Healesville Freeway

Healesville Freeway Victoria
General information
Type	Freeway
Length	18 km (11 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Springvale Road (State Route 40), Forest Hill, Melbourne
	Boronia Road (State Route 36) EastLink (M3) Wantirna Road (State Route 9) Canterbury Road (State Route 32) Dorset Road (State Route 5) Colchester Road Cambridge Road
East end	Mooroolbark Road, Lilydale, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbs / towns	Vermont, Wantirna, Bayswater North, Kilsyth, Mooroolbark, Lilydale
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria

The Healesville Freeway was a proposed^[1] freeway in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. It was initially proposed in 1969, to run between Riversdale Road in Box Hill South, intersecting Springvale Road and then to Maroondah Highway in Coldstream.

In 2011, VicRoads deemed the freeway reservation between Springvale Road in Forest Hill and Boronia Road in Vermont to no longer be necessary for road building purposes, and this section was reviewed for future non-road uses.^[2]

In 2018, the section between Springvale Road and Boronia Road was gradually released back to the Crown to become parkland, including bicycle and pedestrian paths.^[3]

The land reserved for the Healesville freeway between Boronia Road/Eastlink towards Maroondah Highway in Mooroolbark was further considered to be incorporated - in part - into the Corridor D option^[4] of the North East Link (freeway) Project in 2017–2018.

Smaller sections of the original freeway route reservation, at both ends of the route, have subsequently been released for other uses since 1979. The remainder of the land remains reserved for use by VicRoads.

Planned route[]

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Stonnington	Glen Iris	0.0	0.0	Monash Freeway (M1)	Western terminus of route. Start of the planned F9 East Route. Cancelled in 1973.
Boroondara	Malvern East–Chadstone Border	0.9	0.56	Glen Iris Road	Outbound entry and inbound exit only. Part of the original planned corridor. Cancelled in 1973.
Boroondara–Monash Border	Glen Iris–Burwood Border	3.3	2.1	Warrigal Road (State Route 15) – Oakleigh, Burwood	Part of the original planned corridor. Cancelled in 1973.
Whitehorse	Burwood	5.2	3.2	Burwood Highway (State Route 26) – Burwood, Ferntree Gully	Part of the original planned corridor. Cancelled in 1973.
	Box Hill South	7.3	4.5	Riversdale Road (State Route 20) – Camberwell	Part of the first revision of the F9 East Corridor. Cancelled in 1984.
		7.7	4.8	Middleborough Road (State Route 23) – Doncaster, Mount Waverley	Inbound entry and outbound exit only. Part of the first revision of the corridor. Cancelled in 1984.
	Blackburn South	8.6	5.3	F7 Warrigal Freeway (Freeway Route F7) – Diamond Creek, Clarinda	Part of the original corridor. Cancelled in 1973.
		9.5	5.9	Blackburn Road (B29) – Clayton, Blackburn	Outbound entry and inbound exit only. Part of the first revision of the corridor. Cancelled in 1984.
	Forest Hill	10.9	6.8	Springvale Road (A40) – Nunawading, Glen Waverley	Part of the final revision of the F9 East corridor. Cancelled early-to-mid 1990s.
	Vermont	14	8.7	Boronia Road (State Route 36) – Vermont, Boronia	Outbound exit only. Cancelled 1984.
Maroondah	Wantirna	15	9.3	Eastlink (M3) – Ringwood, Frankston	Part of the currently-active reservation and open for future use by VicRoads. Potential for construction in future.
		15.8	9.8	Wantirna Road (State Route 9) – Ringwood, Wantirna	Outbound entry and inbound exit only. Part of the currently-active reservation and open for future use by VicRoads. Potential for construction in future.
	Bayswater	17.9	11.1	Stud Road – Wantirna South	Connection to (then-proposed, now-cancelled) extension to Stud Road past Mountain Highway. Part of the currently-active reservation and open for future use by VicRoads. Potential for construction in future.
	Bayswater North	19.4	12.1	Canterbury Road (State Route 32) – Vermont, Montrose	Part of the currently-active reservation and open for future use by VicRoads. Potential for construction in future.
		22	14	Dorset Road –Boronia, Croydon	Part of the currently-active reservation and open for future use by VicRoads. Potential for construction in future.
Yarra Ranges	Mooroolbark–Kilsyth border	26.2	16.3	Cambridge Road – Mooroolbark, Montrose	Part of the currently-active reservation and open for future use by VicRoads. Potential for construction in future.
	Mooroolbark	28.8	17.9	Mooroolbark Road – Lilydale / Hull Road – Mooroolbark, Mount Evelyn	Eastern terminus of route. Part of the currently-active reservation and open for future use by VicRoads. Potential for construction in future.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Unopened

Starting at Springvale Road at the border of Forest Hill and Vermont South, the freeway would head east intersecting EastLink with a full freeway junction, it will then head north east, finally joining Mooroolbark Road and terminating at Maroondah Highway at the border of Mooroolbark and Lilydale, linking up with the proposed Lilydale Bypass.

The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F9 Freeway corridor, extending past Springvale Road, joining Riversdale Road and winding through Glen Iris to join the M1 Monash Freeway at Burke Road.

See also[]

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