Airport Drive (Melbourne)
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Airport Drive | |
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Coordinates |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 5.7 km (3.5 mi)[1] |
Opened | 1997–2015 |
Major junctions | |
North end | Centre Road Melbourne Airport |
South end | |
Highway system | |
Airport Drive is a 5.7 kilometre highway in Melbourne, Australia, linking Centre Road at Melbourne Airport with the M80 Ring Road at Airport West. This road is an important thoroughfare for the adjacent Melbourne Airport Business Park along South Centre Road, and as an alternative to the nearby Tullamarine Freeway. Airport Drive originally opened to traffic in May 1997, and was declared a freeway under the Road Management Act of 2004.[2]
In July 2013, construction began on an extension of Airport Drive from Sharps Road at Tullamarine to the intersection of Melrose Drive and Mercer Drive, Melbourne Airport. The Airport Drive Extension opened to traffic in July 2015, with the existing roadway between Mercer Drive and Centre Road renamed as Airport Drive.[3] As part of the extension project, Link Road was realigned to form a new traffic light intersection at Airport Drive, with through traffic connecting to Watson Drive and Melrose Drive. The extension is classified as an arterial road, rather than as a freeway.
Intersections
LGA | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes | |
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Hume | Melbourne Airport | 0 | 0.0 | Centre Road | Traffic light intersection: continues as Grants Road | |
0.6 | 0.37 | T4 Transport Hub access road | No southbound access | |||
0.7 | 0.43 | Tullamarine Freeway (M2) north-eastbound / Apac Drive south-westbound | Traffic light intersection | |||
1.3 | 0.81 | Francis Briggs Drive south-westbound / Mercer Road north-eastbound | Roundabout: no access to Mercer Road | |||
2.5 | 1.6 | Link Road - to Melrose Drive – Tullamarine | Traffic light intersection | |||
3 | 1.9 | Sky Road | No southbound access | |||
Brimbank | Melbourne Airport–Tullamarine boundary | 4.1 | 2.5 | Sharps Road (State Route 39) – Keilor Park, Gladstone Park, Mickleham | Traffic light intersection | |
Tullamarine | 5.4 | 3.4 | Western Ring Road (M80) north-eastbound to Hume Freeway | Dogbone interchange | ||
5.7 | 3.5 | Western Ring Road (M80) south-westbound to Princes Freeway / Westfield Drive – Airport West | ||||
See also
References
- ^ a b "Airport Drive (Melbourne)" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
- ^ MRV: Airport Connection Road Main Roads Victoria. 6 October 2008. Retrieved 21 September 2009.[self-published source]
- ^ Choahan, Neelima (29 June 2015). "Melbourne Airport Drive extension opened". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 4 June 2017.