Dandenong Valley Highway Stud Road, Foster Street, Frankston–Dandenong Road, Dandenong Road West, Fletcher Road | |
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Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 37 km (23 mi) [1] |
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Major junctions | |
North end | Stud Road Wantirna South, Melbourne |
South end | Frankston-Dandenong Road Frankston, Melbourne |
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Major suburbs | Scoresby, Rowville, Dandenong, Carrum Downs |
Highway system | |
The Dandenong Valley Highway is an urban highway stretching almost 40 kilometres from Bayswater in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. This name covers many consecutive streets and is not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Stud Road, Foster Street, Dandenong-Frankston Road, Dandenong Road West and Fletcher Road. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completion, as well to avoid confusion between declarations.
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.
Stud Road starts at the intersection with Mountain Highway in Bayswater and heads south as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, crossing Burwood Highway at Wantirna South (and the beginning of Dandenong Valley Highway), where it widens to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road (sharing a dedicated bus lane on-and-off) and continues south through Scoresby to Rowville, crossing Wellington Road and narrowing back to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues south to Dandenong, narrowing further to a four-lane, single-carriageway road south past David Street, changes names to Foster Street south of Clow Street, to the intersection with Princes Highway through central Dandenong. Running concurrent along Princes Highway, it resumes running south along Frankston–Dandenong Road as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Dandenong South and Carrum Downs, where it eventually crosses west under the Frankston railway line (at the end of Dandenong Valley Highway) as Overton Road, then turns immediately south along Dandenong Road West as a dual-lane single-carriageway road, all the way along Fletcher Road, where it briefly becomes a four-lane, dual-carriageway road again before it terminates at Nepean Highway in Frankston.
The elimination of the railway crossing where Dandenong–Frankston Road crossed the Pakenham railway line in Dandenong commenced in 1956, carried out by the Dandenong Shire Council, with assistance from Victorian Railways and the Country Roads Board, [2] and completed in 1957, with the eastern half of a four-lane overpass over the railway completed and open to traffic in September, and the western half completed not long afterwards. [3]
The entire alignment (as its constituent roads) was signed as Metropolitan Route 9 between Wantirna and Frankston in 1965. It was re-routed from Dandenong Road East and Beach Street through Frankston to its current alignment when the Beach Street railway crossing was eliminated in 1991.
The passing of the Transport Act of 1983 [4] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [5] ) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads). The Stud Highway and Dandenong-Frankston Highway were declared State Highways in March 1990, [6] from Burwood Highway in Wantirna South to the Princes Highway in Dandenong (as Stud Highway), and from there to the Wells Road/Overton Road intersection just north of Frankston (as Dandenong–Frankston Highway). These two highways were fused into one only 9 months later, and re-declared as the Dandenong Valley Highway in December 1990, [7] in the same alignment as the previous highways, from Wantirna South to Frankston; however all roads were known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [8] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads declared the road as Dandenong Valley Highway (Arterial #6090), from Burwood Highway in Wantirna South to Wells Road crossing underneath the Frankston railway line in Frankston, [9] while re-declaring the remaining roads within the corridor as Stud Road (Arterial #5796), [10] Klauer Road (today Klauer Street, Wells Road and Dandenong Road West) (Arterial #5159) [11] and Fletcher Road (Arterial #5974), [12] and as before, all roads are still presently known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.
In April 2024 the section of Stud Road from the Monash Freeway to Heatherton Road in Dandenong was reduced from 80km/h to 60km/h after a number of fatal accidents. Two pedestrians had been killed in the previous six years, with the local council calling for additional safety measures such as a pedestrian crossing or overpass for access from the western side of Stud Road across to Dandenong Stadium. [13] [14] [15] [16]
LGA | Location [1] [9] [10] [11] [12] | km [1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Knox | Wantirna | 1.1 | 0.68 | Stud Road (Metro Route 9) – Wantirna, Ringwood, Boronia | Metro Route 9 continues west along Boronia Road towards Wantirna |
Wantirna South | 3.0 | 1.9 | Burwood Highway (Metro Route 26) – Ferntree Gully, Belgrave, City | Northern terminus of Dandenong Valley Highway (declared) | |
4.0 | 2.5 | High Street Road (Metro Route 24) – Glen Waverley, Wantirna South | |||
Scoresby | 6.4 | 4.0 | Ferntree Gully Road (Metro Route 22) – Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully | ||
Rowville | 7.8 | 4.8 | Kelletts Road – Ferntree Gully | ||
9.8 | 6.1 | Wellington Road (Metro Route 18 west/C413 east) – Mulgrave, Oakleigh, Lysterfield, Emerald | |||
9.9 | 6.2 | Bergins Road – Endeavour Hills, Doveton | |||
Greater Dandenong | Dandenong North | 13.4 | 8.3 | Monash Freeway (M1) – Pakenham, Warragul, Chadstone, City | |
Dandenong | 14.6 | 9.1 | Heatherton Road (Metro Route 14) – Noble Park, Endeavour Hills | ||
16.3 | 10.1 | Clow Street – Dandenong, Doveton | Stud Road north, Foster Street south | ||
17.0 | 10.6 | Princes Highway (Alt National Route 1 north) – City Foster Street (Metro Route 10 west) – Mentone, Black Rock | Concurrency with route National Alt Route 1 Foster Street east of Lonsdale Street, Dandenong-Frankston Road south of Lonsdale Street | ||
17.8 | 11.1 | Princes Highway (Alt National Route 1 east) – Berwick | |||
18.1 | 11.2 | Gippsland railway line | |||
Dandenong South | 18.7 | 11.6 | Dandenong Bypass – Keysborough, Clayton | ||
19.8 | 12.3 | Greens Road (Metro Route 12) – Mordialloc, Keysborough | |||
Frankston | Carrum Downs | 26.6 | 16.5 | Thompson Road (Metro Route 6) – Carrum, Cranbourne, Clyde North | |
31.7 | 19.7 | Mornington Peninsula Freeway (M11) – Dingley Village, Frankston, Mount Martha, Rosebud | |||
Frankston North | 32.3 | 20.1 | Seaford Road (west) – Seaford Ballarto Road (east) – Skye | ||
Seaford | 35.0 | 21.7 | Frankston Freeway (M3) – Ringwood, Frankston South, City | ||
35.2 | 21.9 | Skye Road (east) – Frankston Dandenong Road East (south) – Frankston | Dandenong–Frankston Road north, Overton Road west | ||
Seaford–Frankston boundary | Frankston railway line | ||||
Frankston | Overton Road (west) – Frankston Wells Road (north) – Seaford | Overton Road east, Dandenong Road West south Southern terminus of Dandenong Valley Highway (declared) | |||
36.4 | 22.6 | Fletcher Road | Dandenong Road West north, Fletcher Road west | ||
36.8 | 22.9 | Nepean Highway (Metro Route 3) – Mornington, Portsea, Mordialloc, City | Western terminus of Fletcher Road | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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