Australian Capital Territory

Canberra region

* Majura Parkway Other freeways (no route number) * Adelaide Avenue * Yarra Glen *

Capital Circle Capital Circle is a circular road surrounding Capital Hill, Australian Capital Territory, Capital Hill in the centre of Canberra, Australia's capital city. It is one of three concentric roads on the hill, with State Circle the outermost and Pa ...

* Gungahlin Drive Extension * Parkes Way *

Tuggeranong Parkway Tuggeranong Parkway is an major highway in Canberra, Australia. Often referred to as "The Parkway" by locals, Tuggeranong Parkway links Civic to the southern Canberra metro district of Tuggeranong, and is a bypass road to the Woden Valley-W ...

Gallery

File:Highways into Canberra (6768361501).jpg, Tuggeranong Parkway

New South Wales

New South Wales has the largest number and second highest density of motorways in Australia (behind Victoria), with the majority being located in Sydney City or the metropolitan areas.

Metropolitan Sydney region (urban motorways)

* Speed limit varies between 60 km/h and 110 km/h. *

Gore Hill Freeway The Gore Hill Freeway is a divided freeway located in Sydney, New South Wales that is part of the Sydney Orbital Network and the Highway 1. The primary function of the freeway is to provide an alternative high-grade route from to and to re ...

Warringah Freeway The Warringah Freeway (also known as the Warringah Expressway) is a divided freeway located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The freeway forms part of the M1, the Sydney Orbital Network, and the Highway 1 network. The primary f ...

Sydney Harbour Tunnel The Sydney Harbour Tunnel is a twin-tube road tunnel in Sydney, Australia. The tunnel was completed and opened to traffic in August 1992 to provide a second vehicular crossing of Sydney Harbour to alleviate congestion on the Sydney Harbour Bri ...

(tolled for southbound traffic) *

Cahill Expressway The Cahill Expressway is an urban freeway in Sydney and was the first freeway constructed in Australia, opening to traffic in 1958. It starts from the Eastern Distributor and Cross City Tunnel in Woolloomooloo, and runs through a series of ...

Eastern Distributor The Eastern Distributor is a motorway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Part of the M1, the motorway links the Sydney central business district with Sydney Airport. The centre-piece is a tunnel running from Woolloomooloo to Surry Hi ...

(tolled for northbound traffic) *

Southern Cross Drive :''Distinguish from the road of the same name in Cape Town, South Africa, on the eastern side of Table Mountain.'' The Southern Cross Drive is a dual carriage untolled motorway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Part of the M1 and ...

General Holmes Drive General Holmes Drive is a major divided road located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The road forms part of the M1, the A1, the Sydney Orbital Network, and the Australian Highway 1 network. Initially built in 1919 as a two-lane roa ...

, the Airport Tunnel *

Lane Cove Tunnel The Lane Cove Tunnel is an A$1.1 billion, 3.6 km twin-tunnel tollway in Sydney, Australia, which connects the M2 Motorway at North Ryde with the Gore Hill Freeway at Artarmon. It is owned by toll road operator Transurban and forms ...

(tolled) *

M2 Hills Motorway The Hills Motorway (also known as the Hills M2 Motorway, M2 Motorway or simply M2) is a tollway in north-western Sydney, Australia, owned by toll road operator Transurban. It forms majority of Sydney's M2 route and part of the 110 km Syd ...

* Mona Vale Rd (St Ives to Belrose, freeways grade road) * Homebush Bay Drive (Freeway grade for southbound only) * M4 Western Motorway (tolled east of Church Street,

Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban ...

) *

M4 East The M4 Motorway is a dual carriageway partially Road pricing, tolled motorway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that is designated as the M4 route. The M4 designation is part of the wider A4/M4 (Sydney), A4 and M4 route designation, the M ...

