"Member for Bellarine Lisa Neville has ruled out funding for a Drysdale bypass. Ms Neville told the Independent traffic levels in the area did not support calls for construction of a bypass “at this stage”.
"We will continue to monitor traffic growth and demand against other projects across the state," the Labor minister said.
The Independent reported in March this year that community leaders were pushing for a funding promise to eliminate the Bellarine Peninsula’s worst traffic bottleneck.
Traffic banks up for hundreds of metres at the intersection of Grubb, Jetty and Portarlington-Geelong roads during peak hours. The queue back into Drysdale along Portarlington-Geelong road can run for over a kilometre.
Plans for further housing development off Jetty Road are set to put more pressure on the intersection..."
Read more at "Bypass bid 'rejected'"
Update: 11 October 2010 - The Age today reports (in an article entitled Plan for hundreds of kilometres of new freeways) on the "Proposed 2040 Road Network Development" which links to a map showing the Drysdale bypass as a primary arterial 6 lane plus road. The complete map is available from http://images.theage.com.au/file/2010/10/10/1977327/Melbourne2040.pdf
So the road is still on the cards but we might have to wait another 30 plus years to see it.
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