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| end_b = | est = | through = Trawalla, Ballarat, Ballan, Bacchus Marsh, Melton, Rockbank | route = | former = | exits = }} The Western Freeway is a 156 kilometre Australian freeway linking the state capital of Victoria (Melbourne) to the major regional city of Ballarat and on to Beaufort. Signed as M8, it used to branch off from the Western Highway (having come originally beyond the Victorian/South Australian border outside Adelaide) just outside Beaufort, and now ends officially to Melbourne's freeway network via the Western Ring Road, in the middle western suburbs of Melbourne. Both the freeway and Western Highway beyond Ballarat are part of the National Highway network for the Melbourne-Adelaide route. Plans are underway for the freeway to be extended west to Ararat, and eventually, to Stawell. The Western Freeway subsumes and bypasses most sections of the older Western Highway. Former bypassed sections of the Western Highway are generally designated sequentially from C801 to C805, or Metropolitan Route 8 (within suburban Melbourne). The Melbourne section of the Western Highway is shown in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F12 Freeway corridor. From 2013, the National Highway numbers will be replaced (over time) with a standard alphanumeric state route number. ==Timeline of duplication== *1964/65 - Ballarat East. 2.4 miles of duplicate carriageway completed east of Ballarat. No exact date given.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Fifty-Second Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1965'', Melbourne, Victoria: Government Printer, 1965. p. 16〕 *1966/67 - Deer Park to Rockbank. 7.12 miles of dual carriageways completed during financial year 1966/67.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Fifty-Fourth Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1967'', Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1968. p. 35〕 *1966/67 - Dual carriageways from Djerriwarrh Creek to Coimadai Creek completed during financial year 1966/67.〔 *1966/67 - Dual carriageways 1.83 miles east of Pykes Creek Reservoir completed during financial year 1966/67.〔 *1967/68 - Rockbank to Melton East. Construction completed of over 3 miles of dual carriageways during financial year 1967/68.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1968'', Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1969. p. 35〕 *1969 - Pykes Creek Reservoir. The ‘Western By-pass Road’ is completed, running four miles east and west of Pykes Creek Reservoir.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Fifty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1969'', Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1970. p. 6〕 *1972 - Bacchus Marsh bypass. 5.88 miles opened 30 June 1972, by the Hon. Sir Henry Bolte, GCMG, MP, at a cost of A$4.3m.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Fifty-Ninth Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1972'', Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1972. p. 7〕 *1972 - Gordon section. 5.74 miles opened 5 May 1972, by the Board’s Chairman, Mr R E V Donaldson, at a cost of A$2.2m.〔 *1973 - Pentland Hills to Myrniong section. One mile completed from Korkuperrimul Creek to the Lion Park interchange, early 1973.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Sixtieth Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1973'', Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1973. p. 5〕 *1974 - Pentland Hills section. 4.8 km ‘west of Bacchus Marsh’ opened 1974.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Sixty-First Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1974'', Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1974. p. 4〕 *1975 - Myrniong bypass opened 3 October 1975, by the Minister for Transport, the Hon E R Meagher, CBE, ED, at a cost of A$3.28m. The 5.9 km bypass of Myrniong completed ‘80km of dual carriageways between Melbourne and Ballarat’.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Sixty-Third Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1976'', Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1976〕 *1978 - Ballan bypass. 8.4 km opened 15 June 1978, by the Hon J A Rafferty, Minister for Transport, at a cost of A$9.8m.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Sixty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1978'', Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1978. p. 9〕 *1983 – Wallace and Bungaree bypass opened 9 March 1983, by the Premier of Victoria, the Hon. John Cain MP. The 11.9 km bypass cost A$23.6m.〔Country Roads Board Victoria. ''Activity Report 1982/83'', Kew, Victoria: Country Roads Board Victoria, 1983. p. 8〕 *1987 – Melton bypass. The ‘freeway work’ was opened to traffic on 7 July 1987, with the remainder of works expected to be completed by April 1988. The 8.8 km bypass cost A$44.2m.〔Road Construction Authority Victoria. ''Annual Report 1986-87'', Kew, Victoria: Road Construction Authority, Victoria, 1987. p. 64〕〔Road Construction Authority Victoria. ''Annual Report 1987-88''〕 *1993 - Ballarat bypass. The first stage, a single carriageway section from Woodmans Hill to the Midland Highway, is opened in December 1993, at a cost of A$62m.〔VicRoads. ''VicRoads Annual Report 1993-94'', Kew, Victoria: VicRoads, 1994, p. 17〕 *1994 - Ballarat bypass. The second stage of the initial 26 km single carriageway by-pass is opened to traffic in December 1994.〔VicRoads. ''VicRoads Annual Report 1994-95'', Kew, Victoria: VicRoads, 1995, p. 10〕 *1995 - Ballarat bypass. Second carriageway opened to traffic between Woodmans Hill and Gillies Street in December 1995, at a cost of A$25m.〔VicRoads. ''VicRoads Annual Report 1995-56'', Kew, Victoria: VicRoads, 1996, p. 15〕 *1998 - Ballarat bypass. The final section opened in February 1998, The final stage featured the duplication of the original single carriageway bypass from Gillies Street to the Sunraysia Highway.〔VicRoads. ''VicRoads Annual Report 1997-98'', Kew, Victoria: VicRoads, 1998, p. 32〕 *2001 - The new elevated Hopkins Road Interchange was opened to traffic on 12 July 2001, at a cost of $13.1 million. 〔Vic Roads 2001〕 Before the construction of the new interchange, the intersection of Hopkins Road (Melton-Werribee Road) with the Western Freeway at Rockbank was improved using Black Spot Program funds in 1989 and 1991, but a long term solution to the congestion and crashes at this location was the construction of an elevated interchange.〔 BUDGET 2001-2002 Media Release. John Anderson, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Transport and Regional Services. FEDERAL ROADS BUDGET FOR VICTORIA JUMPS 77 PER CENT, 2001 Budget 8 22 May 2001〕 *2009 – Deer Park bypass opened to traffic on 5 April 2009, at a cost of A$331m, jointly funded by the state and federal governments. In conjunction with these works, the new Leakes Road interchange at Rockbank was opened in August 2008.〔VicRoads. ''VicRoads Annual Report 2008-09'', Kew, Victoria: VicRoads, 2009, p. 42〕 *2011 – Anthony’s Cutting realignment. A new 5 km realignment constructed to the south of the previous section of highway, bypassing the steep grades and tight curves of the old alignment. The A$200m project was ‘mostly’ open to traffic in June 2011.〔VicRoads. ''VicRoads Annual Report 2010-11'', Kew, Victoria: VicRoads, 2011, p. 10〕 *2013 - Ballarat to Burrumbeet. 8 km duplication opened to traffic 31 January 2013.〔VicRoads. ''Annual Report 2012-13'', Kew, Victoria: VicRoads, 2013, p. 20〕 *2015 - Burrumbeet to Beaufort opened to traffic on 18 February 2015 adding a further 26 km of freeway standard dual carriageway to the existing freeway. This includes a bypass of Trawalla. 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「Western Freeway (Victoria)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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