Congestion
The highway is badly congested with traffic as the four lane highway is funnelled into two lanes at the Yarra River crossing. The RACV/Leader bi-annual Redspot survey has the highway in second place in 2010, up from twelfth in 2002. It's a repeat offender.
In October 2010 VicRoads released four proposed options for improving the Yarra River crossing with a new bridge:
- add an additional two lane bridge on either the east or west side of the existing bridge. The existing bridge would be retained as a two lane road bridge bringing the total lanes up to four.
- add an additional four lane bridge on either the east or west side of the existing bridge. The existing bridge would be used as a pedestrian/cycle bridge. Local cycle groups would like to see this bridge full integrated into the shared path network via the Yarra Trail and the Anniversary Trail with an extension of the Annversary Trail to Fairfield railway station.
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