The upgrade of Westall Road has allowed north–south through traffic to avoid this area.

The northern section of Stage 1 - an extension of Westall Road from Centre Road in Clayton South north to Princes Highway in Clayton - was built as a six-lane dual-carriageway road using unreinforced concrete pavement, opening in October 1992.

The works involved creating a 2.8 km divided four lane (two lanes each way) semi-freeway standard road to bypass the busy and congested centre of Springvale.

The reason being VicRoads determined the stretch of road too short to have a limit of 100 km/h.

A bicycle path was completed along the entire length of the road.