List of highways in Victoria

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The Great Alpine Road passing through Everton, Victoria. Everton Great Alpine Road.JPG
The Great Alpine Road passing through Everton, Victoria.
Princes Freeway at Lara Princes-freeway-lara-victoria.jpg
Princes Freeway at Lara

The highways in Victoria are the highest density in any state in Australia. Unlike Australia's other mainland states where vast areas are very sparsely inhabited "outback", population centres spread out over most of the state, with only the far north-west and the Victorian Alps lacking permanent settlement. Highways have therefore been built to service the population centres.

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The highways generally radiate from Melbourne and other major cities and rural centres with secondary roads interconnecting the highways to each other.

Most routes have higher traffic than most other states. Highways such as Hume Highway, Western Highway, South Gippsland Highway and Princes Highway have some of the heaviest traffic in Australia.

Many of the highways are built to freeway standard ("M" freeways), while most others are generally sealed and of reasonable quality.

Numbering

Victorian cities, towns, settlements and road network. Highways of Victoria.PNG
Victorian cities, towns, settlements and road network.

Victorian highway naming is straightforward. Most are generally named after the geographical regions and features, cities, towns and settlements along the way. Some are even more straightforward e.g. Western and Northern highways which radiate westwards and northwards from Melbourne. Notable exceptions include some interstate highways and some metropolitan highways.

The numbering system is based on "ring and spoke" system. The 'ring' highways (highways that circle Victoria) numbers are given in the multiple of hundreds e.g. Henty Highway (200), Murray Valley Highway (400) and Great Alpine Road (500) make the outermost ring. Midland Highway (300) and Maroondah Highway (300) is the inner ring.

The spokes generally inherit their original National Route numbers. Otherwise, east-west aligned highways are given even numbers and north-south are given odd numbers. Highways and primary roads are given numbers in multiple of tens. Other roads are given numbers which indicate their general alignment.

Freeways

Route MarkerRoads
AUS Alphanumeric Route M1.svgAUS Alphanumeric Route M1 toll.svg M1 Geelong Ring Road
Princes Freeway (west)
West Gate Freeway
CityLink (southern link)
Monash Freeway
Princes Freeway (east)
AUS Alphanumeric Route M2.svgAUS Alphanumeric Route M2 toll.svg M2 Tullamarine Freeway
CityLink (western link)
AUS Alphanumeric Route M3.svgAUS Alphanumeric Route M3 toll.svg M3 Eastern Freeway
Eastlink
Frankston Freeway
AUS Alphanumeric Route M4 toll.svg M4 West Gate Tunnel (Under Construction)
AUS Alphanumeric Route M8.svg M8 Western Freeway
AUS Alphanumeric Route M11.svg M11 Mornington Peninsula Freeway
AUS Alphanumeric Route M31.svg M31 Hume Freeway
AUS Alphanumeric Route M39.svg M39 Goulburn Valley Freeway
AUS Alphanumeric Route M79.svg M79 Calder Freeway
AUS Alphanumeric Route M80.svgAUS Alphanumeric Route M80 toll.svg M80 Western Ring Road
Metropolitan Ring Road
North East Link
AUS Alphanumeric Route M420.svg M420 South Gippsland Freeway

Primary highways

Route MarkerRoads
AUS Alphanumeric Route A1.svg A1 Princes Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A8.svg A8 Western Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A10.svg A10 Princes Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A20.svg A20 Sturt Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A39.svg A39 Goulburn Valley Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A79.svg A79 Calder Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A200.svg A200 Henty Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A300.svg A300 Midland Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A420.svg A420 Bass Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A440.svg A440
AUS Alphanumeric Route A21.svg A21
South Gippsland Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route A780.svgA780 Western Port Highway

Secondary highways

Route MarkerRoads
AUS Alphanumeric Route B12.svg B12 Mallee Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B23.svg B23 Monaro Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B75.svg B75 Northern Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B100.svg B100 Great Ocean Road
Surf Coast Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B110.svg B110 Bellarine Highway
Nepean Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B120.svg B120 Hopkins Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B140.svg B140 Hamilton Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B160.svg B160 Glenelg Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B180.svg B180 Pyrenees Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B200.svg B200 Henty Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B220.svg B220 Sunraysia Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B240.svg B240 Wimmera Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B260.svg B260 Loddon Valley Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B280.svg B280 McIvor Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B300.svg B300 Goulburn Valley Highway
Maroondah Highway
Melba Highway
Midland Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B320.svg B320 Maroondah Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B340.svg B340 Goulburn Valley Highway
Maroondah Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B360.svg B360 Maroondah Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B380.svg B380 Warburton Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B400.svg B400 Murray Valley Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B420.svg B420 Phillip Island Road
AUS Alphanumeric Route B460.svg B460 Bass Highway
Strzelecki Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route B500.svg B500 Great Alpine Road

Tertiary highways

Route MarkerRoads
AUS Alphanumeric Route C119.svg C119Skenes Creek Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C141.svg C141
  • Ballan–Daylesford Road
  • Geelong–Ballan Road
AUS Alphanumeric Route C155.svg C155Colac–Lavers Hill Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C157.svg C157Lighthouse Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C159.svg C159Beech Forest–Lavers Hill Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C162.svg C162Timboon–Port Campbell Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C166.svg C166Princetown Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C234.svg C234 Borung Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route C239.svg C239 Borung Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route C412.svg C412 Burwood Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route C444.svg C444Wilsons Promontory Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C482.svg C482 Hyland Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route C524.svg C524Buckland Gap Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C531.svg C531 Kiewa Valley Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route C536.svg C536Tawonga Gap Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C543.svg C543 Omeo Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route C605.svg C605Swan Reach Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C704.svg C704Bacchus Marsh Rd
AUS Alphanumeric Route C754.svg C754 Melton Highway
AUS Alphanumeric Route C777.svg C777

AUS Alphanumeric Route C784.svg C784

Moorooduc Highway

Urban highways

Route MarkerRoads
Australian state route 8.svg State Route 8 Western Highway
Australian state route 9.svg State Route 9 Dandenong Valley Highway
Australian state route 10.svg State Route 10 State (Lower Dandenong/Cheltenham) Highway
Australian state route 15.svg State Route 15 Warrigal Highway
Australian state route 21.svg State Route 21 Chandler Highway
Australian state route 26.svg State Route 26 Burwood Highway
Australian state route 27.svg State Route 27Plenty Valley Highway
Australian state route 28.svg State Route 28 Mountain Highway
Australian state route 29.svg State Route 29 Hoddle Highway
Australian state route 34.svg State Route 34 Maroondah Highway
Australian state route 40.svg State Route 40 State (Bell/Springvale) Highway
Australian state route 55.svg State Route 55 Hume Highway

In addition, several metropolitan roads have been given highway designation, mainly in Melbourne. For details see List of highways in Melbourne

See also