Route
At Ravenswood South, the Calder Highway, becomes the Calder Freeway, adopting freeway standards, with two lanes running either way (three inside Melbourne) 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 to, or (oddly enough) still keep the old shield (within suburban Melbourne).
The north-western end of the freeway is also duplexed with the until south of Harcourt where the Midland Highway resumes south-westerly to the major regional centres of Ballarat, and Geelong.
Towns bypassed by, but still accessible from, the from this point include:
- Harcourt
- Elphinstone
- Taradale
- Malmsbury
- 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.
The freeway ends at the newly reconstructed interchange with the Tullamarine Freeway, the main route from the central business district to Melbourne Airport. Continuing on the Tullamarine Freeway eventually brings drivers onto CityLink, and thus, central Melbourne.
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