(tolled) * Rozelle Interchange (Opening 2023) * Anzac Bridge * Western Distributor Freeway *

Bradfield Highway (Sydney) The Bradfield Highway is a highway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. At long it is one of the shortest highways in Australia. The highway was opened on 19 March 1932 and was named in honour of Dr John Bradfield. As a government-appoint ...

(toll) * M5 South-West Motorway (tolled East of Heathcote Road, Liverpool and on Belmore Road Exit) * M5 East Motorway (tolled) * Westlink M7 Motorway (tolled) * Westconnex M8 Motorway (tolled) * Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation * The Northern Road (Oran Park to Bringelly, freeway grade road as part of the Northern Road Upgrades)
* James Ruse Drive (North of Hassall Street) *Gladesville Bridge, Hunters Hill – This route was built as part of the F3 but cancelled. * M31 Hume Motorway (Urban Motorway from M5/M7 up to Campbelltown) * Warringah Road Underpass Unnumbered freeway grade roads *

Cross City Tunnel The Cross City Tunnel is a twin-road tunnel tollway located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The tunnel links Darling Harbour on the western fringe of the central business district to Rushcutters Bay in the Eastern Suburbs. Each of t ...

(tolled) * NorthConnex (tolled) * Burns Bay Road (South of Lane Cove West) – This route was built as part of the F3 but cancelled. * Captain Cook Bridge, New South Wales – The only bit of F6 inside Sydney as a proposed extension but cancelled *Syd Einfield Road (The only part of F7)

Hunter and Central Coast region (rural and urban motorways)

* Speed limit varies between 60 km/h and 110 km/h. * M1 Pacific Motorway (Sydney to Newcastle) (Formerly known as the ) *

Hunter Expressway The Hunter Expressway is a long controlled-access highway in New South Wales, Australia. It was previously known as the F3 to Branxton link or Kurri Kurri Corridor during the planning stage. It has two lanes in each direction, running generally ...

* A37 Newcastle Inner City Bypass * Teal Street and Stockton Bridge (Freeway Grade Road) * Nelson Bay Road – 30% of this road is freeway grade (See full freeway grade route her

*

New England Highway New England Highway is an long highway in Australia running from Yarraman, north of Toowoomba, Queensland at its northern end to Hexham at Newcastle, New South Wales at its southern end. It is part of Australia's National Highway system, ...

(Maitland–

Hexham Hexham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the south bank of the River Tyne, formed by the confluence of the North Tyne and the South Tyne at Warden nearby, and close to Hadrian's Wall. Hexham was the administ ...

) * Motorway Link road ( only, not part of ) * Pacific Highway ( only, not part of ) – See full freeway route her

South Coast region (rural and urban motorways)

* Princes Motorway, M1 Princes Motorway * Memorial Drive (Wollongong) – Most of this road is freeway grade – (The south 4 km of the road and the north 3 km of the road are, the central bit isn't though) *

Princes Highway Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It has a length of (along Highway 1) or via the former alignments of the hig ...

, 16% of which is of motorway or dual carriageway standard.

Rural region (rural motorways)

* Speed limit varies between 90 km/h and 110 km/h. * Pacific Motorway (Northern NSW, from Ballina to QLD border) * Pacific Highway, 100% of which is of motorway or dual carriageway standard, except for through Coffs Harbour and between Beresfield to Raymond Terrace – but still two lanes as arterial standards in each direction. *

Federal Highway Federal Highways and Federal Routes can be found in: *Australia: Federal Highway *Brazil: Brazilian Federal Highway and Brazilian Highway System *Germany: ''Bundesstraßen'' *Malaysia: Federal Highway and Malaysian Federal Roads System *Mexic ...

* Barton Highway – 21% of which is of motorway or dual carriageway standard, with the remainder under construction and proposed for completion by the end of 2023. See freeway route her

* Hume Highway, Hume Motorway *

Hume Highway Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route ...

, 100% of which is dual carriageway standard. *

Great Western Highway Great Western Highway (also known as Broadway from to , Parramatta Road from Chippendale to , and Church Street through Parramatta) is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. From east to west, the highway links Sydney with Bathu ...

