Summer road construction blitz across Melbourne’s South East
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Stage 1
30km of extra traffic lanes added to the Monash Freeway as part of Stage 1. We widened the freeway from:
- four to 5 lanes in each direction, between EastLink interchange and South Gippsland Freeway
- two to 3 lanes in each direction, between South Gippsland Freeway and Clyde Road in Berwick.
Stage 2
For Stage 2, we:
- added 36km of new lanes on the Monash and Princes Freeways, between:
- Warrigal Road and EastLink outbound
- EastLink to Springvale Road inbound
- Clyde Road to Cardinia Road, in both directions.
- connected Police Road to the freeway with an outbound entry-ramp
- connected the Jacksons Road outbound ramps directly to EastLink with a separate road
- upgraded the Beaconsfield interchange to a diamond interchange, and added an inbound freeway exit-ramp and an outbound freeway entry-ramp
- opened the new O’Shea Road extension between Soldiers Road and Princes Freeway
- built a shared walking and cycling path along O’Shea Road between Clyde Road, Berwick and the Princes Highway, Beaconsfield.
Project map
View a larger version of the Monash Freeway upgrade project overview map (PDF, 527.1 KB).
Timeline
Work started on Stage 1 of the Monash Freeway Upgrade in September 2016 and was completed in June 2018.
Construction started for Stage 2 in early 2020 and was completed end of 2022.
Video
See our video showing works completed as part of Stage 2 of the Monash Freeway Upgrade.