page_title: Geelong Ring Road
section_title: Sections
hierarchical_section_title: Geelong Ring Road / Sections
caption_attribution_description: Map of Geelong metropolitan area, Victoria, Australia.
context_page_description: The Geelong Ring Road is a freeway ring road in Australia that extends for 27 km beside Geelong's western suburbs from the Princes Freeway at Corio to the Princes Highway at Waurn Ponds. It also connects to the Midland Highway towards Ballarat, and the Hamilton Highway. Sections one and two were officially opened 14 December 2008, with section three on 14 June 2009. Section four recently opened in January 2013 extending to the Princes Highway at Mount Moriac, which now avoids the narrow and windy road from Waurn Ponds towards Winchelsea.
context_section_description: The project was renamed the Geelong Ring Road on 20 February 2007.
  Construction on the Geelong Ring Road began in early 2006 with the freeway section to Waurn Ponds scheduled for completion in 2009. A total of $384 million from the Victorian and Federal Governments was committed initially to fund the first three sections of the project.
  The Geelong Ring Road (freeway type) was to be constructed in three sections as follows:
  Section 1: Princes Freeway, Corio to Midland Highway, Bell Post Hill
  Section 2: Midland Highway, Hamlyn Heights to Hamilton Highway, Fyansford
  Section 3: Hamilton Highway, Fyansford to Princes Highway, Waurn Ponds
  There was much local debate on the proposed route for Section 3. The final decision was made on 7 July 2006, while construction commenced in September 2007. It was ultimately decided that there would be no toll when the Geelong Ring Road opened to traffic.
  Section 4: split into three sub-sections:
  Stage 4A (Connection from Geelong Ring Road to Anglesea Road)
  Stage 4B (Connection from Anglesea Road - Princes Highway West)
  Stage 4C (Surf Coast Highway connection, later renamed Baanip Boulevard)
  In October 2007, during the 2007 Federal election campaign the Labor party promised $107.5 million for the fourth stage of the road. It was made up of $45 million for stage 4B, on top of their promise made in September for $62.5 million towards Stage 4A. In May 2008 stages 4A and 4B were given the go ahead, with State Premier John Brumby announcing $65 million in funding for stage 4B, in addition to earlier State Government funding of $63 million for stage 4A. Running from the Princes Highway at Waurn Ponds; it will run from Anglesea Road near Hams Road, through the Blue Circle Quarry to the Princes Highway, near Draytons Road.
  On 17 December 2008 a $62 million contract was awarded to Fulton Hogan to design and build section 4A of the ring road to Anglesea Road.
  The State and Federal Governments have also each committed $110 million to duplicate the Princes Highway to Winchelsea. An extra stage connecting the road to the Surf Coast Highway is also being investigated, but the Government has not put a timeframe on when a final decision will be made.
  A shared bicycle and pedestrian pathway has also been built along the freeway from Broderick Road, Corio to Church Street, Hamlyn Heights. Built at a cost of $4 million, the trail will not connect into the Geelong bicycle network, due to a short missing link between Church Street and the Fyansford Common.
caption: Map detailing the planned route of the Geelong Ring Road (green dotted line).