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List Of Melbourne FreewaysMelbourne is served by a freeway network which is the earliest and the most extensive in Australia. History As early Melbourne grew beyond the Hoddle Grid, the city stretched out in fingers along rail and tram lines, often with bits and pieces of open country in between. In the 1950's and 1960's, as private car ownership rose, beyond the limits of tram and rail lines, newer suburbs were built. This led to congestions between the suburbs and the CBD. As Melbourne extended, planners and politicians decided that the roads could no longer cope. The 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan calls for construction of an extensive network of freeways. The Victorian government were advised by American highway planners and it sent its road engineers to US. The resulting network is probably the most extensive in Australia. As Melbourne has an excellent public transport network, opposition to the plan grew, arguing that money is better spent on public transport upgrade. This led to clashes including the showdown in 1977, over the plan to push the F19 freeway through Collingwood and Fitzroy. In the fiercest battle, protesters barricaded Alexander Parade. Although the resulting Eastern Freeway was finally built, many road projects were shelved and freeway building largely went quiet until the mid 1990s. Freeway contruction was resumed in the 1990s; for example Western Ring Road, CityLink and others. These freeways joined the others into a continious and extensive network. Impacts on Melbourne Where they were built, population growth followed, as Melburnians moved away from the crowded inner and middle suburbs to cheaper outer suburbs; for example, Monash Freeway and Mornington Peninsula Freeway led to explosive growth of population in the south east and the Mornington Peninsula.The completion of Western Ring Road spurred massive industrial growth in the western suburbs. Melburnians in general are divided over the freeways; supporters crying "progress and growth" and detractors lamenting for example, the destruction of habitats and the loss of peace and tranquility along the freeway path and at the ends where the freeway traffic is spilled onto local roads. However, freeways have become as much a part of Melbourne landscape as the trams and the tramlines. Ironically, this made Melbourne the best city in Australia for both public transport and road network. Network Here is the list of freeways that forms the Melbourne network: - Calder Freeway, M79
- CityLink, M1/Metro 40/43
- Dingley Freeway !
- Eastern Freeway, Metro 83
- Frankston Freeway, Metro 11
- Hume Freeway, M31
- Healesville Freeway !
- Metropolitan Ring Road, M80
- Mitcham-Frankston Freeway (previously proposed as Scoresby Freeway) ^
- Monash Freeway (previously known as the South-Eastern Freeway and Mulgrave Freeway), M1
- Mornington Peninsula Freeway, Metro 11
- Princes Freeway, M1
- South Gippsland Freeway, M420
- Tullamarine Freeway, Metro 40/43/State 79
- West Gate Freeway, M1
- Western Freeway, M8
- Western Ring Road, M80
^ indicates that this freeway is under construction. ! indicates that this freeway is proposed. See also List of Melbourne highways
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