Hopkins Highway

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Hopkins Highway

Australia Victoria Moyne Shire location map.svg
Red pog.svg
North end
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South end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length48.5 km (30 mi) [1]
Opened1990
Route number(s) AUS Alphanumeric Route B120.svg B120 (1998–present)
Former
route number
Australian state route 104.svg State Route 104 (1990–1998)
Major junctions
North endAUS Alphanumeric Route B140.svg Hamilton Highway
Mortlake, Victoria
 AUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Princes Highway
South endBanyan Street
Warrnambool, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlementsEllerslie, Purnim, Bushfield
Highway system

Hopkins Highway is a short highway in south-western Victoria, Australia, serving to link the Hamilton Highway at Mortlake with the Princes Highway (and the western end of the Great Ocean Road nearby) at the port city of Warrnambool.

Contents

Route

Hopkins Highway begins at the intersection with Hamilton Highway on the western edge of Mortlake and runs in a south-westerly direction as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, running in close proximity to the Hopkins River (and crossing it in Ellerslie). It eventually ends in the centre of Warrnambool.

History

The passing of the Transport Act of 1983 [2] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [3] ) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads). The Hopkins Highway was declared a State Highway in December 1990, [4] from Mortlake to Warrnambool; before this declaration, the road was referred to as Warrnambool-Mortlake Road. [4]

The Hopkins Highway was signed as State Route 104 between Mortlake and Warrnambool in 1990; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, it was replaced by route B120.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [5] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hopkins Highway (Arterial #6010) between the Hamilton Highway in Mortlake and the Princes Highway at Warrnambool. [6]

Upgrades

Major intersections

LGALocation [1] [6] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Moyne Mortlake 0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route B140.svg Hamilton Highway (B140)  Geelong, Hamilton Northern terminus of highway and route B120
Ellerslie 12.88.0Ellerslie-Panmure Road  Panmure
Hopkins River 13.18.1Ellerslie Bridge
Moyne Ballangeich 16.910.5Hexham-Ballangeich Road  Hexham
Warrnambool Bushfield 41.425.7AUS Alphanumeric Route C169.svg Bridge Road (C169)  Woodford
Warrnambool 48.530.1AUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg Princes Highway (A1)  Portland, Geelong
Banyan Street  Warrnambool Southern terminus of highway and route B120
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •        Route transition

See also

Australia road sign W5-29.svg   Australian Roadsportal

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (30 December 2021). "Hopkins Highway" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  2. State of Victoria, An Act to Re-enact with Amendments the Law relating to Transport including the Law with respect to Railways, Roads and Tramways... 23 June 1983
  3. State of Victoria, An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes 30 December 1924
  4. 1 2 "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 19 December 1990. pp. 3783, 3787, 3793. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  5. State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  6. 1 2 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 935. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  7. 1 2 "Ellerslie Bridge". Victorian Heritage Database. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  8. 1 2 "Country Roads Board Victoria. Fifty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1968". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 6 January 1969. p. 19.