EastLink, Melbourne

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For other meanings, see Eastlink (disambiguation).

EastLink will be a tollway linking a large area of Melbourne's eastern and south-eastern suburbs. It is a part of Melbourne's Metropolitan Ring Road project.

Originally known as the 'Mitcham-Frankston Freeway', it will begin from the eastern end of the Eastern Freeway at Mitcham, tunnelling under the environmentally-sensitive Mullum-Mullum Creek area, heading towards Ringwood. It will then travel 40 km south towards Frankston, going through the suburbs Wantirna, Wantirna South, Scoresby, Rowville, Mulgrave, Dandenong North, Noble Park, Keysborough, Dandenong South, Bangholme, and Carrum Downs, before ending at the northern end of the Frankston Freeway.

The new name of EastLink was announced by Premier Steve Bracks at a ceremony in Rowville, on 25 March 2005. The new name was reportly chosen because it is easier to say, remember and fit on the Melway street directories. It is likely that the name was inspired by that of CityLink, Melbourne's only other toll road (see note on tolling below).

EastLink will be electronically tolled, using a system similar to the one used on the CityLink freeway.

In 2004, the project fell under the management of a newly formed SEITA; the South Eastern Integrated Transport Authority. This is the face of the ConnectEast consortium, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) set up to fund the project at no initial cost to the government, but that could be controlled more strictly, unlike Transurban that constructed CityLink.

EastLink's construction began in March 2005, and is scheduled for completion in 2008.

EastLink was combined into a single project from the Eastern Freeway Extension Tunnel and the Scoresby Freeway projects by the Victorian State Government in 2003.

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Shared pedestrian/bicycle path

A shared walking/cycle path is also planned to follow the same route as the EastLink project. According to SEITA, once complete, cyclists and pedestrians will be able to cycle or walk the entire distance uninterrupted along a 3 metre wide dedicated path.

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Interchanges

The proposed interchanges of this new tollway include:

^ indicates that there is no official/formal name for this road yet.

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See also

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External links

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