Reduced travel times are in sight for people who use Mickleham Road to access the M80 or Tullamarine Freeway.
The busy Mickleham Road interchange will be upgraded as part of a $1.3 billion widening of the Tullamarine Freeway, according to a plan announced last Friday by Sunbury MP Josh Bull.
“We all know how unsafe the traffic weaving and stop-start conditions are as the cars are trying to get off and on to the freeway,” Mr Bull said.
The upgrade will ensure residents who live in the north-west are able to access the Tullamarine Freeway more quickly and safely.
An additional lane will be added from Mickleham Road to the M80 and another lane from the Tullamarine Freeway to the M80 will be elevated to cross over Mickleham Road.
A new lane will be built for Mickleham Road at the entrance to the Tullamarine Freeway to increase capacity.
During peak hour, the Mickleham Road entrance to the Tullamarine Freeway is known to bank up for kilometres as drivers head into the city.
Motorists are forced to weave in and out of lanes as they try to get off the Tullamarine Freeway and on to the M80 or on to the Tulla from Mickleham Road. The new lanes will separate these motorists.
The project is just one aspect of CityLink’s Tulla Widening project, which involves upgrading 23.8 kilometres of the CityLink Tullamarine Freeway corridor between Melbourne Airport and Power Street in Southbank.
The corridor is one of Melbourne’s most heavily used routes, carrying about 210,000 cars and trucks every day.
The project is expected to increase the route’s capacity by up to 30 per cent and reduce travel times by as much as 17 per cent in peak travel periods.
Public information sessions to detail the changes will be held in coming months.
