Beach Street |
7 | 0 | no exit |
| Start Frankston Freeway continues from Moorooduc Highway |
End Frankston Freeway continues as Moorooduc Highway to Portsea |
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