Hume region

Maintaining our roads is an essential part of keeping millions of people and hundreds of thousands of tonnes of freight on the move across Victoria.

We regularly inspect roads and carry out emergency repairs as needed, while more extensive works, such as road rebuilding and rehabilitation, are delivered during the warmer, drier months from September to May to ensure repairs are long-lasting.

We will update this page with the new program of resurfacing and rehabilitation in the coming weeks.

Current works

While our major road rebuilds occur during the warmer months, maintaining the road network is a year-round priority. We’re delivering more proactive maintenance during the cooler months when roads experience the greatest stress from rainfall and flooding. 

Our crews are out every day inspecting roads for hazards and defects, repairing potholes, surface issues and damaged signs, cleaning gutters and drains, mowing and clearing litter. 

Throughout the winter period, we’re doing more works to keep our main freeways open and keep people and freight on the move.  

We’ve got additional crews on the network repairing damage caused by recent rain and delivering emergency repairs where and when they’re needed. While the weather is cooler, we’ll continue to deliver increased levels of proactive works to protect against rain and flooding, ensuring our roads stand up to the growing levels of extreme weather we’re seeing.

Murray River Road over Burrowye Creek, Burrowye

Following recent heavy rain and flooding events in north east Victoria our structures team has identified repair works required to the embankment of Burrowye Creek underneath the Murray River Road in Burrowye. 

We’ve put in place a lane closure and reduced speed limit of 40km/h over Burrowye Creek bridge on the Murray River Road. 

Oversize Overmass (OSOM) vehicles will not be able to travel over the bridge and will need to seek an alternative route. 

We will provide further updates as works progress. 

Hume Freeway rehabilitation works, Sunday Creek

Rehabilitation works on a section of the Hume Freeway at Sunday Creek, between Broadford-Wandong Road and McDonalds Road, will take a break over the coming weeks, with crews expected to return during more favourable weather conditions in October.

During the works suspension reduced speed limits will be in place for the safety of road users.

Maintenance program 2025-26

Over the last year, hundreds of kilometers have been repaired, resurfaced or rebuilt across the state as part of the 2025-26 maintenance season. This includes rebuilding and resurfacing works across the Hume region. 

This year’s program targeted high-traffic areas and busy freight routes, including some of the most important roads connecting communities in the north east.

As part of the program, rehabilitation works on the following roads in Hume region were completed:
 

• Hume Freeway, at the Main Road and Broadford - Kilmore Road Overpass at Tallarook (520m) in Strathbogie Shire
• Midland Highway, between Mill Street and Mooroopna-Murchison Road at Mooroopna (385m) in City of Greater Shepparton
• Epping-Kilmore Road
  • between Kelby Lane and South Mountain Road at Wallan (490m) in Mitchell Shire
  • between Caladenia Court and Broadford-Wandong Road at Heathcote Junction (980m) in Mitchell Shire
• Wangaratta-Whitfield Road, between Peipers Lane and Mansfield-Whitfield Road at Whitfield (1.8km) in Rural City of Wangaratta
• Goulburn Valley Highway, between the Goulburn Valley Highway/Maroondah Highway interchange and Ridds Road at Cathkin (700m) in Murrindindi Shire

Resurfacing works were also carried out on many roads across the Hume region. 

Get in touch

If you have any questions about these projects, please contact DTP:

• Email: [email protected]
• Call: 133 778