Frankston Freeway

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Frankston Freeway

Frankston Freeway.jpg
Upgraded section of Frankston Freeway near EastLink
Frankston Freeway
Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne location map.svg
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North end
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South end
Coordinates
General information
Type Freeway
Length7.1 km (4.4 mi) [1]
Opened1962–1974
Route number(s) AUS Alphanumeric Route M3.svg M3 (2013–present)
Former
route number
Australian state route 11.svg Metro Route 11 (1965–2013)
Major junctions
North endAUS Alphanumeric Route M3 toll.svg EastLink
Seaford, Melbourne
 
South endAUS Alphanumeric Route M3 toll.svg Flinders Freeway
Frankston, Melbourne
Location(s)
LGA(s) City of Frankston
Major suburbs Seaford, Frankston
Highway system

Frankston Freeway is a short freeway in southern Melbourne initially designed as a bypass of central Frankston and later incorporated a freeway-style upgrade to Wells Road in the 1970s, now acting as a link from suburban Melbourne to Frankston's eastern suburbs.

Contents

Frankston Freeway is now mostly used by local traffic (as through traffic now exit EastLink onto Peninsula Link and vice versa) as an express link in and out of Frankston, the largest city near the Mornington Peninsula, bypassing other congested arterial roads linking Frankston to the rest of suburban Melbourne. Frankston Freeway connects with three other urban freeways: the EastLink tollway, Mornington Peninsula Freeway (northern section) and Peninsula Link.

Route

Frankston Freeway begins at the interchange with the northern section of Mornington Peninsula Freeway, Peninsula Link and EastLink in Carrum Downs, and heads south through Seaford parallel to the Frankston railway line until Frankston-Dandenong Road, veering south-east to terminate within the alignment of McMahons Road just south of Beach Street in the eastern suburbs of Frankston. The Eastlink tollway connects directly to its northern end, providing a freeway-standard road from Frankston north through the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Frankston Freeway has subsumed most of the former Wells Road alignment through Seaford to Klauer Street, and was originally designed to accommodate the northern section of Mornington Peninsula Freeway. Until 2013, Mornington Peninsula Freeway had a missing section (intended to bypass suburban Frankston) for decades - now built as Peninsula Link - and at the time Frankston Freeway (and later Moorooduc Highway) served as part of the missing link between the two sections of Mornington Peninsula Freeway.

History

Frankston Freeway in November 2007 Frankston Fwy N from Austin Rd Seaford 2007.jpg
Frankston Freeway in November 2007

Plans for an undivided highway between Seaford Road and Cranbourne-Frankston Road around Frankston had existed since 1950, [2] and had become known as the Frankston By-pass Road after its initial stages were constructed in the early 1960s, [3] connecting with Wells Road and continuing on to Mordialloc. The Frankston By-pass Road was renamed to Frankston Freeway, upgraded to freeway standard and extended further north in the early 1970s.

Frankston By-pass Road was signed Metropolitan Route 11 in 1965, re-routed from Wells Road when replacement stages of Frankston Freeway opened during the 1970s. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, Metropolitan Route 11 was replaced with route M3 when Peninsula Link opened in 2013.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [4] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2012, VicRoads re-declared Frankston Freeway (Freeway #1840) between Mornington Peninsula Freeway in Carrum Downs and end at the ramps to Beach Street in Frankston. [5]

The freeway has previously been congested in holiday months due to the then-missing section of Mornington Peninsula Freeway: since the construction of that section (Peninsula Link) in 2013, through traffic has reduced immensely on the Frankston Freeway. [6]

Timeline of construction

The first stage of the northern section of Mornington Peninsula Freeway - a 2km section from Armstrongs Road to Eel Race Drain - connecting to the northern end of Frankston Freeway, was opened in November 1976. [13]

Exits and interchanges

Frankston Freeway is entirely contained within the City of Frankston local government area.

Location [1] [5] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Seaford 0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route M3 toll.svg EastLink (M3 northeast)  Ringwood, Clifton Hill, City Northern freeway terminus: continues northeast as EastLink
AUS Alphanumeric Route M11.svg Mornington Peninsula Freeway (M11 north)  Dingley Village Northbound exit to and southbound entrance from M11
Rutherford Road  Carrum Downs Southbound exit only
2.91.8Seaford Road  Skye, Seaford
Seaford–Frankston boundary5.23.2Australian state route 9.svg Frankston-Dandenong Road (Metro Route 9)  Dandenong, Frankston Southbound entry via Skye Road
Frankston6.94.3Beach Street  Frankston Northbound exit and southbound entrance only
7.14.4AUS Alphanumeric Route C777.svg McMahons Road (C777 south)  Somerville, Hastings Southern freeway terminus; continues south as McMahons Road

See also

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