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Melbourne metropolitan routes
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These roads are located within Melbourne's metropolitan area and generally define major transport routes to the city and through the suburbs.
These routes may vary in standard from single carriageway roads to multi-lane arterials and highways.
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"M" roads
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These roads are duplicated (dual carriageway) roadways with at least two lanes in each direction. The majority of these roadways are built to freeway standard.
In rural areas, they provide high standard links between Melbourne, other capital cities and major regional centres. Within Melbourne, they are urban freeways or tollways.
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"M" roads in Victoria:
- M1 - Princes Highway/Freeway, Monash Freeway (including CityLink), Westgate Freeway
- M2 - Tullamarine Freeway (including CityLink)
- M3 - Eastern Freeway, EastLink
- M8 - Western Highway/Freeway
- M31 - Hume Freeway
- M39 - Goulburn Valley Freeway
- M79 - Calder Freeway
- M80 - Western Ring Road, Metropolitan Ring Road
- M420 - South Gippsland Highway/Freeway, Bass Highway
- M780 - Western Port Highway
"A" roads
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These roads are generally single carriageway roadways. The majority of them have sealed shoulders and overtaking lanes in some sections.
They have a similar function to "M" standard roads, but generally carry less traffic. They provide high standard links between Melbourne, other capital cities and between regional centres.
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"A" roads in Victoria:
- A1 - Princes Highway
- A8 - Western Highway
- A10 - Princes Highway (through Geelong)
- A20 - Sturt Highway
- A39 - Goulburn Valley Highway
- A79 - Calder Highway
- A200 - Henty Highway
- A300 - Midland Highway
- A420 - Bass Highway
- A440 - South Gippsland Highway
- A780 - Western Port Highway
- A790 - Calder Alternative Highway
"B" roads
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These roads are generally single carriageway roadways. They are sealed and are of a good standard.
They function as primary links between regions not served by "A" roads. They also include the highly significant tourist routes of the Great Ocean Road (B100), Murray Valley Highway (B400) and the Great Alpine Road (B500).
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"C" roads
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These roads are generally single carriageway roadways. Almost all of them are sealed and their standard is determined by usage and terrain.
They function as important links between population centres and also provide access links to the primary road network.
Note that some "C" roads are former highway routes (a few of which are high quality dual carriageway roads) with freeway bypasses having relieved them of much of their original through traffic.
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Toll roads
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Toll roads in Melbourne have blue signage with gold coloured lettering. This is in contrast to the green signage used on roads that do not require the payment of tolls for their use.
Collection of tolls on all of Melbourne's toll roads is done automatically, without slowing down or stopping. At each toll point, vehicles pass under a gantry which communicates with a small electronic tag that motorists have installed in their vehicles. If a vehicle doesn't have an electronic tag installed, overhead cameras can use number plate recognition technology to identify the vehicle for billing purposes.
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Electronic tags issued by any toll road operator in Australia will automatically work on all Melbourne's toll roads.
Visitors to Melbourne in vehicles without fitted electronic tags who intend to travel on a toll road should contact the appropriate road operator listed below preferably before travelling or within 3 days after travelling to arrange payment.
An option for visitors to Melbourne planning to make multiple trips on any of Melbourne's toll roads during a period of less than 30 days is a Melbourne Pass. No electronic tag is required and tolls are automatically charged to your nominated credit card using number plate recognition technology when driving through toll points.
Melbourne has two roll road operators - Transurban who manage CityLink (parts of M1, Batman Avenue and M2) and ConnectEast who manage EastLink (part of M3).
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CityLink
Tolled sections:
- Southern Link (M1) - Monash Freeway between Power Street (Southbank) and Toorak Road (Malvern)
- Western Link (M2) - Tullamarine Freeway between West Gate Freeway (Port Melbourne) and Bell Street (Strathmore)
- Batman Avenue (Melbourne) between Flinders Street and Olympic Boulevard (excluding vehicles entering car parks at Melbourne Park)
See CityLink or phone 13 26 29.
EastLink
Tolled sections:
- EastLink (M3) between Springvale Road (Nunawading) and Frankston Freeway (Seaford)
See EastLink or phone 13 54 65.
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