Many arterial road improvements are planned or underway to better link rural communities, to improve road safety, encourage economic growth, assist road freight movements, and to support local businesses, agriculture and tourism.

Projects include highway duplications and bypasses, bridge upgrades, road widening, shoulder sealing, passing lanes and other safety improvements.

In this section:

Information on some key regional road projects:

• Bass Highway Duplication – Lang Lang to Anderson
  
• Breakwater Road – Geelong
  
• Colac Lavers Hill Road – Elliminyt to Lavers Hill
  
• Geelong Ring Road
  
• Goulburn Valley Highway – Nagambie Bypass
  
• Koo Wee Rup Bypass – Koo Wee Rup
  
• Princes Highway Route Safety Program - Longwarry to the New South Wales border
  
• Princes Highway – Traralgon to Sale
  
• Princes Highway – Waurn Ponds to Winchelsea
  
• South Gippsland Highway – Sale to Longford
  
• Western Highway – Ballarat to Stawell