Airport Drive

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Airport Drive (Melbourne)

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Airport Drive
Length 1.5 km (1 mi)
Direction North-South
From Australian State Route 39.svg Sharps Road,
Tullamarine, Melbourne
To Australian National Route M80.svg Western Ring Road,
Airport West, Melbourne
Established 1997
Major junctions for full list see major interchanges

Airport Drive, is a short 1.5 kilometre semi-standard freeway in Melbourne, Australia, between Sharps Road Tullamarine and the Western Ring Road at Airport West. This road is an important thoroughfare for the Melbourne Airport business park along South Centre Road. A proposed extension of the freeway is to run through the business park to Melrose Drive, Melbourne Airport, yet no announcement or commitment has been made to construct the road.

Airport Drive opened to traffic in May 1997 and was declared a freeway under the Road Management Act 2004.[1]

Major Interchanges

Airport Drive
Northbound Distance from
Western Ring Road
(km)
Southbound
Australian traffic lights ahead sign.png Traffic Lights (clockwise from freeway)
Sharps Road Australian State Route 39.svg to Keilor Park (2 km)
Sharps Road Australian State Route 39.svg to Gladstone Park (5 km) and Mickleham (19 km)
End Airport Drive 1.5 Start Airport Drive
Seymour, Sydney
Western Ring Road Australian National Route M80.svg Grade Separated Intersection Give way sign at roundabout (Australia).svg
0.1 Seymour, Sydney
Western Ring Road Australian National Route M80.svg Grade Separated Intersection Give way sign at roundabout (Australia).svg
Start Airport Drive 0.0 End Airport Drive
Give way sign at roundabout (Australia).svg Roundabout (clockwise from freeway)
Westfield Drive to Airport West (1 km)
Western Ring Road Australian National Route M80.svg to Melbourne via Australian Alphanumeric State Route M1.svg Freeway (37 km); to Geelong via Australian Alphanumeric State Route M1.svg Freeway (80 km) and Adelaide via Australian National Route M8.svg (714 km)

References

  1. ^ MRV: Airport Connection Road Main Roads Victoria. 6 October 2008. Retrieved on 21 September 2009.



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