Overview
Planning is underway for an upgrade to Central Avenue between Lunn Court and Skehan Boulevard in Altona Meadows. Extra lanes will be added to improve safety, reduce travel times and cater for population growth.
Planning update
Key activities will include:
- detailed traffic analysis and modelling, to better understand the future growth of the area and the demand this will place on the road network
- on-site investigations to test the condition of the ground and the quality of the existing road surface
- environmental investigations to understand flora, fauna and tree species
- investigations to map utility services above and below the ground
- developing a detailed project design.
Construction timelines will be known once our planning has progressed further.
Technical investigations
To help inform planning, we need to complete further technical investigations. At times during these investigations, we may need to temporarily close lanes, stop/slow traffic and reduce speeds. We’ll keep traffic disruption to a minimum and avoid busy periods, where possible.
Community and business feedback
From 13 March to 2 April 2023, we asked for community and business feedback via Engage Victoria to help inform our planning. Thank you to everyone who took the time to provide feedback.
Feedback identified strong support to add extra lanes along Central Avenue, noted the need to add safe pedestrian crossing locations along Central Avenue and add traffic lights to the Central Avenue and Skehan Boulevard intersection to improve safety.
For more information read the Community and Business Consultation Summary (PDF, 6.5 MB).