Intown Geelong - The Geelong Ring Road

The Geelong Ring Road

The Geelong Ring Road is taking shape and it is expected the first cars will drive on the first section later this year. The road will link the Princes Freeway at Corio Overpass with the Princess Highway at Waurn Ponds. The three stages of the project will be complete in 2009 and cost over 380 million dollars.

The completed ring road will stretch 23 kilometres and will cut traveling time for in half and over the summer period the trip from Melbourne to the Surf Coast or Great Ocean road might be cut by over an hour.

It is expected when complete the ring road will have over 24000 cars travel on it a day cutting traffic through the city and suburbs considerably. The ring road will avoid over 16 sets of traffic lights between Corio and Waurn Ponds alone.

Construction of stage 1 to 3 are underway, stage 1 stretches from Corio to the Midland Highway. Stage 2 from the Midland Highway to the Hamilton Highway at Fyansford and stage 3 goes from Fyansford to Waurn Ponds. There is a stage four proposed which will take the road through Waurn Ponds and later to the Surf Coast Highway.

The project has several river crossings including a 100 metre span of the Barwon River. There are hundreds of thousands of tons of earth to move and replace along the route. Once finished the project will have a magnificent corridor of native planting and landscaping. Sections of the road will also provide pathways for walking and bike riding.

For more information visit the official VicRoads site