Ringwood Bypass
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2013}}
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| state = vic
| road_name = Ringwood Bypass
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| length = 2
| est = 1996–2008
| coordinates_a = {{coord|-37.813327|145.215597|type:landmark_region:AU-VIC|display=inline}}
| coordinates_b = {{coord|-37.811053|145.237442|type:landmark_region:AU-VIC|display=inline}}
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| alternative_location_map=Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne
| route = {{AUshield|S|62}} Metro Route 62 {{small|(2008–present)}}
| direction_a = West
| direction_b = East
| end_a = {{AUshield|Toll|M3}} EastLink
{{small|Ringwood, Melbourne}}
| end_b = {{AUshield|S|62}} Mount Dandenong Road
{{small|Ringwood, Melbourne}}
| exits = {{plainlist|
- {{AUshield|S|9}} Warrandyte Road
- Ringwood Street
- {{AUshield|S|34}} Maroondah Highway
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The Ringwood Bypass is a short stretch of road extending from EastLink to Maroondah Highway in Melbourne, Australia. It allows the Maroondah Highway to bypass Eastland Shopping Centre, in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Ringwood.
Route
The bypass begins at the intersection with EastLink – with access to the Maroondah Highway west of Ringwood extended south from Eastlink's ramps – and heads east as an 8-lane, dual-carriageway road, adjacent to Mullum Mullum Creek, crossing Ringwood Street and Warrandyte Road, before ending at the intersection with the Maroondah Highway east of Ringwood and Mount Dandenong Road. The speed limit is {{convert|80|km/h|round=5}}.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
History
The first stage of the road began construction in January 1995{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1292615 |title=VicRoads Annual Report 1994-95 |newspaper=VicRoads |location=Melbourne |date=26 September 1995 |page=8 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}} and opened in September 1996, starting at Mount Dandenong Road and heading west to Ringwood Street.{{cite web |url=http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kmfa/sub2.htm |title=Koonung Mullum Forestway Association: Background |publisher=home.vicnet.net.au |accessdate=2008-07-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409143637/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kmfa/sub2.htm |archivedate=9 April 2011}} An extension to the bypass to connect it to the Eastern Freeway at Springvale Road in Donvale was planned in October 2000:{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1291447 |title=VicRoads Annual Report 2000-01 |newspaper=VicRoads |location=Melbourne |date=26 September 2001 |page=30 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}} this would include tunnels 1.5 km in length and a connection with the planned Scoresby Freeway (later EastLink), cost $326 million, and was scheduled for completion in mid-2005. Instead, the Scoresby Freeway and the planned Eastern Freeway extension was merged into the Eastlink project,{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1291507 |title=VicRoads Annual Report 2003-04 |newspaper=VicRoads |location=Melbourne |date=5 October 2004 |page=26 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}} with the western half of the Ringwood Bypass connecting directly to it just south of the tunnel portals: this section opened with EastLink in July 2008. In 2003 there was controversy about whether the bypass would be tolled, with the State Government making assurances that it would not be.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2003/10/31/979799.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121231051002/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2003/10/31/979799.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 December 2012 |title=Vic Govt promises no toll for Ringwood Bypass |publisher=ABC News|location=Australia |date=31 October 2003 |accessdate=2008-07-17}}
The bypass was signed as Metropolitan Route 62 along its entire length when the second stage opened at the same time as EastLink in 2008.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004{{cite web |author=State Government of Victoria |title=Road Management Act 2004 |url=https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-08/04-12aa062%20authorised.pdf |publisher=Government of Victoria |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018233332/https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-08/04-12aa062%20authorised.pdf |archivedate=18 October 2021 |url-status=live |access-date=19 October 2021 }} granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Ringwood Bypass (Arterial #6270), beginning at Ringwood Street and ending at Maroondah Highway through Ringwood;{{cite web |author=VicRoads |title=VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015 |url=https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/-/media/files/documents/utilities/about-vr/acts-and-regulations/register-of-public-roads---part-a-v-2015.ashx?la=en&hash=116BE6FB86F506FF0B5BAFBEA45FCD6C |publisher=Government of Victoria |page=965 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501042521/https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/-/media/files/documents/utilities/about-vr/acts-and-regulations/register-of-public-roads---part-a-v-2015.ashx?la=en&hash=116BE6FB86F506FF0B5BAFBEA45FCD6C |archivedate=1 May 2020 |url-status=live |access-date=19 October 2021 }} the road west of Ringwood Street connects to EastLink, a private tollway not under the jurisdiction of VicRoads.
Major intersections
The entire bypass lies within the City of Maroondah local government area.
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See also
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References
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{{Road infrastructure in Melbourne}}
Category:Highways and freeways in Melbourne
Category:Bypasses in Australia
Category:Transport in the City of Maroondah
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