Westernport Highway

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Westernport Highway
Formerly
Length 27 km
General direction North-South
From South Gippsland Freeway,
Lyndhurst, Melbourne
via Lynbrook, Skye, Cranbourne West, Langwarrin, Cranbourne South, Pearcedale, Somerville, Tyabb
To Frankston Flinders Road, Hastings, Victoria
Allocation Lyndhurst - Langwarrin:
Langwarrin - Hastings:
Major Junctions South Gippsland Highway
Thompsons Road
Hall Road
Ballarto Road
Cranbourne - Frankston Road
North Road
Robinsons Road
Baxter-Tooradin Road
Eramosa Road East
Bungower Road
Tyabb - Tooradin Road

Westernport Highway / is a highway in Victoria, Australia, which runs from the end of the South Gippsland Freeway at Lyndhurst, firstly as a dual carriageway and later as an undivided road to Frankston-Flinders Road at Hastings. Originally named the Dandenong-Hastings Rd, a single carriageway road, it was progressively upgraded to a divided highway between Frankston-Cranbourne Rd and the South Gippsland Freeway during the 1990s as the freight traffic from the Port of Hastings became more important to Melbourne.

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[edit] Route

The highway begins as a dual carriageway with two lanes running in each direction and between the South Gippsland Freeway and Hall Road the highway actually has the route shield . After overpassing the Cranbourne Railway line, and going through roundabouts at Thompsons Road, Hall Road, Ballarto Road and Cranbourne-Frankston Road, it reverts to a two-way road and assigned as . It continues south with a roundabout at Baxter-Tooradin Road and finally ending at an intersection with Frankston-Flinders Road at Hastings.

[edit] Duplication Upgrade in Langwarrin

Western Port Highway duplication, Langwarrin. (source:VicRoads [1])

A $36.8 million State Government funded project to extend the Western Port Highway duplication from the Cranbourne-Frankston Road to North Road at Langwarrin. Works involve widening and reconstruction providing two lanes in each direction separated by a central median.

Construction to start: late 2007

Completion: early 2009

Length of works: 4.2km.


[edit] Anticipated Future Upgrades

  • Realignment between Frankston-Flinders Rd and Graydens Rd (2021);
  • Full grade-separated interchange at Thompsons Rd (2021);
  • Duplication between North Rd and Baxter-Tooradin Rd (2021);
  • Upgrade to freeway standard between South Gippsland Freeway and Cranbourne-Frankston Rd with full grade-separated interchanges at Glasscocks Rd, Thompsons Rd, Hall Rd and Cranbourne- Frankston Rd (2031);
  • Duplication between Baxter-Tooradin Rd and Frankston-Flinders Rd (2031).

For more information go to the Frankston Bypass Publications page on the Eastlink (SEITA) website [2]

[edit] See also

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