Donnybrook Road Upgrade

We’re progressing planning for future upgrades of Donnybrook Road between Mickleham Road, Mickleham and Epping Road, Woodstock.

As part of our planning, we’re investigating solutions to reduce travel times, improve safety, cater for population growth and increased vehicle movements.

Options being explored include:

• adding more road lanes
• upgrading intersections
• upgrading the Hume Freeway Interchange
• removing the Donnybrook Road level crossing
• building cycling and walking paths to improve connectivity.

Planning

Planning work includes traffic modelling, engineering designs, ease of construction assessments, economic modelling, and environmental investigations. Our planning work is building on work previously undertaken by Transport Victoria.

This work will give us a complete picture of the area, allow us to understand environmental and social impacts, develop project options, and determine costs of different options to help inform government decision-making.

This project is currently in the planning phase and will be used to inform government decisions on funding for future upgrades along Donnybrook Road. We expect our initial planning work to be complete in late 2025.

Community feedback

From 23 June to 13 July 2025, we asked for community feedback to help inform our planning.

6795 responses were received to our polls, 744 comments were provided on our interactive map, and 139 people attended our 3 community pop-ups.

Feedback has provided important local insights that has helped us to understand community views on safety, traffic flow and what we should consider in our planning.

• The top two improvements that respondents would like considered is more road lanes and upgrades to the Hume Freeway Interchange.
• Respondents identified Polaris Road to English Street as the highest priority section of Donnybrook Road to upgrade. There was strong support to add new lanes to the Donnybrook Road bridge over the Hume Freeway and to upgrade the Donnybrook Road and Mitchell Street intersection.
• Feedback highlighted support for upgrading intersections (including Brookville Drive, Mitchell Street and Willaroy Boulevard) and the need to improve street lighting along the road.
• Respondents highlighted support for adding walking and cycling paths to improve connections between residential estates, schools and public transport.

For further information on “what you’ve said” view the Community Consultation Report (PDF, 945.6 KB).

Technical investigations

To help inform our planning, we’re completing roadside technical investigations. At times, we may need to implement traffic control measures, including temporary lane closures, stop/slow traffic management and reduced speeds. We’ll keep traffic disruption to a minimum and avoid busy periods.

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