Dandenong Valley Highway
Dandenong Valley Highway Victoria | |
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Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong | |
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 | |
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria | |
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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
Dandenong Valley Highway | |||
Northbound | Distance from Dandenong (km) |
Southbound | |
Traffic Lights (clockwise from highway) Mountain Highway to Wantirna Waldhem Road Mountain Highway to Bayswater | |||
End Stud Road (Dandenong Valley Highway) | -- | Start Stud Road (Dandenong Valley Highway) | |
Wantirna, Ringwood Boronia Road Boronia Boronia Road |
-- | Boronia Boronia Road Wantirna Boronia Road | |
continues as | |||
Wantirna South (Westfield Knox) | -- | Wantirna South (Westfield Knox) | |
To ; Melbourne, Ferntree Gully, Belgrave Burwood Highway |
-- | Ferntree Gully, Belgrave, Burwood, Melbourne; To Burwood Highway | |
To ; Glen Waverley, Wantirna South High Street Road |
-- | Ferntree Gully, Glen Waverley; To High Street Road | |
Scoresby | -- | Scoresby | |
To ; Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully Ferntree Gully Road |
Ferntree Gully, Oakleigh; To Ferntree Gully Road | ||
Ferntree Gully Kelletts Road |
-- | Lysterfield Kelletts Road | |
Rowville | -- | Rowville | |
To ; Mulgrave, Oakleigh Wellington Road Lysterfield, Emerald Wellington Road |
-- | Lysterfield, Emerald Wellington Road To ; Mulgrave, Oakleigh Wellington Road | |
Endeavour Hills Bergins Road |
-- | Endeavour Hills, Doveton Bergins Road | |
Brady Road | -- | Brady Road | |
Warragul, Traralgon Monash Freeway |
-- | Warragul, Traralgon Monash Freeway | |
Chadstone, Melbourne Monash Freeway |
Chadstone, Melbourne Monash Freeway | ||
Noble Park, Endeavour Hills Heatherton Road |
-- | Endeavour Hills, Noble Park Heatherton Road | |
David Street | -- | David Street | |
Dandenong, Doveton Clow Street |
-- | Doveton, Dandenong Clow Street | |
continues as Stud Road | -- | continues as Foster Street | |
Dandenong | 0.0 | Dandenong | |
continues as Foster Street | -- | End Foster Street | |
Traffic Lights (clockwise from Dandenong) Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) to Berwick and Frankston Foster Street (Cheltenham Road) to Keysborough and Mentone Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) to Oakleigh and Melbourne | |||
-- | duplexes with Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) | ||
Webster Street | -- | Webster Street | |
duplexes with Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) | -- | ||
Traffic Lights (clockwise from Frankston) Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) to Dandenong and Rowville Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) to Berwick and Warragul | |||
End Dandenong-Frankston Road | -- | continues as Dandenong-Frankston Road | |
GIPPSLAND RAIL LINE | -- | GIPPSLAND RAIL LINE | |
To ; Keysborough, Berwick Dandenong Bypass |
-- | Cranbourne, Keysborough; To Dandenong Bypass | |
To ; Mordialloc, Narre Warren Greens Road |
-- | Narre Warren, Mordialloc; To Greens Road | |
Abbotts Road | -- | Abbotts Road | |
To ; Carrum, Keysborough; Cranbourne, Berwick Thompsons Road |
-- | Cranbourne, Patterson Lakes, Carrum; To Thompsons Road | |
To Lathams Road Carrum Downs, Cranbourne Hall Road |
-- | Carrum Downs Hall Road To Lathams Road | |
Seaford Seaford Road Skye Ballarto Road |
-- | Skye Ballarto Road Seaford Seaford Road | |
Portsea Peninsula Link |
-- | Portsea Peninsula Link | |
To Melbourne; Springvale Peninsula Link |
To Melbourne; Springvale Peninsula Link | ||
Hastings Frankston Freeway via Skye Road |
-- | Hastings Frankston Freeway via Skye Road | |
Melbourne Frankston Freeway |
Melbourne Frankston Freeway | ||
continues as Dandenong-Frankston Road | -- | End Dandenong-Frankston Road | |
Traffic Lights and Railway Crossing (clockwise from Frankston Freeway) Skye Road Dandenong Road East FRANKSTON RAIL LEVEL CROSSING Dandenong Road (Dandenong Valley Highway) to Frankston Overton Road to Nepean Highway Wells Road to Seaford | |||
End Dandenong Road | -- | continues as Dandenong Road | |
continues as Dandenong Road | -- | Young Street | |
Young Street | continues as Fletcher Road | ||
Roundabout (clockwise from Dandenong Road) Fletcher Road to Cranbourne and Flinders Bayside Shopping Centre Car Park Fletcher Road to Nepean Highway | |||
Start Fletcher Road (Dandenong Valley Highway) | -- | End Fletcher Road (Dandenong Valley Highway) | |
Traffic Lights (clockwise from highway) Nepean Highway to Mornington and Portsea Nepean Highway to Mordialloc and Melbourne |
See also
Australian Roads portal