– Lithgow to Mount Lambie

Under construction

* M1 Princes Motorway Extension * Pacific Motorway * WestConnex Stage 3 (Major multibillion-dollar tollway/tunnels, connecting the M4 East to A4 Western Distributor and M5 East) – To be completed by 2023. * Sydney Gateway (Connecting Sydney Airport to the St Peters Interchange and WestConnex

* Barton Highway duplication project (To be Completed by mid 2023) * Newcastle Inner City Bypass Stage 5

In planning

M1 Pacific Motorway Extension
* Newcastle Bypass * M1 Coffs Harbour Bypass * M6 Motorway (Sydney), Southconnex – M6 Motorway (Sydney) (F6 extension) – To be Complete by 2024. * Western Harbour Tunnel & Beaches Link (Major multibillion-dollar tollway/tunnels, connecting WestConnex with the Gore Hill Freeway and Northern Beaches)
Western Harbour Tunnel and Warringah Freeway Upgrade
*

Outer Sydney Orbital The Outer Sydney Orbital is a proposed corridor for a motorway and freight rail line in Western Sydney. The motorway is proposed to be signposted M9 or M10. The proposed orbital will run parallel to The Northern Road. The preferred corridor al ...

– Estimated to be completed in 2040.

* Western Sydney Airport Motorway (Major multimillion-dollar motorway, connecting the future Western Sydney Airport to the Westlink M7 Motorway)

Gallery

File:Jolls Bridge on the F3 Freeway - north of Hawkesbury River, N.S.W..jpg, M1 Pacific Motorway File:(1)M2 Motorway.jpg, M2 Hills Motorway File:M4 Tunnel Sydney Entrance Concord.png, M4 Western Motorway File:M5 Motorway Sydney1.jpg, M5 East Motorway File:Westlink M7 near Cowpasture.jpg, M7 WestLink File:M8 Motorway Tunnel Sydney.jpg, M8 WestConnex File:Federal Highway, Wollogorang.jpg, M23 Federal Highway File:Hume Highway at Albury.jpg, M31 Hume Highway

Northern Territory

While the Northern Territory doesn't have any official freeways, parts of the Stuart Highway and the Tiger Brennan Drive are freeway grade roads with grade separate intersections. See full freeway route her

* Tiger Brennan Drive

Queensland

Brisbane region

Bruce Highway The Bruce Highway is a major highway in Queensland, Australia. Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast on its way to Cairns in Far North Queensland. The route is part of the Australian Nat ...

(Bald Hills to Kybong) * Gateway Motorway (Eight Mile Plains to Bald Hills) * Pacific Motorway (NSW/QLD Border to Eight Mile Plains) *

Ipswich Motorway The Ipswich Motorway (M7) is a major road that connects Brisbane and Ipswich in South East Queensland, Australia. It commences at the junction of Ipswich Road and Granard Road and proceeds through to the M2 Logan Motorway interchange. It is the ...

(Goodna to Dinmore) *

Warrego Highway The Warrego Highway is located in southern Queensland, Australia. It connects coastal centres to the south western areas of the state, and is approximately 715 km in length. It takes its name from the Warrego River, which is the endpoin ...

(Dinmore to Muirlea) *

Logan Motorway The M2/M6 Logan Motorway is a 30-kilometre toll road between Ipswich and the M1 or Pacific Motorway at Loganholme, and the Gateway Motorway, providing access to the Gold Coast on the eastern seaboard and to the rural areas of the Darling Do ...

( Gailes to Drewvale, Electronically Tolled) * Gateway Motorway ( Drewvale to Eight Mile Plains, Electronically Tolled) * Inner City Bypass (Hale Street to Ludwyche Road) * Pacific Motorway * Riverside Expressway * Gympie Arterial Road * Hale Street *

Port of Brisbane Motorway Port of Brisbane Motorway is a motorway which connects the Port of Brisbane to the Gateway Motorway. Stage 1 was opened in December 2002. The motorway was built to take freight traffic off Lytton Road, with about 4,000 vehicles travelling to the ...

