The Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road Upgrade will reach a major milestone with the new southbound carriageway on track to be complete in late 2023.
The Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road Upgrade will deliver improved traffic flow, travel times, and safety for the 33,000 motorists who use this key road every day by adding extra lanes in each direction between Thompsons Road and the South Gippsland Highway, while also upgrading 11 intersections that will include eight new sets of traffic signals.
Workers on the project recently chalked up more than 400,000 labor hours as they got on with upgrading several key intersections.
The upgraded intersection at New Holland Drive re-opened before term 4 to improve safety and access to the nearby education and recreation precinct.
Work is forging ahead to complete works at Linsell Boulevard, with the new intersection to open by the end of October.
At the Linsell Boulevard intersection, workers have been widening the road to allow for extra lanes along Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road, which will improve traffic flow and make it easier for locals to access shops and homes in Cranbourne East.
Once the new southbound lanes are complete, traffic will be switched onto those lanes, and workers will start to build the northbound carriageway and upgrade the service lane.
In late October, the key Berwick-Cranbourne Road intersection will start the upgrade. Workers will replace the roundabout with a new safer intersection with traffic lights while adding extra lanes in all directions to provide better traffic flow.
The new intersection at Berwick-Cranbourne Road will be built in two stages, which will allow traffic to travel east-west throughout the entirety of these works. This is the predominant movement through this roundabout, with approximately 35,000 vehicles traveling in an east-west direction each day.
Pedestrians and cyclists will also benefit from new paths and safer crossing points to the education and recreation precinct and nearby High Street shops when this intersection is complete.
During stage one of these vital works, Cameron Street at Berwick-Cranbourne Road will be closed from 29 October until January 2024.
Detours will be in place via South Gippsland Highway and Sladen Street or via Camms Road and South Gippsland Highway.
Delays of up to 20 minutes are expected.
Safe access to businesses on Cameron and Sladen Streets and Cooper Court will be maintained throughout these works.
Major Road Projects has been working closely with each trader in the area and will provide targeted business support measures, including increased signage and access maps.
Works also began earlier in October to upgrade the intersection at South Gippsland Highway and Cameron Street, where workers have been installing traffic lights, adding extra lanes, and changing the intersection layout so Narre Warren–Cranbourne Road becomes the ‘straight through’ movement for vehicles traveling north towards Narre Warren and the freeway network.
There will be ongoing lane closures along South Gippsland Highway from north of Cameron Street to Lineham Drive until early 2024 before the completion of work.
In January 2024, stage two of our works at Berwick-Cranbourne Road to upgrade the northern half of the intersection will commerce, while Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road at Berwick-Cranbourne Road will be closed for approximately eight weeks.
With several major construction blitzes planned for the remainder of the year in Cranbourne, including the Hall Road Upgrade, Camms Road Level Crossing Removal, and City of Casey projects on South Gippsland Highway and Ballarto Road, drivers are advised to plan ahead and travel outside of peak periods if they can to minimize delays.
The Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road Upgrade is expected to be complete by 2025 and is part of the Suburban Roads Upgrade – a $2.5 billion package of road upgrades across the northern and south-eastern suburbs jointly funded by the Victorian and Australian governments.
For information on all planned traffic disruptions on the Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road Upgrade visit big.build.vic.gov.au.
