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| end_b = | est = | through = Nhill, Dimboola, Horsham, Stawell, Ararat, Beaufort | route = | former = | exits = | location =Location Western Hwy.svg }} The Western Highway is part of the principal route linking the Australian cities of Melbourne and Adelaide with a length of approximately 314 kilometres. It is a part of the National Highway network and designated as National Highway A8. The eastern end continues on as the Western Freeway at Beaufort, and the western end continues beyond the Victorian border as Dukes Highway, the other sections of the Melbourne–Adelaide National Highway. The Western Highway is the second busiest national highway in Australia, in terms of freight movements, with over five million tonnes annually. It provides the critical link between the eastern seaboard and South Australia and Western Australia. The towns along the way, including Ballarat, Ararat, Stawell and Horsham, are major agricultural and manufacturing centres. == Route == The Western Highway begins at the Victorian–South Australian border, east of Bordertown. It is mainly a high quality single carriageway from there to just outside the Melbourne side of Beaufort, Victoria, with adequate numbers of overtaking lanes. However, the highway does pass through several agricultural centres, for example Horsham, Victoria, slowing down traffic significantly. Just east of Beaufort, the Western Highway becomes the Western Freeway, adopting freeway standards with two lanes running each way, and begins bypassing most of the towns the old alignment of the highway used to serve. The newest section of freeway standard dual carriageway (25 km in length) opened on 6 March 2015. This runs between the end of the Ballarat bypass between a new flyover/interchange with the C805 (Avenue of Remembrance, Burrumbeet) to just outside Beaufort (including a bypass of Trawalla) providing 156 km of freeway standard road between Melbourne and Beaufort. Plans are underway for the end of this freeway to be extended from the current terminus just outside Beaufort westward towards Ararat and eventually to Stawell. Part of the Beaufort to Ararat section is now under construction 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 Highway (Victoria)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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