Statistics:
- Length:
- 60 km
- Termini:
- Northern: Dingley Arterial Rd (MR87), Dingley Village
- Southern: Boneo Rd (C777), Rosebud West
- Suburbs, Towns & Localities Along Route:
- Rosebud West, Rosebud, McCrae, Dromana, Safety Beach, Mount Martha, Moorooduc, Baxter, Frankston South, Langwarrin South, Langwarrin, Frankston, Frankston North, Carrum Downs, Seaford, Patterson Lakes, Chelsea Heights, Aspendale Gardens, Waterways, Braeside and Dingley Village
Route Numbering:
- Current: M11
- Former: 11 F87
- Road Authority Internal Classification: 1
- 1600
General Information:
M11 is a freeway standard route in the Mornington Peninsula region in Melbourne's south. The route services areas frequented by tourists and passes through residential, rural and commercial areas.
The route has seen a progression of sections added and was once in 2 sections, before being joined up by Peninsula Link.
History:
- 1960s: Country Roads Board builds Wells Road Bypass. The planning for the greater Mornington Peninsula Freeway began in the 1960s in the then Metropolitan Planning Scheme. 2
- 1970s: Wells Road Bypass duplicated and upgraded.
- December 1971: 1.5 miles opened from Nepean Highway to McCulloch Street. 3
- December 1972: One mile section opened, 2.5 miles south-west from the Nepean Highway at Dromana. 4
- December 1973: 4 km opened north-east from Jetty Road, Rosebud. 5
- 1974: F87 introduced onto Mornington Peninsula Freeway between Bittern-Dromana Road and McCulloch Street. 6
- 1975: F87 extended to Jetty Road from McCulloch Street. 6 Mornington Peninsula Fwy completed between Nepean Hwy, Dromana and Jetty Road, Rosebud. 7
- July 1975: The opening of the A$7m Kangerong Avenue overpass, Dromana. 7
- November 1976: 2 km section from Eel Race Drain to the Frankston Freeway opened. 8
- 18 March 1980: 6.7 km opened from Springvale Road to Frankston Freeway, by Minister for Transport, the Hon Robert Maclellan MLA, at a cost of A$14m. 9
- 8 June 1984: An initial 5 km single two-lane carriageway between Dromana and the Nepean Highway at Mount Martha is opened by the Federal Minister for Transport, the Hon. Peter Morris MHR. The project included dual carriageways over the Nepean Highway interchange and at the approaches to Dromana. 10
- 16 May 1989: Dromana to Mount Martha duplicate carriageway completed at a cost of A$5m. 11
- June 1993: The initial carriageway between Mooorooduc Road to Nepean Highway was completed and opened to traffic. 12
- May 1994: The 6 km second carriageway between Mooorooduc Road to Nepean Highway, Mount Martha was completed, at a cost of A$2.5m. 12
- 10 March 1987: F87 decommissioned; replaced by Metropolitan Route 11. 6
- 1989: MR11 removed off Springvale Road, replaced with MR40. 13
- 1990s: The freeway between Dromana and Moorooduc South linking to Moorooduc Highway was completed.
- February 2010: Work begins on Peninsula Link. 14
- 2013: Completion of Peninsula Link.
- 21 November 2021: The 9 km extension of M11 opened as the Mordialloc Fwy between Aspendale Gardens and Dingley Village. 15
1 VIC Government, VicRoads, Road Management Plan, 2020-2021, 07 December 2020.
2 Tim Cole.
3 VIC Government, Country Roads Board Victoria. Fifty-Ninth Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1972. Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1972. p. 9.
4 VIC Government, Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixtieth Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1973. Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1973. p. 6.
5 VIC Government, Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixty-First Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1974. Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1974. p. 5.
6 Main Roads Victoria, F87 Mornington Peninsula Freeway.
7 VIC Government, Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixty-Second Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1975. Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1975. p. 6.
8 VIC Government, Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixty-Fourth Annual Report: for the year ended 30th June, 1977. Burwood, Victoria: Brown, Prior, Anderson, 1977. p. 21.
9 VIC Government, Country Roads Board Victoria. 67th Annual Report. 1979-1980. Kew, Victoria: Country Roads Board Victoria, 1980. p. 9.
10 VIC Government, Road Construction Authority Victoria. 1st Annual Report 1983-84, Kew, Victoria: Road Construction Authority, Victoria, 1984. p. 11.
11 VIC Government, Road Construction Authority Victoria. Annual Report 1988-1989, Kew, Victoria: Road Construction Authority, Victoria, 1989. p. 47.
12 VIC Government, VicRoads. VicRoads Annual Report 1993-94. Kew, Victoria: VicRoads, 1994, p. 14.
13 VIC Government, Department of Sustainability and Environment.
14 Partnerships Victoria, Peninsula Link.
15 VIC Government, Major Road Projects Victoria, Victoria's Big Build, Projects, Mordialloc Freeway.