Monash Freeway Inbound, Melbourne, Australia

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FreewayBrent

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@jameswormsley460
@jameswormsley460 8 жыл бұрын
lol awesome ride n' excellent tune,also wow lots of Australian semi trucks along the highway--like a boss!!!
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the volume of trucks definitely threw me off; wasn't expecting that at all. Thrown in with the mix of other vehicles, this was one hectic ride, all the way into the CBD. Thanks for watching!
@jameswormsley460
@jameswormsley460 8 жыл бұрын
FreewayBrent no problem buddy
@nickbalderson5300
@nickbalderson5300 5 жыл бұрын
Chronically congested, links the CBD to suburbs. Reminds me of Calgary's Deerfoot trail
@MKTTransportVideos
@MKTTransportVideos 8 жыл бұрын
It's weird watching these Australian ones - it's like watching American and British roads all at the same time! Keep up the good work.
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 7 жыл бұрын
Ha, yeah...that's actually a pretty good way to describe what you've observed!
@TheNatasha66
@TheNatasha66 8 жыл бұрын
Quite a bit of traffic! Thanx for the upload!
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Indeed, this was one hectic drive. Felt like I was being thrown back onto a busy California freeway. Thanks for watching!
@schwenda3727
@schwenda3727 8 жыл бұрын
+FreewayBrent at least IMO, high volume can actually complement a vid in many cases! Gridlock... 🙅 NO
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
You picked up on why I chose the song that I did...thought it complemented both the pace of traffic...and the curves of the freeway...especially in the last minute.
@kingprone7846
@kingprone7846 3 жыл бұрын
gotta love the trucks in the overtaking lanes.
@scana1979
@scana1979 6 жыл бұрын
Since this video was shot the section beyond from Eastlink has been widened to 5 lanes each way with the Hallam bypass section widened from 2 to 3 lanes as far as Clyde Road, Berwick. The second stage will see the section shown here from Eastlink to Warrigal Road widened to 5 lanes each way using the centre median - the wire rope barrier will be replaced with a concrete New Jersey barrier and the 1970's truss sign gantries will be replaced with modern counterparts. The 3 lane section will extend out to Cardinia Road Pakenham.
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 6 жыл бұрын
So I've noticed! I follow VicRoads on Facebook and see their videos on current and future projects along the Monash, and am excited about all the recent projects. That freeway definitely needs all the lanes it can get.
@scana1979
@scana1979 6 жыл бұрын
Ultimately the Dingley Freeway will likely take some of the traffic load - most of it is built between Dandenong South and Moorabbin but to an arterial road standard with at-grade intersections. Western Port Highway is also set to be upgraded to freeway standard down the track with acquisition overlays now in place for interchanges at the current intersections and roundabouts which will put more pressure on the Monash corridor.
@SteveWilliamsDTM
@SteveWilliamsDTM 8 жыл бұрын
Nice ride, Brent! Thanks for sharing it with us.
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome, good sir. Thank you for watching!
@RyanMoran1992
@RyanMoran1992 5 жыл бұрын
This freeway is about to be upgraded from 4 lanes to 5 in each direction between Eastlink and Warrigal Rd. Oh and no trucks are allowed in the right lane now either. As someone who lives in Berwick, studies at Monash Uni and works in the city, I feel like I live on this road lol
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I read about VicRoads' plans for the Monash. It definitely needs the extra lanes, that's for sure.
@GoJoGeoff
@GoJoGeoff 8 жыл бұрын
Great ride Brent. There's finally some serious talk about keeping the right lane truck free - we'll see
@schwenda3727
@schwenda3727 8 жыл бұрын
You have absolutely no idea how much I was facepalming when I saw that; let alone the semi's moving to the inside IMMEDIATELY after merging! lol where's the "how's my driving???" phone # for that???
@GoJoGeoff
@GoJoGeoff 8 жыл бұрын
Haha - the truck driving on this freeway is horrendous
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
That really did throw me off a bit, seeing how trucks could utilize the right lane at free-will on a wide, busy urban freeway like that. Is this allowed all over Australia? Glad you enjoyed! I still have a few more Melbourne-area videos to work on.
