Airport Drive (Melbourne)

Airport Drive
Length 1.5 km (1 mi)
Direction North-South
From Sharps Road,
Tullamarine, Melbourne
To Western Ring Road,
Airport West, Melbourne
Established 1997
Major junctions for full list see major interchanges

Airport Drive, is a short 1.5 kilometre semi-standard freeway in Melbourne, Australia, between Sharps Road Tullamarine and the Western Ring Road at Airport West. This road is an important thoroughfare for the Melbourne Airport business park along South Centre Road. A proposed extension of the freeway is to run through the business park to Melrose Drive, Melbourne Airport, yet no announcement or commitment has been made to construct the road.

Airport Drive opened to traffic in May 1997 and was declared a freeway under the Road Management Act 2004.[1]

Major Interchanges

Airport Drive
Northbound Distance from
Western Ring Road
(km)
Southbound
Traffic Lights (clockwise from freeway)
Sharps Road to Keilor Park (2 km)
Sharps Road to Gladstone Park (5 km) and Mickleham (19 km)
End Airport Drive 1.5 Start Airport Drive
Seymour, Sydney
Western Ring Road
0.1 Seymour, Sydney
Western Ring Road
Start Airport Drive 0.0 End Airport Drive
Roundabout (clockwise from freeway)
Westfield Drive to Airport West (1 km)
Western Ring Road to Melbourne via Freeway (37 km); to Geelong via Freeway (80 km) and Adelaide via (714 km)

References

  1. ^ MRV: Airport Connection Road Main Roads Victoria. 6 October 2008. Retrieved on 21 September 2009.