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| end_b = | est = 2008-2013 | through = Lovely Banks, Bell Post Hill, Hamlyn Heights, Fyansford, Wandana Heights, Waurn Ponds | route = | exits = }} The Geelong Ring Road (formerly known as the Geelong Bypass and the Geelong Outer Freeway) is a freeway ring road in Australia that extends for beside Geelong's western suburbs from the Princes Freeway at Corio to the Princes Highway at Waurn Ponds.〔(VicRoads - Geelong Ring Road route map )〕 It also connects to the Midland Highway towards Ballarat, and the Hamilton Highway. Sections one and two were officially opened 14 December 2008, with section three on 14 June 2009. Section four recently opened in January 2013 extending to the Princes Highway at Mount Moriac, which now avoids the narrow and windy road from Waurn Ponds towards Winchelsea.〔(VicRoads - Geelong Ring Road update )〕 ==History== One of the first plans for a ring road of Geelong dates back to 7 March 1969, when a report was released by the then Geelong Regional Planning Authority. It said that the ring road could be delayed for up to 15 years. In the mid-1970s the Geelong Regional Planning Authority sponsored the Geelong Transportation Plan, which canvassed a number of options for major road construction in the area. One was for a north-south freeway along the line of Latrobe Terrace, though Geelong West and Chilwell, and another was for Aberdeen Street to be upgraded into a major road with the acquisition of 99 houses.〔 Any freeway construction through the suburbs of the city was vetoed after residents objections. The final plan advocated the construction of what became the Geelong Ring Road, although it also proposed that Latrobe Terrace become a 4-lane arterial road. In 1979 a Melbourne firm carry out acoustic testing at Wandana Heights to ascertain the impact of a freeway.〔 The alignment was finalised in 1979 and appeared as a proposed freeway in the Melway street directory for a number of years. Growing traffic volumes through the centre of Geelong led to Latrobe Terrace being converted into a major arterial road in early 1989, with the construction of a bridge over the Geelong-Melbourne railway line at its northern end, and the James Harrison Bridge over the Barwon River at its southern end.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rail Geelong: Latrobe Terrace )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geelong Ring Road」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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