Calder Freeway is a
freeway linking
Melbourne to the outskirts of
Bendigo in
Victoria,
Australia, superseding sections of the
Calder Highway. Originally just a short spur of the
Tullamarine Freeway linking to the Calder Highway in
Keilor in suburban
Melbourne, it has been extended in phases to Ravenswood South subsuming all the older Calder Highway stretches. It continues beyond as
Calder Highway through to Bendigo and to
Mildura. The
Victorian Government completed the duplication of the Calder Highway from Melbourne to Bendigo to
Freeway conditions on 20 April 2009, several months earlier than expected.