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The F14 was one of the longest freeways proposed in 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan. Most of it has been built despite being officially cancelled in 1973 - it's made up of the Tullamarine Freeway, Citylink and the Monash Freeway from Melbourne Airport to Hallam in the city's south-east.
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.
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My website: philipmallis.com
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MORE INFORMATION
Calder Highway Strategy, VicRoads, 1995. web.archive.org/web/20211221040530/https://www.mountalexander.vic.gov.au/files/Planning_Scheme_Background_Documents/Calder_Highway_Strategy__part2.pdf
'The City Ring Road that Melbourne Never Built', 2018. Marcus Wong. wongm.com/2018/03/city-ring-road-melbourne-never-built
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SOURCES AND CREDITS
Melbourne photo-map, Department of Lands and Survey, Aerial Survey of Victoria ; air photography by Adastra Airways Pty. Ltd. 1945. https://cat2.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b2501041
'Tullamarine Project'. Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI). 1968. youtube.com/watch?v=VJObn3H32eQ&t=249s
1982-83 Annual Report. Country Roads Board. railknowledgebank.com/Presto/content/GetDoc.axd?ctID=NmQ5ZmY0YWQtNTc4NS00YzZiLTk3MTItNjEzYWQxZTgyMTRl&rID=NjU0OA==&pID=MTIzMQ==&attchmnt=VHJ1ZQ==&uSesDM=False&rIdx=MTAzOTU=&rCFU=
'Citylink near Macaulay Station', Gary Sauer-Thompson. 2012. CC-BY-NC 3.0. flickr.com/photos/sauer-thompson/8121697249
VicPlan Mapshare, Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning. 2022. https://mapshare.vic.gov.au/vicplan/
'Looking east from the Rialto Tower'. Thomas, Laurie, 1983. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/137411
'$2bn plan for Docklands'. The Australian Jewish News, p. 11, 29 September 1995.. Retrieved January 13, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article261948577
'Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme 1954: Report'. Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. 1954. https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/planning-for-melbourne/melbournes-strategic-planning-history/melbourne-metropolitan-planning-scheme-1954-report
'Map of Mulgrave and Eumemmering By-Pass Roads'. Herald & Weekly Times. State Library of Victoria, 1970. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/223499
'Fine and fast on the freeway'. The Age. 22 May 1970. news.google.com/newspapers?nid=MDQ-9Oe3GGUC&dat=19700522&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
'400 homes to go in freeway madness', Murphy Brian. Tribune, 14 November 1984. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article259491487
'Another Freeway!'. Tribune. 22 March 1978. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article260215079
'202111108 Wurundjeri Way Extension'. 14 November 2021. West Gate Tunnel Project. youtube.com/watch?v=DPDEH5xIMII&t=19s
'South Eastern Freeway Under Construction. 1961. Yarra Libraries. https://coyl.libsvic.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/search/asset/233398/0
'South Eastern Arterial (Monash Freeway), Melbourne, 1989'. Steven Pam. youtube.com/watch?v=Byj9zEzNXmM
'South Eastern-Mulgrave Arterial Road Link', Road Construction Authority. 1988. https://www.expressway.online/library/vic/pdfs/south_eastern_mulgrave_arterial_road_link.pdf
'VicRoads 1997-98 Annual Report'. VicRoads. 1998. https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1292553
'Mulgrave VIC 3170'. Maksym Kozlenko, via Wikimedia Commons. 7 April 2012. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mulgrave_VIC_3170,_Australia_-_panoramio_(1).jpg
'Pollution-free baptism for new bypass'. The Age. 28 July 2003. https://www.theage.com.au/national/pollution-free-baptism-for-new-bypass-20030728-gdw4dt.html
'M1 Monash City Link Westgate Upgrade'. Gertzel Engineering Surveyors. https://www.gertzel.com.au/portfolio/city-link/
'View from Mulgrave (Monash) Freeway bridge at Ferntree Gully Road under construction, circa 1970s'. c1976. Monash Public Library Service. flickr.com/photos/monlib/50146249668
' Aerial photograph of Mulgrave (Monash) Freeway under construction, looking north along Forster Road, Mount Waverley, undated'. Monash Public Library Service. c1977. flickr.com/photos/monlib/50197039163
The F14 was one of the longest freeways proposed in 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan. Most of it has been built despite being officially cancelled in 1973 - it's made up of the Tullamarine Freeway, Citylink and the Monash Freeway from Melbourne Airport to Hallam in the city's south-east.