* Legacy Way () * Western Freeway * Centenary Motorway *

(Drewvale to Loganholme, Electronically Tolled) *

(Goodna to Rocklea) * Airport Link Tunnel ( Electronically Tolled) * Clem Jones Tunnel (Clem7) ( Electronically Tolled) *

Cunningham Highway The Cunningham Highway is a national highway located in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. The highway links the Darling Downs region with the urbanised outskirts of via Cunninghams Gap. The Cunningham carries the National Highway 15 shi ...

( Riverview to Yamanto) No shield *

Southern Cross Way The Gateway Motorway (M2 to Eight Mile Plains and M1 to Pine River) is a major tolled motorway in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia which includes the Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges (former Gateway Bridge). The motorway is operated by toll road opera ...

* Inner City Bypass (Lutwyche Road to Kingsford Drive) Motorway grade roads * Moreton Bay Road (Freeway grade from Chandler to Capalaba) *

Mount Lindesay Highway Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish ...

(Freeway grade from Drewvale to North MacLean – see full route her

Former motorways *

Story Bridge The Story Bridge is a heritage-listed steel cantilever bridge spanning the Brisbane River that carries vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the northern and the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is the long ...

Expressway

Gold Coast region

* Pacific Motorway * Smith Street Motorway

Sunshine Coast region

Sunshine Motorway The Sunshine Motorway is a thirty-three kilometre Australian motorway on the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, just north of Brisbane. It was initially a tolled motorway before these were removed in 1996 after excessive complaints regarding ...

Regional Queensland

( Bald Hills to Kybong, Townsville Ring Road) *

Toowoomba Bypass The Toowoomba Bypass, known as Toowoomba Second Range Crossing during planning and construction, is a grade separated, dual carriageway bypass and partial ring road constructed to the north and west of Toowoomba, Queensland. Construction comm ...

(Helidon Spa to Charlton; / Helidon Spa to Mort Street Electronically tolled) **

Gore Highway The Gore Highway is a highway running between Toowoomba and Goondiwindi in Queensland, Australia. Together with Goulburn Valley Highway and Newell Highway, it is a part of the National Highway's Melbourne- Brisbane link. It is signed as Na ...

(Charlton to Athol)

South Australia

In South Australia, ''expressway'' may refer to a controlled access highway with no at-grade intersections or a limited access road of slightly lower standard with at-grade intersections at some locations. Unlike some other states, South Australia only uses the 'M' designation on grade separated freeways *

(SE Freeway to Tailem Bend) * South Eastern Freeway * Port Wakefield Road (Expressway grade road from Virginia to Port Wakefield) * Northern Expressway * North–South Motorway ''(incomplete, under construction in stages)'' *

Southern Expressway Southern Expressway may refer to: *Southern Expressway (Adelaide), South Australia * E01 expressway (Sri Lanka) *A portion of U.S. Route 219 in New York U.S. Route 219 (US 219) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that runs from Rich ...

* Port River Expressway * Salisbury Highway – freeway grade from Port Wakefield Road to North–South Motorway * Gawler Bypass – freeway grade road

Planned/proposed

* North–South Motorway:

River Torrens The River Torrens , (Karrawirra Parri / Karrawirraparri) is the most significant river of the Adelaide Plains. It was one of the main reasons for the siting of the city of Adelaide, capital of South Australia. It flows from its source in the ...

Darlington Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington under ...

upgrade of South Road under investigation.

