History
The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as the F6 Freeway corridor. In the early 1960s the Frankston Freeway was known as the Wells Road Bypass. The Wells Road Bypass was an undivided highway between Frankston-Cranbourne Road and Seaford Road. It then continued on to Mordialloc as Wells Road.
The Wells Road Bypass was upgraded to freeway standard in the early 1970s and on 17 March 1980 the section of freeway from Springvale Road Keysborough to Seaford opened alongside the existing Wells Road. At the time it was planned that the rest of the freeway be completed from Springvale Road onwards but a change of Government in 1982 saw a change in policy. The new policy was to duplicate Wells Rd through Aspendale Gardens and Boundary Rd through Braeside. The Southern section of freeway known as the Mornington Peninsula Freeway (or Dromana Freeway) between Nepean Highway at Dromana and Jetty Road at Rosebud South was completed in 1975. The freeway between Dromana and Moorooduc South linking to Moorooduc Highway was completed in the mid 1990s.
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