However, the CityLink tollway system was built without including provision for cyclists along several sections including the Bolte Bridge.
The council area covered the suburbs of Hawthorn, Hawthorn East and parts of Glen Iris, and was bounded by the Yarra River to the west, Barkers Road to the north, Gardeners Creek and CityLink (formerly South Eastern Freeway) to the south and Burke Road to the east.
Hird completed a degree as a civil engineer in 1998, and in that capacity worked as a consultant on the CityLink project.
Its fate was permanently sealed by the construction of the Bolte Bridge, part of CityLink, across its entrance in 1999.
Apart from this "National Alternative Route 1" route and "C***" route (in the outer metropolitan areas - such as Werribee and Berwick), the M1 Freeway route intersects (Monash Freeway/CityLink/West Gate Freeway/Princes Freeway) and this carries the much higher volume of traffic, including congestion in the peak periods, serving as the major, most direct and quickest route for the "1" route in Australia.
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These two freeways have been linked by the southern link of the CityLink tollway.
In February, he launched a $5 million study into traffic flow along Hoddle Street between CityLink and the Eastern Freeway.
Transurban, which owns and operates the CityLink tollway in Melbourne and the M2 Hills Motorway toll road in Sydney, said that it had agreed to acquire a 99-year concession on the Pocahontas Parkway for a total cost of $US611 million (A$815 million).
Burnley's location in inner-suburban Melbourne is well known to Melburnians due to the naming of the Burnley Tunnel near the area, a major part of Melbourne's CityLink transport network.
Both events were broadcast live to the world for many hours, involving the movement of record amounts of data by CityLink.
Satellite is available from Farmside and Wireless Nation for people in areas unserviced by broadband, and fibre is being developed by several companies in individual cities, including TelstraClear, CityLink and Vector.
The Wellington Internet Exchange (WIX) is an Ethernet-based neutral peering point running over the CityLink metropolitan network in Wellington, New Zealand.
Aside from the local stage carriage, West Coast Motors has since 1986 run express services on behalf of Citylink, predominantly on the Campbeltown to Glasgow service, but also on routes serving Oban, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fort William, Inverness and the Isle of Skye.