Tasmania

While Tasmania's highway network has been constructed to a high standard, its

grade-separated In civil engineering (more specifically highway engineering), grade separation is a method of aligning a junction of two or more surface transport axes at different heights (grades) so that they will not disrupt the traffic flow on other t ...

freeway network is limited. In the past, Hobart and Launceston have each had comprehensive transport studies conducted, proposing grade-separated freeways running through and around them. While some of these roads have been constructed, the majority are limited access featuring

at-grade intersection An intersection or an at-grade junction is a junction where two or more roads converge, diverge, meet or cross at the same height, as opposed to an interchange, which uses bridges or tunnels to separate different roads. Major intersections ...

s. Devonport and

Burnie Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. , Burnie had an urban pop ...

are the only major population centres with freeway standard roads linking each other. There have been repeated proposals in recent years to fully upgrade the Midland Highway to grade-separated freeway standard.
''This List is limited to Tasmania's freeway-standard roads.''

Hobart region

Brooker Highway The Brooker Highway is a highway in the State of Tasmania, Australia. As one of Hobart's 3 major radials, the highway connects traffic from the Hobart city centre with the northern suburbs and is the major road connection to the cities and tow ...

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to Granton) * Midland Highway (

Brighton Bypass The Brighton Bypass is a A$191 million north/south bypass of the Midland Highway diverting traffic away from the northern Hobart satellite suburbs of Brighton and Pontville. Construction of the 9.5 km federally funded dual carriageway ...

) *

Tasman Highway The Tasman Highway (or A3) is a highway in Tasmania, Australia. Like the Midland Highway, it connects the major cities of Hobart and Launceston – however it takes a different route, via the north-eastern and eastern coasts of the state. T ...

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Tasman Bridge The Tasman Bridge is a bridge that carries the Tasman Highway over the Derwent River in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Including approaches, the bridge has a total length of and it provides the main traffic route from the Hobart city centre ...

Hobart Airport Hobart Airport is an international airport located in Cambridge, north-east of Hobart. It is the major and fastest growing passenger airport in Tasmania. The Federal government owned airport is operated by the Tasmanian Gateway Consortiu ...

) * Southern Outlet (Hobart to

Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, ...

) *

Channel Highway The Channel Highway is a regional highway that travels south from Hobart To Huonville, Tasmania, Australia. The Channel Highway starts from the end of Sandy Bay Road and travels south toward Huonville via Taroona, Kingston, Huntingfield, Ma ...

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Kingston Bypass The Kingston Bypass is a 41 million, highway bypassing the southern Hobart community of Kingston, Tasmania. The proposal of a bypass was originally published in the Hobart Area Transportation Study during 1965. The bypass was completed in 20 ...

)

Rural region

* Bass Highway (

to Devonport and

Prospect Prospect may refer to: General * Prospect (marketing), a marketing term describing a potential customer * Prospect (sports), any player whose rights are owned by a professional team, but who has yet to play a game for the team * Prospect (mining ...

to Illawarra Main Road) * Midland Highway ( South Launceston to Breadalbane)

Victoria

Victoria has the second largest number (behind New South Wales) and highest density of freeways in Australia, with the majority being located in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/ Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a me ...

City or the metropolitan areas. While most of Australia has a low population density over a large area, where towns are sparse or located a significant distance from each other; Victoria has towns located throughout the entire state, with large numbers of inhabitants, in both urban and rural areas (many of which are major) such as

Ballarat Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. Within months of Vi ...

Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2019, Bendigo had an urban population of 100,991, mak ...

. In addition to the roads listed below, Victoria has a number of dual carriageway standard Highways that are given an "M" designation. Whilst these roads are not officially Freeway standard, many of them may have a number of grade-separated intersections along the route. These routes are not listed below.

Melbourne region (urban freeways)

*Freeways within Greater Melbourne, speed limit varies between 60 km/h and 100 km/h. *

CityLink CityLink is a network of tollways in Melbourne, Australia, linking the Tullamarine, West Gate and Monash Freeways and incorporating Bolte Bridge, Burnley Tunnel and other works. In 1996, Transurban was awarded the contract to augment two e ...

(Southern Link, Fully electronically tolled) *

Monash Freeway The Monash Freeway is a major urban freeway in Victoria, Australia, linking Melbourne's CBD to its south-eastern suburbs and beyond to the Gippsland region. It carries up to 180,000 vehicles per day and is one of Australia's busiest freewa ...

