Significant arterial road and freeway improvements projects planned, recently completed or underway for inner Melbourne include:
The Monash-CityLink-West Gate upgrade is a $1.39 billion project to improve traffic flow and safety along the M1 freeway corridor.
The upgrade includes additional lanes between Williamstown and Dandenong, improving entry/exit points and a new intelligent freeway management system from Werribee to Narre Warren.
As part of the $116 million first stage of the Dynon Port Rail Link project a new elevated road has been built to carry Footscray Road traffic over two new rail lines which will provide direct rail access to Swanson and Appleton Docks in the Port of Melbourne
The improved rail link and associated works have separated road and rail traffic to ease a major road and rail bottleneck. The project was managed by the Victorian Department of Transport.
Construction started: August 2007 Completed: March 2009
Contractor: Leighton Contractors
Funding: Australian Government - Auslink, State Government and Port of Melbourne Corporation.