Burwood Highway

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Burwood Highway

Toorak Road

Burwood Highway outside Tally Ho Business Park, Burwood East.jpg
Burwood Highway through Burwood East
Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne location map.svg
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West end
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East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length29.7 km (18 mi) [1]
Gazetted October 1913 (as Main Road) [2]
1959/60 (as State Highway) [3]
Route number(s)
  • Australian state route 26.svg Metro Route 26 (1965–present)
    (Hawthorn–Upper Ferntree Gully)
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route C412.svg C412 (1998–present)
    (Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave)
  • Concurrencies:
  • Australian state route 22.svg Metro Route 22 (1965–present)
    (Ferntree Gully–Upper Ferntree Gully)
  • Australian state route 5.svg Metro Route 5 (1989–present)
    (through Ferntree Gully)
Former
route number
Australian state route 26.svg Metro Route 26 (1965–1998)
(Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave)
Major junctions
West endAustralian state route 26.svgToorak Road
Hawthorn, Melbourne
 
East endAUS Alphanumeric Route C404.svgMonbulk Road
AUS Alphanumeric Route C404.svgAUS Alphanumeric Route C412.svgBelgrave–Gembrook Road
Belgrave, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major settlements Burwood, Wantirna South, Ferntree Gully, Upwey
Highway system

Burwood Highway (and its western section as Toorak Road) is a major transportation link with Melbourne's eastern fringe at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges, linking the suburbs of Hawthorn and Belgrave. [4] The highway is considered a major link for people who live in the Dandenong Ranges and acts as one of the major feeder roadway in the area along with Canterbury Road, Ferntree Gully Road, EastLink and Wellington Road.

Contents

Route

Burwood Highway commences at the interchange with CityLink and Monash Freeway at Hawthorn and heads east as Toorak Road, a four-lane single carriageway (often clogged with heavy traffic) through the southern fringes of Camberwell, with tram services continuing east along the road where it meets Camberwell Road. At the intersection with Warrigal Road in Burwood, it changes name to Burwood Highway and widens to become a six-lane dual carriageway highway, with a dedicated central median for tram tracks, carrying the Route 75 service through Burwood East to Vermont South. It passes the Westfield Knox shopping centre in Wantirna South, heading in a south-easterly direction through Ferntree Gully until it meets Mount Dandenong Tourist Road at Upper Ferntree Gully, where it narrows back to a four-lane single carriageway road, until it eventually terminates at a roundabout with Monbulk and Belgrave–Gembrook Roads in Belgrave.

History

The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912 [5] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. (Main) Ferntree Gully Road was declared a Main Road, from Fentree Gully through Upwey to Belgrave (and continuing west through Wheelers Hill to Oakleigh), on 20 October 1913. [2]

The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1958 [6] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [7] ) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Burwood Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1959/60 financial year, [3] from Warrigal Road in Burwood via Vermont South, to Upper Ferntree Gully for a total of 12.5 miles (20.1 km), subsuming the original declaration of (Main) Ferntree Gully Road until Upper Ferntree Gully as a Main Road; before this declaration, this road was also referred to as Burwood Road. [3] Toorak Road was declared a Main Road on 9 May 1983, [8] from the intersection with South Eastern Freeway in Hawthorn to meet the western end of Burwood Highway in Burwood.

The declaration of the highway was extended a further 4.0 km (2.5 mi) east along Monbulk Road to Belgrave by VicRoads in June 1990, [9] and west along Toorak Road to the South Eastern Arterial at Hawthorn in October 1993, [10] subsuming its original declaration as a Main Road, however this last section was still known (and signposted) as Toorak Road. The tram line was extended 1.7 km (1.1 mi) along the central median through Burwood East from Middleborough Road to Blackburn Road in July 1993. [11]

Burwood Highway was signed as Metropolitan Route 26 between Burwood and Belgrave in 1965; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, the section between Upper Ferntree Gully and Belgrave was replaced by route C412.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [12] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared Burwood Highway (Arterial #6750) from Monash Freeway in Hawthorn to Belgrave-Gembrook Road in Belgrave. [4]

