Highway link for Melbourne, Australia

Plans are now well in hand in Australia for the US$4.04 billion Western Distributor Project in Victoria, due for completion in 2022. The project will be built under a new partnership between the Victorian state government and Transurban. The road project is supported by the Victorian Transport Association and will connect the West Gate Freeway to CityLink. The new route will help reduce the numbers of HGVs using the West Gate Bridge and will also upgrade the link to the Port of Melbourne. The project calls
December 9, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
Plans are now well in hand in Australia for the US$4.04 billion Western Distributor Project in Victoria, due for completion in 2022. The project will be built under a new partnership between the Victorian state government and 891 Transurban. The road project is supported by the Victorian Transport Association and will connect the West Gate Freeway to CityLink. The new route will help reduce the numbers of HGVs using the West Gate Bridge and will also upgrade the link to the Port of Melbourne. The project calls for the West Gate Freeway to be widened to 12 lanes from eight, between the M80 and Williamstown Road. In addition, a tunnel will be constructed under Yarraville. Other aspects include the construction of an elevated section along Footscray Road, a second river crossing over the Maribyrnong and a 4.5km of pedestrian and cycling paths. Funding for the project will come from state and federal sources and an extension of Transurban's CityLink concession as well as a toll on the new road.
Finance & Funding Road Structures

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Australia’s costly A$26 billion East Link Project
    February 5, 2025
    Australia’s East Link Project in Victoria will now cost as much as A$26 billion.
    Read More
  • Australia: Consortium ready to abandon Melbourne’s East West Link
    March 10, 2015
    The East West Connect consortium is set to abandon Melbourne’s East West Link contract in return for a payment of between US$400 million and $535 million, according to media reports. But the Victoria state government is challenging the claim by East West Connect whose partners include Lend Lease, Acciona, Capella Capital and Bouygues. Instead, the government wants East West to payback around $153 million which the consortium allegedly received when the toll road contract was signed, reported the Herald Sun
    Read More
  • Private consortium to finance Melbourne's Peninsula Link highway
    July 13, 2012
    Not long after the recent completion of the successful EastLink project (a 39km motorway providing a vital connection for 1.5 million people in Melbourne, Australia) the Victorian Government has started work on another missing link in Melbourne's freeway network further south with the construction of Peninsula Link. Peninsula Link is a key project in the Victorian Government's AUD$38 billion (US$32 billion) Victorian Transport Plan. With a AUD$750 million (US$630 million) price tag, the project is expected
    Read More
  • Key Australian road projects underway
    December 19, 2014
    In Western Australia plans are in hand for the new Perth freight link. This will run between Muchea and Fremantle, and it will start with the Roe 8 project and extend Roe Highway through to Stock Road. The route will remove some 500 trucks/day from the Leach Highway, helping cut congestion. The project will cost around US$1.3 billion (A$1.6 billion), with funding split between the Western Australia State Government and the Federal Government. The route should be complete in 2016. Also in Australia, work has
    Read More

Highlighted Content