South Eastern Arterial (Monash Freeway), Melbourne, 1989
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Here is a film I made in 1989 about the South Eastern Arterial (now known as the Monash Freeway) and Gardiners Creek. It features cars, trucks, and buses of the period.
Nice old trucks & Waverley Transit (Driver’s) bus!
Good old days... My school days🙏
So in 89 the intersection between Burke and South Eastern appears to be at grade level with traffic lights. I do remember crossing intersections when the road was built I was only a child then
Yes. At least the traffic was moving!
Wow this is amazing, is almost like looking at the Dingley Bypass now!!!
God, I can just barely remember the first stage of this freeway in the 70s, from the city to Burke Rd. I think it was called South Eastern Fwy before it was named Monash Fwy. Amazing how much it has changed all the way to Pakenham today.
Any footage of Nepean Hwy widening?
The first stage stopped at Toorak Rd where gas storage tanks sat in its way.
Hey Mick, sorry, I think this is all I have
No grade separation back then!! 3:06 - speed limit is 100 but the cars all seem to be going much slower than that?? Really good footage, love it. Not that many new cars on the road back then, since car sales slumped after 1986 (partly due to the introduction of unleaded, and then the '87 recession), and wouldn't recover until mid-90s. Very few imported cars seen - the vast majority of cars were built in Australia at the time, by only a handful of manufacturers. Trucks have changed too - so many International ACCOs of all types back then!! These days, the medium truck segment is completely dominated by the Japanese, with ACCOs only used as rubbish trucks these days.
Good observations! Interesting how much times have changed, often in many subtle little ways.
shortly after the Premier at the time changed the speed limit to 60 km from 11pm to i think 6 am as it was to noisey to drive at 100
3:12 Nice seeing the Burke Road level crossing again.
Oh it hasn't changed a bit! Except for now having 10 times more traffic, road works signs all over the shop and 20ks taken off the original speed limit!
Great footage, thanks for sharing. Did you continue filming with that siren coming through? Have any emergency vehicle footage from the 80s or 90s that happened to be in any random filming done?
Hang on, I'll check.
Nope, sorry, that's where it ends.
Steven Pam Thank you. South Eastern car park this was. Love the old Aussie classics and ACCO trucks!
Ah yes, traffic lights on the freeway at Bourke Rd, John Cain's handywork if memory serves me.
@Amplass 333 Just like comrade Dan Andrews cancelling the east-west link because Xi Jinping had better ideas.
I also remember the speed limit being 60kph From Warrigal Rd to Burke Rd.
@@Jesse-B lol you're an idiot, the project faced huge backlash from the community you know? you're probably one of those dumb right wing bloke that thinks any decisions made by dan andrews/labor are related to xi jinping. feel sorry for you.
@@bjscorpio4041 that was in
the evening. There’s was a day time limit and a limit after 9 or 10pm till 7am to reduce noise for the nimbys in the surrounding homes. The speed signs flipped over or slide at the magic hour automatically.
Well done for making, keeping and making this available to us.
Lots of fatalities at those intersections on the SE Arterial then. Became much safer when brought up to freeway standard. Less fuel use and pollution by not having to stop and start at the then removed intersections also.
Thanks John. I'm amazed at how many people are watching and enjoying this. Glad I was able to save it. I wish I had filmed more general footage on the streets at the time!
So before the tunnels were built, the Monash was basically like what some of Perth's freeways (I.e. the Tonkin and Roe) were like up until the early 2010s - A mixture of at-grade and grade seperated intersections before becoming a fully grade-separated route
Nah. Basically it was 2 totally separate freeways with a big gap between them. That was always meant to be joined by another freeway. Then some bright political spark trying to appeal to nimbys came up with the idea of ‘let’s build the road joining them as a normal highway’ . So it cost a lot of money to do this, then even more to convert what was meant to be a freeway in the first place, to a freeway.
Back then cars looked like a box and now they're phasing out adobe flash player
OH 2:10 DASHBOARD CAM
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I remember those at grade intersections. and to think now its more busy more congested in peak hour and the various sections shown here which make up no more then 1 km of fwy have been completely transformed into a 8 or 9 or even 10 lane grade seperated road. and its been overhauled about 4 times now.
Easy to see why this was in a urgent need of a upgrade
wow 3.16..... mind blown..... i was age 2
I fucken love the M1
i was 14 years old at the time this was filmed acting like a idiot at school.
Well, I was 18 years old when I filmed it, also acting like an idiot at school :-)
Does anyone know when the lattice towers were created on the Monash, after watching this video it seems they have been there for a long time
Are you talking about the electricity pylons? They would probably pre-date the freeway. It was/is common to use a creek alignment for HT wires.
Thanks! They have been there for quite a long time now, as they are still are on the current freeway