* Princes Freeway (East) (from Narre Warren to Pakenham, continues past Pakenham as Rural Freeway) * Princes Freeway (West) (from

Laverton North Laverton North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Laverton North recorded a population of 119 at the 2021 census. Located ...

Werribee Werribee is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Werribee recorded a population of 50,027 at the 2021 census. Werribee i ...

, continues past Werribee as Rural Freeway) *

West Gate Freeway The West Gate Freeway is a major freeway in Melbourne, the busiest urban freeway and the busiest road in Australia, carrying upwards of 200,000 vehicles per day. It links Geelong (via the Princes Freeway) and Melbourne's western suburbs to ...

Note: "East" and "West" sections of Princes Freeway are officially part of the same freeway and route corridor. *

(Western Link, Fully electronically tolled) *

Tullamarine Freeway The Tullamarine Freeway (commonly referred to as "The Tulla"), is a major urban freeway in Melbourne, linking Melbourne Airport to the Melbourne City Centre. It carries up to 210,000 vehicles per day and is one of Australia's busiest freeways. T ...

* Eastern Freeway * EastLink (Fully electronically tolled) *

Frankston Freeway Frankston Freeway is a short freeway in southern Melbourne initially designed as a bypass of central Frankston and later incorporated a freeway-style upgrade to Wells Road in the 1970s, now acting as a link from suburban Melbourne to Frankst ...

* Western Freeway (from Derrimut to Melton West, continues past Melton West as Rural Freeway) *

Mornington Peninsula Freeway The Mornington Peninsula Freeway is a freeway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, that provides a link from south-eastern suburban Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula. Whilst the entire freeway from Dingley Village to Rosebud is declared b ...

Hume Freeway Hume Highway, inclusive of the sections now known as Hume Freeway and Hume Motorway, is one of Australia's major inter-city national highways, running for between Melbourne in the southwest and Sydney in the northeast. Upgrading of the route ...

(from

Thomastown Thomastown (), historically known as Grennan, is a town in County Kilkenny in the province of Leinster in the south-east of Ireland. It is a market town along a stretch of the River Nore which is known for its salmon and trout, with a number of ...

to Wallan, continues past Wallan as Rural Freeway) – Not entirely freeway standard, In Kalkallo there is residential property, business and local road access with 80 km/h speed limit. *

Calder Freeway Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria. South of Bendigo, where the former highway has been upgraded to freeway-standard, Calder Freeway l ...

(from

Essendon North Essendon North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Melbourne City Centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Moonee Valley Local government areas of Victoria, local g ...

Keilor North Keilor North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located with the City of Brimbank local government area. Keilor North recorded a population of 67 at the 2021 census. It is id ...

, continues past Keilor North as Rural Freeway) * Metropolitan Ring Road * Western Ring Road * South Gippsland Freeway

Rural region (rural freeways)

On freeways outside of Greater Melbourne, the speed limit varies between 80 km/h and 110 km/h. * Princes Freeway (East) (continues at Werribee towards Melbourne as Urban Freeway) * Princes Freeway (West) (continues at Pakenham towards Melbourne as Urban Freeway) – Not entirely freeway standard, In Yarragon and Trafalgar there is residential property, business and local road access with 60 km/h speed limit. *

Geelong Ring Road The Geelong Ring Road (formerly known as the Geelong Bypass and the Geelong Outer Freeway, officially part of Princes Freeway West) is a freeway ring road in Australia beside Geelong's western suburbs from the Princes Freeway at Corio to the P ...

