travel time signage was installed to assist motorists travelling on the Mornington Peninsula Freeway. In September 2018 flexible safety barriers were installed between Jetty Road and Boneo Road along the freeway. Barriers were also installed along the centre of the road which were completed in December 2018. In 2018 noise walls on the freeway have also been campaigned for in Safety Beach, Dromana, McCrae and Rosebud. 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as the F6 Freeway corridor. Proposed extensions Extensions of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway have been developed for the southern end to support growing traffic demand. Traffic demand is expected to increase by nearly 10 per cent along the Mornington Peninsula Freeway between 2021 and 2031. Southern extension (Rosebud to Blairgowrie) In July 2018 the Mornington Peninsula council conducted a Southern Peninsula Arterial Corridor Investigation with plans to extend the freeway south to Blairgowrie through the Tootgarook Wetlands. A public acquisition overlay exists from the end of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway to Melbourne Road which has reserved the land for a freeway extension. A full freeway would cost $500 million with additional bridges over the wetlands costing $3 billion in total. The freeway extension would terminate at Melbourne Road at the intersection of Canterbury Jetty Road in Blairgowrie after bypassing Rye, Tootgarook and Capel Sound. Currently where the southern section reaches Jetty Road in Rosebud, freeway conditions end, with a two-lane, single carriageway link from Jetty Road to Boneo Road. From Jetty Road the freeway was meant to adopt full freeway standards with overpasses over Jetty Road and Boneo Road, but this section has remained incomplete for over a decade. In July 2018 the Rye Internal Bypass was another project proposed to reduce traffic congestion in the area in the medium term at a cost of $5 million. The Baillieu government committed $200,000 to a congestion study for the southern peninsula which was completed in 2012. Exits and intersections Gallery See also List of freeways in Victoria, Australia Freeways in Melbourne Road transport in Victoria Freeways in Australia Notes References External links Linking Melbourne Authority: Peninsula Link Linking Melbourne Authority: Peninsula Link Final Report Highways and freeways in Melbourne Two-lane expressways Proposed roads in Australia Transport in the City of Greater Dandenong Transport in the City of Kingston (Victoria) Transport in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula Transport in the City