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.
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My website: philipmallis.com
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MORE INFORMATION
Calder Highway Strategy, VicRoads, 1995. web.archive.org/web/20211221040530/https://www.mountalexander.vic.gov.au/files/Planning_Scheme_Background_Documents/Calder_Highway_Strategy__part2.pdf
'The City Ring Road that Melbourne Never Built', 2018. Marcus Wong. wongm.com/2018/03/city-ring-road-melbourne-never-built
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SOURCES AND CREDITS
Melbourne photo-map, Department of Lands and Survey, Aerial Survey of Victoria ; air photography by Adastra Airways Pty. Ltd. 1945. https://cat2.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b2501041
'Tullamarine Project'. Australian Centre of the Moving Image (ACMI). 1968. youtube.com/watch?v=VJObn3H32eQ&t=249s
1982-83 Annual Report. Country Roads Board. railknowledgebank.com/Presto/content/GetDoc.axd?ctID=NmQ5ZmY0YWQtNTc4NS00YzZiLTk3MTItNjEzYWQxZTgyMTRl&rID=NjU0OA==&pID=MTIzMQ==&attchmnt=VHJ1ZQ==&uSesDM=False&rIdx=MTAzOTU=&rCFU=
'Citylink near Macaulay Station', Gary Sauer-Thompson. 2012. CC-BY-NC 3.0. flickr.com/photos/sauer-thompson/8121697249
VicPlan Mapshare, Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning. 2022. https://mapshare.vic.gov.au/vicplan/
'Looking east from the Rialto Tower'. Thomas, Laurie, 1983. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/137411
'$2bn plan for Docklands'. The Australian Jewish News, p. 11, 29 September 1995.. Retrieved January 13, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article261948577
'Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme 1954: Report'. Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. 1954. https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/planning-for-melbourne/melbournes-strategic-planning-history/melbourne-metropolitan-planning-scheme-1954-report
'Map of Mulgrave and Eumemmering By-Pass Roads'. Herald & Weekly Times. State Library of Victoria, 1970. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/223499
'Fine and fast on the freeway'. The Age. 22 May 1970. news.google.com/newspapers?nid=MDQ-9Oe3GGUC&dat=19700522&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
'400 homes to go in freeway madness', Murphy Brian. Tribune, 14 November 1984. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article259491487
'Another Freeway!'. Tribune. 22 March 1978. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article260215079
'202111108 Wurundjeri Way Extension'. 14 November 2021. West Gate Tunnel Project. youtube.com/watch?v=DPDEH5xIMII&t=19s
'South Eastern Freeway Under Construction. 1961. Yarra Libraries. https://coyl.libsvic.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/search/asset/233398/0
'South Eastern Arterial (Monash Freeway), Melbourne, 1989'. Steven Pam. youtube.com/watch?v=Byj9zEzNXmM
'South Eastern-Mulgrave Arterial Road Link', Road Construction Authority. 1988. https://www.expressway.online/library/vic/pdfs/south_eastern_mulgrave_arterial_road_link.pdf
'VicRoads 1997-98 Annual Report'. VicRoads. 1998. https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1292553
'Mulgrave VIC 3170'. Maksym Kozlenko, via Wikimedia Commons. 7 April 2012. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mulgrave_VIC_3170,_Australia_-_panoramio_(1).jpg
'Pollution-free baptism for new bypass'. The Age. 28 July 2003. https://www.theage.com.au/national/pollution-free-baptism-for-new-bypass-20030728-gdw4dt.html
'M1 Monash City Link Westgate Upgrade'. Gertzel Engineering Surveyors. https://www.gertzel.com.au/portfolio/city-link/
'View from Mulgrave (Monash) Freeway bridge at Ferntree Gully Road under construction, circa 1970s'. c1976. Monash Public Library Service. flickr.com/photos/monlib/50146249668
' Aerial photograph of Mulgrave (Monash) Freeway under construction, looking north along Forster Road, Mount Waverley, undated'. Monash Public Library Service. c1977. flickr.com/photos/monlib/50197039163