(officially part of Princes Freeway) Note: "East" and "West" sections of Princes Freeway are officially part of the same freeway and route corridor. * Western Freeway (continues at Melton West towards Melbourne as Urban Freeway) *

(continues at Wallan towards Melbourne as Urban Freeway) * Goulburn Valley Freeway *

(continues at Keilor North towards Melbourne as Urban Freeway)

Under construction

* West Gate Tunnel – Under construction, expected to be complete in 2025. * Western Highway Duplication (Buangor to Stawell) – Commenced construction in 2017, currently on hold. *

North East Link The North East Link is an under construction 26–kilometre tolled motorway scheme in Melbourne, Australia. Its stated objective is to connect the Metropolitan Ring Road at Greensborough with the Eastern Freeway at Bulleen, where the freewa ...

– Under construction, expected to be complete in 2027/2028.

Gallery

File:Geelong Ring Road section 3 downhill Waurn Ponds 2009.jpg, M1 Geelong Ring Road File:Looking north bound down the Tullamarine Freeway at Airport West.jpg, M2 Tullamarine Freeway File:Eastern Freeway and Melbourne skyline from Willsmere Park, Kew East.jpg, M3 Eastern Freeway File:Deer Park Bypass eastbound at Western Ring Road.jpg, M8 Western Freeway File:MP Fwy view from Thompson Rd.jpg, M11 Mornington Peninsula Freeway File:M31 - panoramio.jpg, M31 Hume Freeway File:GoulburnValleyFreeway1.jpg, M39 Goulburn Valley Freeway File:CalderFreeway.jpg, M79 Calder Freeway File:M80 Ring Road W from Sydney Rd.jpg, M80 Western Ring Road

Western Australia

Western Australia has three named freeways –

Kwinana Freeway The Kwinana Freeway is a freeway in and beyond the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking central Perth with Mandurah to the south. It is the central section of State Route 2, which continues north as Mitchell Freeway to ...

Mitchell Freeway The Mitchell Freeway is a freeway in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking central Perth with the city of Joondalup. It is the northern section of State Route 2, which continues south as Kwinana Freeway and Forrest Hig ...

, and Graham Farmer Freeway – but in addition has several highways that are in the process of being upgraded to full freeway standard and are considered part of the Perth freeway network. Their designation may remain as a highway though due to state restrictions on heavy vehicles (e.g. road trains) that are prevented by law from travelling on any road classed as a freeway. Cockburn stn2019

Perth metro freeways

Reid Highway Reid Highway is a east-west highway and partial freeway in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking North Beach with Middle Swan. As part of State Route 3, it forms half of Perth's outer ring road along with Roe Highway, wh ...

( Erindale Road to Altone Road) *

Roe Highway Roe Highway is a limited-access highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Kewdale with the city's north-eastern and south-western suburbs. The northern terminus is at Reid Highway and Great Northern Highway in Middl ...

(Morrison Road to Great Eastern Highway Bypass, Great Eastern Highway Bypass to Tonkin Highway, Tonkin Highway to Kwinana Freeway) *

Tonkin Highway Tonkin Highway is an north–south highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth Airport and Kewdale, Western Australia, Kewdale with the city's north-eastern and south-eastern suburbs. As of April 2020, the northern ...

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Great Northern Highway Great Northern Highway is an Australian highway that links Western Australia's capital city Perth with its northernmost port, Wyndham. With a length of almost , it is the longest highway in Australia, with the majority included as part of the ...

at Muchea to Hale Road, Mills Road to Champion Drive) *

Leach Highway Leach Highway is a east-west arterial highway in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, primarily linking Kewdale and Perth Airport with the city of Fremantle. It is allocated State Route 7 and is a dual carriageway for its enti ...

(Airport Drive to Welshpool Road) * Graham Farmer Freeway

Rural expressways / freeways

Forrest Highway Forrest Highway is a highway in Western Australia's Peel and South West regions, extending Perth's Kwinana Freeway from east of Mandurah down to Bunbury. Old Coast Road was the original Mandurah–Bunbury route, dating back to the 1840s. ...

