Dandenong Valley Highway
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Dandenong Valley Highway | |
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Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong | |
Coordinates |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 30 km (19 mi) |
Route number(s) | State Route 9 (Boronia Road – Nepean Highway) |
Major junctions | |
North end | Mountain Highway (State Route 28), Bayswater, Melbourne |
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South end | Nepean Highway (State Route 3), Frankston, Melbourne |
Location(s) | |
Major suburbs | Scoresby, Rowville, Dandenong, Carrum Downs |
Highway system | |
The Dandenong Valley Highway (also predominantly known as Stud Road and Dandenong-Frankston Road) stretches almost 30 kilometres from Wantirna South in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. For its entire length, its main name is not actually Dandenong Valley Highway, and very few locals use it. The traffic on the highway has been significant over the years with the worst bottlenecks at Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully Road, Wellington Road, Princes Highway, and Thompsons Road, but since the opening of the EastLink, the traffic burden has significantly reduced along the highway with the north–south tollway, opening to traffic on 29 June 2008.
Route
Dandenong Valley Highway begins at its junction with the Nepean Highway, in central Frankston. It heads as a two-lane, two-way road alongside the Frankston railway line to the Frankston Freeway. It then roughly heads north east as a four lane dual carriageway to Dandenong, the centre of which the road runs through as a four lane single carriageway. After Dandenong, the road again becomes a four lane dual carriageway, heading north, through Rowville, Scoresby and Westfield Knox shopping centre in Wantirna South. At Boronia Road in Wantirna, the road which formerly narrowed down to one lane. now continues on in its dual-carriageway form, before eventually terminating at Mountain Highway, in Bayswater.
Otherwise known as
There are a variety of street names which exceed the Dandenong Valley Highway status which includes:
- Stud Road (from Bayswater to Dandenong)
- Foster Street (within central Dandenong)
- Princes Highway (Lonsdale Street) (within central Dandenong)
- Dandenong-Frankston Road (from Dandenong to Frankston North)
- Dandenong Road West (from Frankston North to Frankston)
- Fletcher Road (within central Frankston)
Major intersections
LGA | Location[1] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Knox | Bayswater | 0 | 0.0 | Mountain Highway (State Route 28) – Wantirna, Bayswater | Also known as Stud Road |
Wantirna | 1.1 | 0.68 | Boronia Road (State Route 36) – Wantirna, Ringwood, Boronia | ||
Wantirna South | 3.0 | 1.9 | Burwood Highway (State Route 26) – Melbourne, Ferntree Gully, Belgrave | ||
4.0 | 2.5 | High Street Road (State Route 24) – Glen Waverley, Wantirna South | |||
Scoresby | 6.4 | 4.0 | Ferntree Gully Road (State Route 22) – Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully | ||
Rowville | 7.8 | 4.8 | Kelletts Road – Ferntree Gully | ||
9.8 | 6.1 | Wellington Road (State Route 18) – Mulgrave, Oakleigh / – Lysterfield, Emerald | |||
9.9 | 6.2 | Bergins Road – Endeavour Hills, Doveton | |||
Greater Dandenong | Dandenong North | 12.9 | 8.0 | Brady Road | |
13.4 | 8.3 | Monash Freeway (M1) – Warragul, Traralgon, Chadstone, Melbourne | |||
Dandenong | 14.6 | 9.1 | Heatherton Road (State Route 14) – Noble Park, Endeavour Hills | ||
15.4 | 9.6 | David Street | |||
16.3 | 10.1 | Clow Street – Dandenong, Doveton | Stud Street north of here, Foster Street south of here | ||
17.0 | 10.6 | Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) (State Route 9) – Berwick, Frankston, Oakleigh, Melbourne / Foster Street (Cheltenham Road) (State Route 10) – Keysborough, Mentone | Duplex with Lonsdale Street | ||
17.3 | 10.7 | Webster Street | |||
17.8 | 11.1 | Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) (A1) – Berwick, Warragul | duplex with Lonsdale Street north of here; Dandenong-Frankston Road south | ||
18.1 | 11.2 | Gippsland railway line | |||
Dandenong South | 18.7 | 11.6 | Dandenong Bypass (State Route 49) – Cranbourne, Keysborough, Berwick | ||
19.8 | 12.3 | Greens Road (State Route 12) – Mordialloc, Narre Warren | |||
21.8 | 13.5 | Abbotts Road | |||
Frankston | Carrum Downs | 26.6 | 16.5 | Thompsons Road (State Route 6) – Carrum, Keysborough, Cranbourne, Berwick | |
30.2 | 18.8 | Lathams Road / Hall Road – Carrum Downs, Cranbourne | |||
31.7 | 19.7 | Peninsula Link (M11) – Portsea, Melbourne, Springvale | |||
Frankston North | 32.3 | 20.1 | Seaford Road – Seaford / Ballarto Road – Skye | ||
Seaford | 35.0 | 21.7 | Frankston Freeway (M3) – Hastings, Melbourne | ||
35.2 | 21.9 | Skye Road / Overton Road | Frankston railway line | ||
Frankston | 36.4 | 22.6 | Young Street | Dandenong Road north of here; Fletcher Road west | |
36.6 | 22.7 | Bayside Shopping Centre car park | |||
36.8 | 22.9 | Nepean Highway (State Route 3) – Mornington, Portsea, Mordialloc, Melbourne | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
See also
References
- ^ a b "Dandenong Valley Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 13 February 2017.