@schwenda3727
@schwenda3727 8 жыл бұрын
+GoJoMedia Geoff here in 'Merica, a truck restriction for the inside lane(s) is pretty much standard at this point except for a couple select areas! My home state of Illinois currently has NO left lane restrictions for semi's on 6+ lane interstates except for Chicago despite there being a couple busy areas throughout the state...
@GoJoGeoff
@GoJoGeoff 8 жыл бұрын
+FreewayBrent there are a couple of Melbourne freeways with the Centre lane restriction (eastern & princes west m1- maybe others), BUT the Monash is the corridor for these beasts inc b doubles. When you see these things side by side completely blocking traffic - just wow.
@JTransport
@JTransport 4 жыл бұрын
That motorway is all upgraded now. Looks totally different
@MrMeehan1993
@MrMeehan1993 2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@mrcondom7591
@mrcondom7591 8 жыл бұрын
I live in Melbourne & people do not get how bloody clogged this freeway gets! JAYSUS. Thank god I live North-East not near the M1
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 7 жыл бұрын
I experienced the traffic first-hand, haha. Could be a lot worse though; the traffic congestion here in California is insane!
@TheSolarcatcher
@TheSolarcatcher 8 жыл бұрын
Great ride Brent! That is one busy road!
@djscrizzle
@djscrizzle 8 жыл бұрын
This looks quite American... Well done, Aussies... And Brent!
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Indeed. VERY American-like. Think of the differences as being more like what you might between California vs. Nevada, or Texas vs. Florida. In other words, you could pick up a rental car and immediately figure out how to drive in Australia. The road design, signage...it's pretty much all the same.
@yoloyoller
@yoloyoller 4 жыл бұрын
@@FreewayBrent there is a big difference between the speeding enforcement though
@bradp4788
@bradp4788 8 жыл бұрын
Best city in Australia
@Veroniafamily
@Veroniafamily 7 жыл бұрын
Its best in the world
@victoriantransportvideos
@victoriantransportvideos 3 жыл бұрын
Hello Could you tell me where those signs are from in the corners
@leroyybrown
@leroyybrown 8 жыл бұрын
I wish we had roads like that in Sydney! Trucks down the outside lane is typical in Australia
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Well hey, at least the M4 will soon resemble something like the Monash, when work wraps up!
@leroyybrown
@leroyybrown 8 жыл бұрын
+FreewayBrent People screaming about Westconnex saying will be like LA
@00crashtest
@00crashtest 7 жыл бұрын
It's funny how on the same road in the SAME STATE, the beginning part (up to the Junction with M3) looks EXACTLY like a UK motorway (except with American signs), but the rest of the road is simply just an EXACT mirror of a California freeway (except with hatched gore points and no yellow line by the median). Even the overhead signs have the same truss structure. In the Mid West and East Coast of America, a more tubular truss is used.
@camerontrickey6057
@camerontrickey6057 7 жыл бұрын
Is the 4th lane in Australian freeways like the HOV lane?
@camerontrickey6057
@camerontrickey6057 7 жыл бұрын
The M-1 reminds me of the i-10 I must say that traffic in Victoria and Queensland are much smoother then Sydney traffic or LA traffic. As I've seen on the net since I don't live in the U.S.A
@scana1979
@scana1979 7 жыл бұрын
The truss gantry was a Country Roads Board Victoria standard used in the 1970's ad 80's which was replaced by a tubular steel beam design in the 1990's. The M3 was built as a toll road opening in 2008 (was originally to be a free road called the 'Scoresby Freeway') and the freeway in from Warrigal Road has fairly new overhead signage from an upgrade project.
@scana1979
@scana1979 7 жыл бұрын
HOV lane on right - Used on some urban freeways but not this one
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 7 жыл бұрын
As scana1979 clarified, the 4th lane is not a HOV lane. They're actually referred to as T2 or T3 lanes in Australia (HOV 2 or 3+). T2/T3 lanes seem to be more prevalent on city streets than freeways.
@RoadTubeRichard
@RoadTubeRichard 8 жыл бұрын
Well done Brent! Very nice!
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, sir! Still catching up on some comments, as I've been all over the place since releasing this video. I have a few more videos from Melbourne, before I shift my focus back to Sydney.
