Frankston Freeway
| Frankston Freeway | |
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Proposed  to replace [citation needed] |
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| Length | 7 km (4 mi) |
| Direction | North-South |
| From | EastLink, Carrum Downs, Melbourne |
| Major suburbs | Seaford |
| To | Moorooduc Highway, Frankston, Melbourne |
| Major junctions | Mornington Peninsula Freeway Dandenong Valley Highway
for full list see Exits and Interchanges |
Frankston Freeway is a very short stretch of Melbourne freeway that was designed to upgrade Wells Road to freeway standard in the 1970s and provides a link from suburban Melbourne to Frankston. The freeway is commonly congested in holiday months due to the omission of the Frankston Bypass, but that bypass is now being built as part of the Peninsula Link project to be completed in 2013.
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[edit] History
In the early 1960s the Frankston Freeway was known as the Wells Road Bypass, an undivided highway between Frankston-Cranbourne Road and Seaford Road. It then continued on to Mordialloc as Wells Road. The Wells Road Bypass was upgraded to freeway standard in the early 1970s and by around 1980 the rest of the freeway was constructed to Springvale Road alongside the existing Wells Road.
With the route numbering conversion of the freeway, it was initially going to be changed to 
after the completion of EastLink in 2008, although plans fell through and the route was retained as ). However with the construction and completion of the Peninsula Link in the coming years, it will be replaced with [citation needed], with the Peninsula Link and Mornington Peninsula Freeway signed as [citation needed].
[edit] Route
The Frankston Freeway was designed to accommodate Mornington Peninsula Freeway from the northern section, and it has had a missing Frankston Bypass for decades (Vicroads having decided that traffic on the route was not heavy enough to merit a Frankston Bypass, the middle section of the freeway), and at this stage the Frankston Freeway serves as the missing link between the two Mornington Peninsula Freeways.
The Frankston Freeway begins in Carrum Downs south until Cranbourne Road, as the incomplete section of the actual Mornington Peninsula Freeway, which bypasses Frankston, swings off to the south east. The newly-completed Eastlink toll road is continuous with the Carrum Downs end of the Frankston Freeway, providing a freeway standard road north through the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne to the Eastern end of the Eastern Freeway, and beyond.
The freeway is generally parallel to Nepean Highway along the route including the Mornington Peninsula Freeway and Moorooduc Highway.
[edit] Exits and Interchanges
| Frankston Freeway |
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| Northbound exits | Distance to Melbourne (km) |
Distance to Frankston (km) |
Southbound exits |
| End Frankston Freeway continues as EastLink to Melbourne  |
47 | 5 | Start Frankston Freeway from EastLink and Mornington Peninsula Freeway |
| Springvale, Mordialloc Mornington Peninsula Freeway |
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| Seaford, Skye Seaford Road |
49 | 3 | Skye, Seaford Seaford Road |
| Frankston, Dandenong Dandenong Valley Highway |
51 | 1 | Dandenong, Frankston Dandenong Valley Highway |
| Northbound exits | Distance to Melbourne (km) |
Distance to Portsea (km) |
Southbound exits |
| Beach Street | 54 | 56 | no exit |
| Start Frankston Freeway |
End Frankston Freeway |
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
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