The
Monash Freeway is a major urban freeway in
Victoria,
Australia, linking
Melbourne's CBD to its south-eastern suburbs and beyond to the
Gippsland region. It carries up to 180,000 vehicles per day and is one of
Australia's busiest freeways. The entire stretch of the Monash Freeway bears the designation
M1. The freeway was originally shown in the
1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F9 and F14 Freeway corridors.