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Western Freeway

0 km · Central Victoria

A pothole 'the length of a small car' in the westbound lanes, pictured re-emerging a week after it was patched.
The Courier, Ballarat · 27 August 2026

This is somebody else's published assessment, recorded here with its source. It is not a report on this register and it cannot support a damage claim — for that you need a photograph, a location and a date, which is what reporting a pothole does.

The line drawn for this section on the map comes from dtp_road_within_locality.

Report a pothole on Western Freeway

What has been photographed here since

Nothing on the register for Western Freeway yet. A photograph with a date is the part The Courier, Ballarat cannot give you and a driver can — add one.

Who maintains it

A corridor this long usually crosses several council areas, and the arterial itself is frequently the state's rather than any of theirs. Pinning the pothole on the report form resolves which one applies.

Suburbs it runs through