Do you know when this section was originally opened to traffic? Can’t seem to find a date anywhere.

Thanks for the tip – I went back in time on Google Earth and the March 2006 view shows the original setup, with just an exit ramp from the Mornington Peninsula Freeway. The current setup was created following the completion of EastLink.

The transition between the original highway alignments and the replacement freeway bypasses is a topic I’ve been meaning to cover.

NSW Roads & Maritime Services has covered the Old Hume Highway in some detail.

https://oldhumehwy.transport.nsw.gov.au/old-hume-hwy-history.html

https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2023/history-begins-with-a-road.pdf

Thanks for the links, especially that massive interchange in Connecticut!

My first introduction to ghost ramps online was mostly interchanges in the USA, the ones at home fly under the radar since they’re far smaller.

There’s also one road a few miles from me that my school bus took me past every day on the route back home that’s now blocked by concrete barriers and had it’s street sign and Dead End sign taken down(the last photos I can find of them intact are from 2007). Got curious about that one too and I found out that the nearby private-airport forced the few people that lived there to move out so they could expand the airport but it’s been over a decade since that road was blocked off and there’s still been no expansion: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4121191,-87.8780871,3a,75y,270h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8Kh1eTsf2NhpQh4R_O8wSA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

The U.S. definitely does do things bigger, the most fascinating ghost ramps for me is this partially finished four-lane highway stack in Farmington, Connecticut: https://www.ctmq.org/ghost-highway-ramps/

Yes

This one?