Monash-CityLink-West Gate Upgrade
| Timeframe: | Start: late 2007
End: 2010
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| Cost: | $1.39 billion | | |
What's happening
Keep up-to-date with major roadworks by viewing the roadworks section of the
Monash-CityLink-West Gate Upgrade website.
Project description
The Monash-CityLink-West Gate upgrade will improve capacity, traffic flow and safety along the State's busiest route. The project involves adding an extra lane between Heatherton Road in Dandenong through to the CityLink tunnels and between the West Gate Bridge and the CityLink tunnels.
The project will also include:
- a new state-of-the-art freeway management system
- improved design of the West Gate Freeway between the bridge and the tunnels
- strengthening of the West Gate Bridge.
This is the biggest ever state-funded road upgrade and is being delivered jointly with Transurban.
Project benefits
The Monash-CityLink-West Gate Upgrade will deliver an estimated $14.5 billion in benefits to Victorians by reducing congestion and travel times, improving reliability along the freeway and reducing the number of casualty crashes.
- Once completed, Melbourne will have one of the most advanced freeway management systems in the world. The system will monitor and manage how the freeway is operating to ensure it's reaching and maintaining its maximum capacity, particularly in peak times.
- The system will also allow VicRoads and emergency services to better manage incidents quickly and safely and return the road to normal as soon as possible.
- The Monash-CityLink-West Gate corridor is Victoria's busiest freight route. The upgrade will reduce travel times between the city, its ports, its airports and some of the State’s most productive manufacturing areas.
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