Healesville Freeway is included an a option for North East Link

About this corridor

This 40 km corridor would connect with EastLink south of Ringwood and travel east using part of the proposed Healesville Freeway Reserve.
It was initially considered that this corridor would be suitable for a road with no tunnel to cater for trucks. Preliminary investigations have found that tunnels and bridges would be required to minimise impacts on sensitive areas and avoid steep inclines.
This route is indicative only. It is subject to further technical, engineering and other studies.

http://northeastlink.vic.gov.au/project/project-corridors/corridor-d

Joining Melbourne's outer east to Eastlink, the Eastern Freeway and the Monash Freeway

© Main Road Victoria metropolitan freeways

The Healesville Freeway is a proposed freeway in the eastern suburbs.

Starting at EastLink with a full freeway junction, it will head north east finally joining Mooroolbark Road, Lilydale.

The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F9 Freeway corridor.

With Melbourne's growing population and increased reliance on private vehicles, it is important that the foresight of reserving this land for a future freeway is not lost to other uses.

VicRoads completed a strategic review of the Healesville Freeway Reservation in 2009. As
a result, VicRoads determined that the section of the reservation between Springvale
Road, Vermont South and Boronia Road, Vermont will not be required for road purposes.

Approximately 8.5 kilometers of the reservation has already been lost.  Originally the reservation started in Box Hill South adjacent to Gardiner's Creek and ran to Springvale Road Vermonth South.