Eastlink moving along at a nice pace, business breakfast told

WORK is well advanced all along the 45 kilometre Eastlink toll road, says Southern and Eastern Integrated Transport Authority (SEITA) chief executive Ken Mathers said
Mr Mathers told the Casey Business Development Group’s July breakfast meeting at Olivers on Clyde in Berwick that work had started on bridges in the Dandenong and Frankston areas.
Bridge construction over the Princes Highway will begin later this year.
Mr Mathers said the project was Australia’s biggest ever road project and would employ thousands of people until completion in 2008.
The freeway, popularly known as the Scoresby Freeway, will have 86 bridges.
Mr Mathers said the bridges were being built early to provide easy truck access to the work.
The freeway will have shared use paths along the entire route.
The interchange with Monash Freeway will be one of the biggest and busiest freeway interchanges in Victoria.
Eastlink will have nine bridges at the Monash interchange and will pass under the Monash Freeway. The interchange will provide movements in all directions except southeast.