Talk:Tullamarine Freeway
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[edit] Originally planned Route
I remember years ago meeting a guy who was involved in the Tulla airport and associated freeway planning, work he must have done back in the late 60's I suppose. He said to me that the original route of the tullamarine freeway would have diverged at Bell Street, and passed Essendon Airport over the top of it, to it's North East, rejoining the current freeway just before Mickleham road thereabouts. This would have meant houses to be acquired and demolished, but would have been a much straighter and efficient route. Anyway the local state MP apparently objected, got his way, and the freeway instead went south and then west of Essendon airport. He went on to say that because of this "weaving" configuration we now have, a bottleneck, meant that the airport could never reach it's full potential, as while they had located it so that it could have 2 extra runways constructed in future for expansion, this bottleneck meant that the freeway could not handle the passenger numbers. Instead, a new airport would eventually have to be constructed, earlier than would otherwise be required, out past Berwick somewhere, and would now be required around 2030 or so. I wonder if these latest roadworks at the Calder intersection alleviate this problem or not. I also wonder if this how many deaths have occurred because of this decision to route the freeway where it ended up... I wish I had some references... --Commking 05:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
- That would actually be a very interesting addition to the article if we can find reliable source references to add it in. Pity we don't know when in the 60s because a trip to State Library of Victoria to view old newspapers (esp if a state MP was involved, quite likely) would probably yield some results. Orderinchaos78 15:57, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] National Route 79
I wondering if the person who added the NR79 shield realises that it does no longer exist along the Tullamarine Freeway? --Sk-4 (talk) 05:40, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
