Western Roads Upgrade

The Western Roads Upgrade will transform the arterial road network in Melbourne’s western suburbs to meet demand, reduce congestion and increase productivity.

Project

Status

Contract Let

Department or agency

Major Road Projects Authority

Description

The Western Roads Upgrade will transform the arterial road network in the western suburbs by boosting capacity and significantly improving road pavement conditions and network infrastructure. The project will deliver a combination of road widening, duplications and intersection upgrades on eight arterial roads in the western suburbs, including:

Dunnings Road and Palmers Road upgrade, Point Cook Road to Princes Freeway, Point Cook
Palmers Road upgrade, Princes Freeway to Western Freeway, Truganina
Derrimut Road upgrade, Sayers Road to Dohertys Road, Tarneit
Leakes Road upgrade, Fitzgerald Road to Derrimut Road, Truganina
Dohertys Road upgrade, Fitzgerald Road to Grieve Parade, Laverton North
Dohertys Road upgrade, Foundation Road to Palmers Road, Truganina
Princes Freeway/Forsyth Road interchange upgrade, Hoppers Crossing
Duncans Road interchange, Werribee/Werribee South.

In an Australian-first, the PPP will also extend to road maintenance – 260 kilometres of the existing arterial road network in the western suburbs will be maintained over 20 years.

The availability PPP contract was executed in December 2017 with Netflow – a Cintra and Plenary joint venture – as project sponsor, with WBHO Infrastructure as design and construction lead, and Ferrovial Services companies (Amey / Broadspectrum) as services contractor.

The works on the Western Roads Upgrade commenced construction in 2018 and will be completed in stages to minimise disruption to road users, with all eight projects due to be progressively completed by 2021.

Further information is available on the VicRoads project website.