Editing West Gate Freeway (section)

===Timeline of construction===
*1971 – Lower Yarra Freeway, initial {{convert|4|mi|km}} opened from Princes Highway to Williamstown Road on 7 April 1971, originally 3 lanes in each direction, at a cost of $14 million.<ref name="CRB58AR">{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286196 |title=Country Roads Board Victoria. Fifty-Eighth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1971 |newspaper=Country Roads Board of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=1 November 1971 |page=2 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}</ref>
*1978 – West Gate Bridge, opened 15 November 1978, by the Premier, the Hon. R J Hamer ED, MP; with freeway extension from the bridge to Rogers Street<ref name="CRB66AR">{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286204 |title=Country Roads Board Victoria. Sixty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1979 |newspaper=Country Roads Board of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=28 September 1979 |page=9 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}</ref>
*1985 – Tolls removed from West Gate Bridge, 17 November 1985<ref name="RCA86AR">{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286932 |title=Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986 |newspaper=Road Construction Authority of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=24 November 1986 |page=19,30 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}</ref>
*1985 – Extended 1.5km from Rogers Street to Johnson Street, opened December 1985<ref name="RCA86AR" />
*1987 – Extended 2.1km from Johnson Street to Kings Way, single carriageway eastbound, opened December 1987<ref name="RCA88AR">{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286934 |title=Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1988 |newspaper=Road Construction Authority of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=24 September 1988 |page=27 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}</ref>
*1988 – Extended 2.1km from Johnson Street to Kings Way, single carriageway westbound, opened October 1988; total cost for both carriageways to Kings Way/Power Street $185 million<ref name="RCA88AR" />
*1991 – Widening to three lanes in both directions between Princes Highway and Millers Road.<ref name="VR91AR">{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1292549 |title=VicRoads Annual Report 1990-91 |newspaper=[[VicRoads]] |location=Melbourne |date=9 October 1991 |page=39 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}</ref> (this possibly conflicts with information given in CRB's 58th Annual Report, which states the freeway opened with three lanes in each direction in 1971, whilst omitting that the third lane only existed between Millers Road and Williamstown Road<ref name="CRB58AR" />).
*2000 – Widening to four lanes in both directions between the West Gate Bridge and Laverton.<ref name="VR00AR">{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1292619 |title=VicRoads Annual Report 1999-2000 |newspaper=[[VicRoads]] |location=Melbourne |date=19 October 2000 |page=29 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}</ref>