The West Gate Tunnel Project’s Wurundjeri Way is now open to traffic providing a new way for people from the west to directly link into Docklands, the city and travel to the south east suburbs.
The new road connects Dynon Road in West Melbourne to Wurundjeri Way in Docklands, and will link up to the West Gate Tunnel once it opens in December.
This is Melbourne's first city bypass in 25 years, which will now help take thousands of vehicles off some of the city’s busiest thoroughfares including Spencer and King streets.
Tolls will not apply for cars on the Wurundjeri Way extension when travelling between Dynon Road and Wurundjeri Way.
Using the new Wurundjeri Way extension
Crews have built a new bridge over Dudley Street and a 1.5 km, four lane connection to Dynon Road, providing a city bypass and a more direct connection from the inner west to Docklands, the CBD and onto the south east suburbs.
In addition, Wurundjeri Way has been widened to three lanes in each direction alongside Southern Cross station through to Flinders Street.
Heading to the footy and the city
Drivers heading towards the city on Dynon Road can now use the left slip lane to get onto Wurundjeri Way extension to continue southbound to merge onto Wurundjeri Way, near Marvel Stadium to get to the game or travel into Docklands and further onto the south-eastern suburbs.
Now drivers have the option to avoid busy King and Spencer Street when travelling inbound.
Heading from Wurundjeri Way to Dynon Road
On Wurundjeri Way, drivers can head northbound towards Dudley Street, enter the right slip lane onto the new Wurundjeri Way extension and then get off at the exit on Dynon Road.
Explore your journeys using the new Wurundjeri Way extension
When the new connections from Dynon Road and Wurundjeri Way to the West Gate Tunnel open later this year, you can travel seamlessly between Geelong, Ballarat and the west to the city, the north and West Melbourne. Serving as a city bypass, the new extension will remove through traffic from the CBD including Spencer and King Street.
Heading to the footy and the city from Dynon Road
Heading to Geelong from the city
Getting to Grieve Parade and the western suburbs using the new city bypass
Getting to Ballarat from the city using the new extension
Getting to Melbourne's university and medical precincts using the new city bypass
Exiting at Millers Road for the inner west suburbs
A crucial new inner-city connection
The full benefits of the extension will be realised later this year when the West Gate Tunnel Project opens the tunnels and the new elevated road above Footscray Road, offering drivers a seamless connection from this part of Docklands into the tunnels under Yarraville to the West Gate Freeway.
Once the road network is fully opened, more than 15,000 vehicles is expected to be using the new extension, reducing traffic on busy CBD streets.
To see how your future journeys will look like using the West Gate Tunnel, use our new Explore Your Journey tool.