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3 October 2024
Federation Trail closes for upgrade

The Federation Trail through Brooklyn will close from next week for an upgrade by the West Gate Tunnel project.

The section of the trail between Millers Road and the Kororoit Creek in Brooklyn will be fully closed at 9pm from Tuesday 8 October and reopen in 10 weeks, on Saturday 14 December.

A detour will be in place on the south side of the West Gate Freeway through Altona North and the Kororoit Creek Trail.

This detour, unlike most, will be be a compelling ride that takes in two new trail projects, which are set to open on the same day.

To accommodate the detour, the long-closed section of the Federation Trail along the West Gate Freeway will be reopened to bike traffic in its new alignment, and the new section of the Kororoit Creek Trail between Hosken Reserve and the West Gate Freeway bridge will also open.

Riders will no longer have to use Blackshaws Road because they will be able to access the trail from the eastern trailhead at Fogarty Avenue in Yarraville.

More details regarding these openings will be available in the coming days.

The main detour will be via Primula Avenue, Houston Court, over the Rosala Avenue bridge and along Rosala Avenue to Glade Street, and then Gadsden Street to Knapp Street, and across Blackshaws Road to the Kororoit Creek Trail.

There is also a local detour on the north side of the freeway using Cypress Avenue in Brooklyn, but this is not recommended for riders heading further west on the trail. It would be very unwise to attempt to use Geelong Road as a detour due to the volume of trucks and traffic speed.

The Federation Trail was an early example of a long-distance urban trail, taking advantage of the corridor of the former outfall sewer between Melbourne and Werribee.

It proved a popular connection across Melbourne’s industrial west, but has deteriorated over time and become notorious for wheel-swallowing cracks.

Now, with the West Gate Tunnel project, and the Greening the Pipeline project to revegetate and improve the total corridor, the Brooklyn section is set for major improvement.

About 2km of the trail will be resurfaced during the upgrade.

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