@socarboy
@socarboy 8 жыл бұрын
Very nice...Freeway Brent down under!
@jameswormsley460
@jameswormsley460 8 жыл бұрын
lol ooohhhhhhh yeah!!
@leftisland2603
@leftisland2603 3 жыл бұрын
Looks like San Jose, CA
@tmghui888
@tmghui888 8 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! It just looked like an American freeway. I have never been to Australia and I know there are differences between the US and Australia, but the country as a whole is very similar to America, isn't it? I have also read that all the major cities population in Australia are just its metropolitan population as counted to its cities population unlike in America. I like that, instead of having so many separate cities.
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
It definitely looks *very* US-like. Dare I even say it looks similar to what Caltrans would construct. On the surface, the US and Australia look and feel very similar...only by spending some time there, do you start to pick up on some of the cultural differences between the 2 countries, but assimilating from one country to the other isn't difficult.
@tmghui888
@tmghui888 8 жыл бұрын
+FreewayBrent In terms of way of life, I have heard it is virtually the same as western countries like the US, Canada, UK.
@scana1979
@scana1979 7 жыл бұрын
Tat Hui Generally yes but varies by state - in Victoria the road authority VicRoads (formerly Road Construction Authority and before that Country Roads Board) kept consistent with American standards hence what you see - particularly the 1970s sections before Warrigal Road
@thesoundofthesuburbs
@thesoundofthesuburbs 6 жыл бұрын
Australia IS a WESTERN COUNTRY.
@gregorygherkins1884
@gregorygherkins1884 5 жыл бұрын
@@thesoundofthesuburbs Yes, A Western country in the geographical far east! It's topsy turvy!
@edwardgosstray9784
@edwardgosstray9784 8 жыл бұрын
Have you through onto Mornington peninsula freeway peninsula link before
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
I didn't get a chance to drive it in January. Might return to Melbourne sometime in 2017. For now, I'm flying back to Sydney in September and driving up north for a road trip and vacation around Brisbane!
@edwardgosstray9784
@edwardgosstray9784 8 жыл бұрын
Can you do some motorway in sydney
@edwardgosstray9784
@edwardgosstray9784 8 жыл бұрын
on google maps i travel the road trip from melbourne to sydney sydney to canberra from canberra to cann river then on the highway from cann river to my friend trish"s house in 107 Victoria street briagolong vic 3860 then briagolong to wurruk bennison drive wurruk drive around wurruk bennison drive wurruk vic 3850
@joshyman55
@joshyman55 8 жыл бұрын
Where do you live now
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
I still reside just outside of San Francisco. I recorded this, and a bunch of other videos from around Sydney and Melbourne, back in January of this year.
@TransCanadaPhil
@TransCanadaPhil 8 жыл бұрын
Good job Brent! Looks like you're a pro at the left-hand driving now :-D
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Damn, I've missed so many comments on this video. Too busy for my own good, lol. Yeah, I got the hang of it, right as soon as I made my first turn out of the car rental lot. It's a lot easier than it looks from pictures or videos.
@dave11686
@dave11686 8 жыл бұрын
Very cool!
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@JTransport
@JTransport 7 жыл бұрын
Melbourne traffic is always like this
@thevultrantransituniverse1487
@thevultrantransituniverse1487 8 жыл бұрын
Was it hot in Australia when you went there?
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
It was actually quite comfortable in Melbourne. Daytime highs were about 70-75, although it can certainly swell to 100+ during a heat wave. Sydney, on the other hand was either way too rainy (3 straight days where it was raining buckets), or far too hot. One day, in particular...it got up to 114 in the western suburbs were I was staying, with high humidity...would have preferred Vegas heat over that!
@thevultrantransituniverse1487
@thevultrantransituniverse1487 8 жыл бұрын
FreewayBrent Yeah. Melbourne was way beyond 100 degrees in early 2009 when there was bushfires around Victoria.
@davids.1981
@davids.1981 8 жыл бұрын
FreewayBrent it is mona Ash free whey
@schwenda3727
@schwenda3727 8 жыл бұрын
lol you sure you didn't mirror one of your suburban California vids??? The scenery looks equally as pretty as over there aside from the obvious Aussie touches...
