Geelong Ring Road
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Geelong Ring Road Victoria |
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| Looking south from the Midland Highway along section 2 towards the Lewis Bandt Bridge and Waurn Ponds | |
| Type | Freeway |
| Length | 27 km (17 mi) |
| Opened | 2008-2013 |
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| NE end | |
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for full list see exits and interchanges |
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| SW end |
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| Major suburbs / towns | Lovely Banks, Bell Post Hill, Hamlyn Heights, Fyansford, Wandana Heights, Waurn Ponds |
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Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria |
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(2008-present)
for full list see exits and interchanges
The Geelong Ring Road (formerly known as the Geelong Bypass and the Geelong Outer Freeway) is a freeway ring road in Australia that extends for 27 km (17 mi) beside Geelong's western suburbs from the Princes Freeway at Corio to the Princes Highway at Waurn Ponds. It also connects to the Midland Highway towards Ballarat, and the Hamilton Highway. Sections one and two were officially opened 14 December 2008, with section three on 14 June 2009. Section four recently opened in January 2013 extending to the Princes Highway at Mount Moriac, which now avoids the narrow and windy road from Waurn Ponds towards Winchelsea.
One of the first plans for a ring road of Geelong dates back to 7 March 1969, when a report was released by the then Geelong Regional Planning Authority. It said that the ring road could be delayed for up to 15 years.
In the mid-1970s the Geelong Regional Planning Authority sponsored the Geelong Transportation Plan, which canvassed a number of options for major road construction in the area. One was for a north-south freeway along the line of Latrobe Terrace, though Geelong West and Chilwell, and another was for Aberdeen Street to be upgraded into a major road with the acquisition of 99 houses. Any freeway construction through the suburbs of the city was vetoed after residents objections. The final plan advocated the construction of what became the Geelong Ring Road, although it also proposed that Latrobe Terrace become a 4-lane arterial road.
In 1979 a Melbourne firm carry out acoustic testing at Wandana Heights to ascertain the impact of a freeway. The alignment was finalised in 1979 and appeared as a proposed freeway in the Melway street directory for a number of years.
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