– Southern extension of Kwinana Freeway at Mandurah through to Bunbury * Bussell Highway – Bunbury to Capel and from the south side of Capel to Busselton

Currently under construction in Perth

*Mitchell Freeway Extension (

Hester Avenue Hester Avenue (previously known as Quinns Road) is an east-west distributor road in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Wanneroo. It primarily links the coastal suburbs of the Clarkson-Butler A but ...

to Romeo Road) *Mitchell Freeway southbound widening – A third southbound lane is being added from Hodges Drive to Hepburn Avenue as well as an extra lane will be built from Hepburn Avenue entry ramp to Warwick Road exit ramp. *Leach Highway flyover over Leach Highway-Welshpool Road interchange. This will upgrade Leach Highway to expressway standard from the Manning Road lights through to the eastern end of Airport Drive at Perth International Airport. *Tonkin Gap project – the currently heavily congested section of Tonkin Highway between Collier Road and

Great Eastern Highway Great Eastern Highway is a road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt and the Goldfields-Esperance, Goldfie ...

upgraded to 3 lanes each way dual carriageway

Rural under construction

Bunbury Outer Ring Road The Bunbury Outer Ring Road (BORR) is a partially-constructed ring road around the city of Bunbury, Western Australia. The road will be long when complete, and link Forrest Highway in the north-east to Bussell Highway in the south-west, passi ...

extension – the Bunbury Outer Ring Road will be a freeway between Forrest Highway and South Western Highway *Albany Ring Road – phase 1, with phase 2 to commence straight after completion of phase 1

Future urban upgrades and new freeways in planning

*Mitchell Freeway Extension (Romeo Road to Moore River) *Mitchell Freeway southbound – Installation of smart freeway technology with ramp metering from Hester Avenue to Vincent Street *Roe Highway Extension (

Perth Freight Link The Perth Freight Link was a proposed $1.9 billion project in Perth, Western Australia to improve the road freight link between Kewdale and Fremantle Harbour. The project was announced by the state government in May 2014, but was cancelled fo ...

) (Kwinana Freeway to

Stirling Highway Stirling Highway is, for most of its length, a four-lane single carriageway and major arterial road between Perth, Western Australia and the port city of Fremantle in Western Australia on the northern side of the Swan River. The speed limit ...

). Was under construction but this was halted at the last change of government. Its future remains unclear. *Roe Highway upgrade (Great Eastern Highway Bypass, to Great Northern Highway) *Reid Highway upgrade (Erindale Road to Mitchell Freeway, Altone Road to Great Northern Highway) *Tonkin Highway upgrade (Hale Road to Mills Road) *Tonkin Highway upgrade (Champion Drive to Thomas Road) *Tonkin Highway Extension (Thomas Road to

South Western Highway South Western Highway is a highway in the South West region of Western Australia connecting Perth's southeast with Walpole. It is a part of the Highway 1 network for most of its length. It is about long. Route description Perth to Bunbury ...

, Pinjarra) *Whiteman-Yanchep Freeway (Tonkin Highway/ Gnangara Road to Mitchell Freeway (proposed)/

Yanchep Beach Road Yanchep Beach Road is an east-west road in outer northern Perth; it provides access to the outermost northern coastal suburbs of Yanchep and Two Rocks from Wanneroo Road as it leaves the Perth metropolitan area. The road is mostly a single ca ...

) *

Orrong Road Orrong Road is a major arterial road servicing the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia as well as the south-eastern continuation of the Graham Farmer Freeway. It is a dual carriageway for its entire length, with multiple sets of traffi ...

Upgrade – Orrong Road to be upgraded to a 4 lane trenched expressway with service roads alongside from Graham Farmer Freeway to Leach Highway, rising onto a viaduct over Leach Highway and Division Street/Bell Street. May be extended in the future along Orrong and Welshpool Roads as far as Tonkin Highway. *Great Eastern Highway Bypass, where all current at grade intersections are planned to be removed and the road upgraded to full freeway standard.

Rural upgrades and new freeway in planning

*Busselton Outer Bypass (BOB) *Perth-Adelaide Freeway "Orange Route" – (Roe Highway, Stratton to Great Eastern Highway bypass at Northam)

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