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Haha yeah...the scenery and the traffic levels...combined with the concrete overpasses and guardrail style. Looks pretty California-like to me!
@davids.1981
@davids.1981 8 жыл бұрын
FreewayBrent Is This Mona Ash's Road
@adammuggleton4107
@adammuggleton4107 2 жыл бұрын
This freeway has now been widened to 5 and 6 lanes each direction
@MrMeehan1993
@MrMeehan1993 2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@tigerwesti1
@tigerwesti1 8 жыл бұрын
Awesome video Brent, as usual! And hey, you used a song that I actually had in mind for future productions. I hope you don't mind if I use it as well. ;)
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Go for it, man!
@PeterShieldsukcatstripey
@PeterShieldsukcatstripey 4 жыл бұрын
so much less stressful this way.
@calzac100
@calzac100 7 жыл бұрын
2:25 2:05 Truck Crazy Passes Coming In Bad Parts
@RalphNgOfficial
@RalphNgOfficial 6 жыл бұрын
Is freeway means doesn't have to pay? Thanks
@dragsink9776
@dragsink9776 6 жыл бұрын
yep, and "tollway" means you do
@omnarayanyadav4096
@omnarayanyadav4096 4 жыл бұрын
Hello 👋 bro I like Australia , I'm from india
@BlueSkiesAbove39
@BlueSkiesAbove39 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, its a x1000000 times better than India.
@davids.1981
@davids.1981 8 жыл бұрын
A Sunday Stroll Down Mona Highway In Sydney NSW Australia
@omnarayanyadav4096
@omnarayanyadav4096 4 жыл бұрын
I will come to Australia after ten years ,note it in your dairy
@BlueSkiesAbove39
@BlueSkiesAbove39 3 жыл бұрын
10 years or 100 years?
@marcussavina4080
@marcussavina4080 8 жыл бұрын
.... what's the song! lol
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 8 жыл бұрын
Hey there. :-) I always list the song credits at the end of every video. For this one, it's "Peanut Butter Jelly" by Galantis.
@dragsink9776
@dragsink9776 6 жыл бұрын
Do eastlink !!
@davids.1981
@davids.1981 8 жыл бұрын
Monash Manure Tires With Brent's Elephant Head
@davids.1981
@davids.1981 8 жыл бұрын
It's Pronounced Mohne-A
@davids.1981
@davids.1981 8 жыл бұрын
Also Melbourne Is Pronounced As Mel-Born
@mucjavanese4582
@mucjavanese4582 4 жыл бұрын
Di Australia mobil truk boleh masuk jalur kanan. Di Indonesia tidak boleh...
@sagittariusone2753
@sagittariusone2753 4 жыл бұрын
Australia looks similar to the USA
@davids.1981
@davids.1981 8 жыл бұрын
Mona Ash
@calzac100
@calzac100 7 жыл бұрын
and everyone is passing you
@stealth797
@stealth797 4 жыл бұрын
Bro just keep the video at the same speed... SOOO annoying with the slowing down and speeding up
@FreewayBrent
@FreewayBrent 4 жыл бұрын
It's synchronized with the music.
@davids.1981
@davids.1981 8 жыл бұрын
Also Know As Old Fart Nitwit's Street
@lemondude6174
@lemondude6174 8 жыл бұрын
Tsrif
@jameswormsley460
@jameswormsley460 8 жыл бұрын
lol
@WayToManyAssassins
@WayToManyAssassins 7 жыл бұрын
Bloody Australians thinking they're Americans calling them "freeways" lmao
@susanaespiritu310
@susanaespiritu310 7 жыл бұрын
Aussies are like British-Americans
@WayToManyAssassins
@WayToManyAssassins 7 жыл бұрын
+Highper Gaming lol they are nothing like americans
@susanaespiritu310
@susanaespiritu310 7 жыл бұрын
Australia reminds me of Murica
@s125ish
@s125ish 6 жыл бұрын
Motorway s in the Uk. But Aussie s use kms
@scana1979
@scana1979 2 жыл бұрын
In an Australian context “motorways” refer to either freeways or tollways. In Victoria they make the difference in the name while New South Wales and Queensland refer to the lot as motorways.
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