Morwell

Princes Highway Melbourne to Traralgon A bypass for 1PJ Other projects and planning proposals on this highway are:

Caulfield/Malvern •l. X •— a* *. • Duplication between Hawthorn Road andTooronga Road ffl / * opened on the 20 December 1989ata cost of $16 million. m M&w *LAI4I i A 5t t'l I J* - i » Garfield to Bunyip River v< Duplication of 8 km between Garfield and Bunyip River opened on 2 June 1989 at a cost of $15 million. - 4 - . * \ Longwarry r X H 3l4 #?1 Duplication will extend from Bunyip River to the Bypass «rT of Drouin at Robin Hood. Estimated cost is $24 million 1 and completion is expected 1994. I 1 L. East of Darnuin to Moe - / 45" ' E ■ N. .t ' > r Various options have been evaluated for duplication of V hr the highway between Moe River east of Darnum, and the a* t - * 1 Old Gippstown Interchange at Moe. VIC ROADS is now < carryingouta planningand consultation processon this ftwr - Council, i i section with the Narracan Shire other inter¬ n r ested agencies and the public. ■ ' ■ a- rJ f,rc 7/. I- Photographs: left Federal Transport Minister, Bob r f W‘ 1 - . • «» Brown, inspects the mural inside the pedestrian underpass I \i ' 5 y» ifi at the Dandenong Road duplication in Caulfield. Below • jpt the first traffic on the Garfield to Bunyip River project ** Additional information about A Vv«"4i , , ll .. after the official opening in June, 1989. s \ H. i ' Morwell Bypass M< r ! Contact: SIM® yi I Project Manager i i J i Mr Russell Bittner VIC ROADS Commercial Road Morwell 3840

Telephone (051) 348 777 i Hi f- / SP--5 • t V* 4 Additional information about ■g \, projects on the % • as- ggVl •- Princes Highway i $ Morwell Contact:

VIC ROADS # / Corporate Affairs -I* 60 Street * Denmark * . Kew Vic 3101 0 vieroads A April 1990 GROWING TOGETHER vieroads A Q 5 Q i $ '1 S % 3 & Q $ iÿe a, pBlNCES '1 if i \s© £ 8 M 5 -J 'V 3D& Morwell HIGHWAY 7/ a bypass for .QS/ // f7 £ ,*/ CQ£ g // P0ÿ I && / a Sr Q o Gippsland. With the continuing development of the ! i * brown coal resources of the Latrobe Valley, the highway - Route No. * METRES 5 # STAGE 1 SECaWORKS 1 is increasingly important to the Victorian economy as a whole as - AREA £ well as to Gippsland itself. / STAGE 2 c: £ X, 5 i The Princes Highway between Dandenong and Traralgon is currently % one of the busiest rural highways in the State and VIC ROADS is OPEN CUT MINE 3 working towards upgrading this section to dual carriageway. o\ $ As part of this development VIC ROADS is constructing a bypass of & Morwell, 150 km south-east of Melbourne. Morwell is a growing provincial town in the centre of the Latrobe Valley with a population of 65,000 people within a 25 km radius.

a% Why the bypass is needed Road and the Princes Highway, and Stage Two: work began early 1990 Currently the Princes Highway carries ap¬ The bypass will reduce travel This 6.4 km section will be com¬ Planting of trees and shrubs to bridges will be constructed at Tram- and is expected to be completed in proximately 20,000 vehicles per day through time for motoristsand truckdriv¬ pleted in April 1990. Interchanges reinforce and complement lo¬ way Road and the Eastern Railway 1992. ers and will remove through will be provided at the Morwell- cal species, particularly in Eu¬ MorwelTs commercial centre. line traffic from the commercial Thorpdale Road. Commercial calyptus Yarraensis (Yarra Gum); As the Latrobe Valley is an expanding indus¬ centre. Consequently Morwell Road and the Midland Highway. Other features Cost trial area, and as tourism to eastern Gippsland will have safer and more con¬ Eight bridges and five large cul¬ and south-eastern N.S.W. develops, this vol¬ venient conditions for shoppers verts have been constructed. The bypass is a federally funded Na¬ Landscaping including use of The pavement will be 650 mm ume could be expected to increase in future and pedestrians, and improved Bridges are located at: tional Roads project with an estimated noise mounding and planting thick and the top 400 mm will years. driving conditions for local traf- total cost including planning and de¬ to reduce visual and noise in¬ be placed using an automated fic. Morwell River (eastbound sign of $61 million. trusion. Some planting has paving machine; carriageway); already been undertaken along is?* • is 10,000 Stage 1 $38 million ($30 million the edges of the road reserve. -i. '1 It estimated that ve¬ Substantialground settlements hiclesperday will use thebypass Morwell-Thorpdale Road construction) take place in the area as a .2* when it is completed. Overpass; - _ 4*2*4 result of open cut coal extrac¬ * Stage 2 $23 million ($20 million r tion, and this has been pro¬ p' Commercial Road (twin construction) vl . - Project vided for in the design of struc¬ 5 / The structure): —Jr tures; fp The 10 km bypass extends from . Over the railwaylinesserv¬ the Morwell River in the west, Special consideration has been The Environment ing the briquette plant and pass between the township and given to peak traffic volumes r the open cuts (twin struc¬ % the SEC works area, to link with on the access roads to the SEC The bypass has been designed toform the Princes Highway east of Al¬ ture) works area. an attractive feature within the local v. exanders Road. environment and the landscaping is Photographs Stage Two: Midland Highway to : being co-ordinated with the SEC and •wJydt .$V east of Alexanders Road Cover aerial view of the project. It is being built in two stages: Timetable the MorwellShire. In association with Left aerial view of Stage 2 be - the engineering design of the bypass. Stage One: work began early in 1985 tween Midland Highwayand east VL Stage One: west of Morwell to Interchanges on this 3.8 km sec¬ the following features are being incor¬ ' and will be completed in April 1990. of Alexanders Road. the Midland Highway tion will be located at Tramway porated: o*-