Drivers are enjoying enhanced travel safety and reliability in Wollert thanks to the Epping Road Upgrade completing improvements to a pair of key intersections in time for the start of 2025.
Pine Park Drive and Harvest Home Road east reopened in December 2024 after major works were completed to upgrade the intersections at Epping Road.
The improvements at each intersection include a new traffic island, street lighting, traffic lights and turning lanes. As well as upgraded existing lanes, kerbs and medians.
The improvements represent a big step toward the Epping Road Upgrade achieving its goal of safer and more-reliable travel for all the road’s users.
The reopening of Pine Park Drive and Harvest Home Road came hot on the heels of traffic moving to a section of the project’s new southbound lanes for the first time.
Traffic began using these lanes, between Craigieburn Road East and Harvest Home Road, on Friday 13 December in another major milestone for the Epping Road Upgrade.
All intersection upgrades on the east side of Epping Road will be completed when Park Street reopens in late February 2025.
The improvements at Park Street will include new turning lanes onto Epping Road’s new southbound lanes, and the upgrading of the intersection’s existing lanes, kerbs and medians.
Major works to upgrade key intersections on the road’s west side are set to begin early this year.
Along with upgrading intersections, the Epping Road Upgrade is adding lanes in each direction and improving connections for pedestrians and cyclists between Craigieburn Road East and Memorial Avenue.
The project’s improvements will provide safer, more-reliable journeys for the 35,000 drivers who use the road daily between Wollert and Epping in Melbourne’s north.
The upgrade is due for completion in late 2025.
Find out more about the Epping Road Upgrade.