CALDER FREEWAY

'Calder Freeway' is a freeway linking Melbourne to Kyneton in Victoria, Australia. Originally just a short spur of the Tullamarine Freeway linking to the Calder Highway in Keilor in suburban Melbourne, it has been extended in phases to Kyneton subsuming all the older Calder highway stretches. It continues beyond as 'Calder Highway' through to Bendigo and to Mildura. The Victorian Government hopes to complete the duplication of the Calder Highway from Melbourne to Bendigo by the end of 2009.
The Calder Highway was named after William Calder, who was chairman of the Victorian road construction authority formerly known as the Country Roads Board from 1913 to 1928. The CRB is today known as VicRoads.
The highway was originally allocated a National Route 79 shield. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s this was altered to a designation for the majority highway portion, and a designation for the remaining freeway portion into Melbourne.
Just north-west of Kyneton, the 'Calder Highway', becomes the 'Calder Freeway', , adopting freeway standards, and begins bypassing most of the towns the old alignment of the highway used to serve. Former bypassed sections of the Calder Highway are generally designated sequentially from 'C791' to 'C794', or (oddly enough) still keep the old shield (within suburban Melbourne).
Towns bypassed by, but still accessible from, the from this point include:

★ Kyneton

★ Woodend

★ Macedon

★ Gisborne

★ Diggers Rest
It gains the shield at the Green Gully Road interchange in Keilor, which continues east onto the Tullamarine Freeway city-bound, along with the old shield.

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Interchanges

The suburban section of the officially begins just outside the Calder Park Raceway but still uses highway-style at-grade intersections until Keilor, where it adopts full separated-grade interchanges, bridges and ramps. Interchanges are listed below.

★ Calder Park Raceway, Calder Park: at-grade intersection

★ Robertsons Road, Calder Park: at-grade intersection

★ Sunshine Avenue , Keilor North: at-grade intersection

★ Melton Highway , Keilor North: city-bound only

★ Green Gully Road , Keilor: city-bound only

★ Keilor Park Drive , Keilor Park: bi-directional

★ Western Ring Road , Keilor Park: out-bound only (limited)

★ Woorite Place, Airport West: city-bound only

★ Keilor Road/Fullarton Road, Niddrie: bi-directional

★ Bulla Road , Essendon: bi-directional

★ Tullamarine Freeway , Essendon (City-Bound Only)

See also

★ List of Melbourne freeways