Major intersections

LGALocation [1] [4] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Stonnington KooyongMalvernHawthorn tripoint 0.00.0Australian state route 26.svg Toorak Road (Metro Route 26 west)  Toorak, South Yarra Western terminus of highway (declared)
Metro Route 26 continues west along Toorak Road
AUS Alphanumeric Route M1 toll.svg CityLink (M1 north) – City, Geelong
AUS Alphanumeric Route M1.svg Monash Freeway (M1 south)  Chadstone, Dandenong
Single-point urban interchange
Boroondara Hawthorn 0.10.062Auburn Road  Kew
Hawthorn East 0.40.25Tooronga Road  Malvern
Camberwell 1.30.81Australian state route 17.svg Burke Road (Metro Route 17)  Caulfield, Camberwell
2.61.6Glen Iris Road  Glen Iris
3.22.0Australian state route 30.svg Camberwell Road (Metro Route 30) north-west  Camberwell, Hawthorn No right turn from Camberwell Road to Toorak Road westbound
BoroondaraWhitehorse boundary CamberwellBurwood boundary5.03.1Australian state route 15.svg Warrigal Road (Metro Route 15)  Oakleigh, Chadstone, Surrey Hills Eastern end of Toorak Road
Western end of Burwood Highway (sign-posted)
Whitehorse Burwood 6.23.9Elgar Road  Doncaster
7.14.4Australian state route 47.svg Station Street (Metro Route 47)  Box Hill, Huntingdale
BurwoodBurwood East boundary8.25.1Australian state route 23.svg Middleborough Road (Metro Route 23)  Doncaster, Clayton, Mordialloc
Burwood East 9.05.6Australian state route 13.svg Blackburn Road (Metro Route 13)  Blackburn, Clayton
Burwood EastForest HillVermont South tripoint11.57.1Australian state route 40.svg Springvale Road (Metro Route 40)  Glen Waverley, Nunawading
Knox WantirnaWantirna South boundary14.99.3Australian state route 28.svg Mountain Highway (Metro Route 28)  Bayswater, Wantirna
15.49.6AUS Alphanumeric Route M3 toll.svg EastLink (M3)  Dandenong, Frankston, Ringwood, Melbourne Diamond interchange
17.610.9Australian state route 9.svg Stud Road (Metro Route 9)  Bayswater, Scoresby
Wantirna South 18.811.7Australian state route 24.svg High Street Road (Metro Route 24 south)  Glen Waverley, Glen Iris, Scoresby
Lewis Road (north)  Wantirna South
KnoxfieldFerntree Gully boundary19.712.2Australian state route 7.svg Scoresby Road (Metro Route 7)  Scoresby, Bayswater, Croydon
Ferntree Gully 21.613.4Australian state route 22.svg Ferntree Gully Road (Metro Route 22 west)  Scoresby, Oakleigh
Commercial Road (north)  Ferntree Gully
Western terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 22
22.313.9Australian state route 5.svg Dorset Road (Metro Route 5 north)  Boronia, Lilydale Concurrency with Metro Route 5
22.714.1Australian state route 5.svg Glenfern Road (Metro Route 5 south)  Lysterfield, Narre Warren
23.414.5Brenock Park Drive (south)  Lysterfield
Selman Avenue (north)  Ferntree Gully
KnoxYarra Ranges boundary Upper Ferntree Gully 25.415.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C415.svg Mount Dandenong Tourist Road (C415)  Olinda, Mount Dandenong Eastern terminuses of Metro Routes 22 and 26
Western terminus of route C412
Yarra Ranges Tecoma 28.117.5Glenfern Road  Rowville
Belgrave 29.718.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C404.svg Monbulk Road (C404 north)  Monbulk, Lilydale
AUS Alphanumeric Route C404.svgAUS Alphanumeric Route C412.svg Belgrave–Gembrook Road (C404/C412 east)  Gembrook, Narre Warren
Terrys Avenue (west)  Tecoma
Eastern terminus of highway
Route C412 continues east along Belgrave-Gembrook Road

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