Eastern Freeway (Melbourne)

Eastern Freeway

Victoria
Eastern Freeway; Victoria
	Aerial view of the Eastern Freeway looking towards Melbourne CBD
	West end East end
Coordinates	37°47′40″S 144°59′24″E / 37.794405°S 144.989949°E (West end); 37°48′14″S 145°10′41″E / 37.803885°S 145.178026°E (East end);
General information
Type	Freeway
Length	17.9 km (11 mi)
Opened	1977–1997
Route number(s)	(2008–present)
Former; route number	Freeway Route 83 (1977–1989); (Clifton Hill–Doncaster); Metro Route 83 (1989–2008); Entire route;
Major junctions
West end	Alexandra Parade; Collingwood, Melbourne
	Hoddle Street; Chandler Highway; Bulleen Road; Doncaster Road; Middleborough Road; Springvale Road;
East end	EastLink; Donvale, Melbourne
Location(s)
LGA(s)	City of Yarra; City of Boroondara; City of Manningham; City of Whitehorse;
Major suburbs / towns	Bulleen, Doncaster, Box Hill North
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in Victoria; ; ;
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The Eastern Freeway is an urban freeway in eastern Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. It is one of the busiest freeways in the city, running in an east-west direction between the two major inner-urban arterial roads of Alexandra Parade and Hoddle Street, and the EastLink tollway. It is continually the widest freeway in Melbourne, with 12 lanes altogether at its western end. In other locations it consists of between six and 12 lanes. One of these lanes is reserved as an inbound transit lane reserved for vehicles with two or more occupants during peak hours west of Burke Road.