Mallee Highway

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Mallee Highway

Victoria
Location Mallee Hwy.svg
General information
TypeHighway
Length374 km (232 mi) [1]
Opened1947 (as Ouyen Highway)
1990 (as Mallee Highway)
Route number(s) AUS Alphanumeric Route B12.svg B12 (1997/1998–present)
Former
route number
Australian national route 12.svg National Route 12 (1955–1997/1998)
Major junctions
West endAUS Alphanumeric Route A8.svg Dukes Highway
Tailem Bend, South Australia
 
East endTooleybuc Road
VIC/NSW border
Location(s)
Region Murray and Mallee, [2] Loddon Mallee [3]
Major settlements Lameroo, Pinnaroo, Murrayville, Walpeup, Ouyen, Manangatang
Highway system

Mallee Highway [4] (formerly Ouyen Highway in Victoria) is a highway in south-eastern South Australia and north-western Victoria, running mostly across the Mallee plains. It forms part of the shortest route between Adelaide and Sydney.

Contents

Route

Mallee Highway begins at the intersection with Dukes Highway just south-east of Tailem Bend in South Australia. It runs east as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, through cereal-growing farmland at the southern end of the Murray Mallee to Pinnaroo near the border with Victoria. There, it crosses the Ngarkat and Browns Well Highways.

It continues east into Victoria through Ouyen, where it crosses the Calder Highway, travels to Manangatang and eventually to Piangil, where it meets with the Murray Valley Highway. It continues along Tooleybuc Road two kilometres to the north where it continues east, until it meets the New South Wales border and the Murray River at Tooleybuc, where the highway officially ends. The road continues through New South Wales, eventually meeting the Sturt Highway at Balranald.

History

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [5] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board, now VicRoads. The Ouyen Highway was declared a State Highway within Victoria in the 1947/48 financial year, [6] from the Calder Highway at Ouyen via Murrayville to the South Australian border (for a total of 81 miles); before this declaration, the roads were referred to as Ouyen-Pinnaroo Road. [7]

With the passing of the Transport Act of 1983 , [8] itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924, the name was later changed to the Mallee Highway and extended east along the former Ouyen-Piangil Road and Tooleybuc Road to Piangil in December 1990. [9]

The highway was signed as National Route 12 between Tailem Bend and Ouyen in 1955, later extended with the road to Piangil in 1990. With both states' conversion to their newer alphanumeric systems in the late 1990s, its former route number was updated to B12 in 1997 within Victoria, and in 1998 in South Australia.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [10] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Mallee Highway (Arterial #6650), beginning at the South Australian border at Panitya and ending at the New South Wales border in Piangil. [11]

Major intersections and towns

StateLGA [12] Location [1] [11] [13] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
South Australia The Coorong Tailem Bend 0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route A8.svg Dukes Highway (A8)  Adelaide, Keith, Bordertown, Melbourne Western terminus of highway and route B12
Moorlands 14.59.0Old Dukes Highway  Coomandook
Sherlock 29.718.5Kulkawurra Road (north)  Karoonda
Tynan Road (south)  Yumali
Southern Mallee Lameroo 98.561.2Billiat Road  Alawoona Roundabout
Pinnaroo 132.782.5AUS Alphanumeric Route B57.svg Ngarkat Highway (B57 south)  Bordertown, Naracoorte Concurrency with route B57
139.386.6AUS Alphanumeric Route B57.svg Browns Well Highway (B57 north)  Loxton, Renmark
State border145.090.1South Australia – Victoria state border
Victoria Mildura Panitya 148.492.2Panitya Road  Panitya
Murrayville 166.4103.4Murrayville-Nhill Road  Nhill
Boinka 205.9127.9Boinka South Road  Tutye
Underbool 226.3140.6Underbool-Patchewollock Road  Patchewollock
Walpeup 246.1152.9AUS Alphanumeric Route C247.svg Walpeup-Patchewollock Road (C247)  Patchewollock, Hopetoun
Ouyen 273.0169.6Ouyen-Patchewollock Road  Patchewollock, Hopetoun
275.3171.1AUS Alphanumeric Route A79.svg Calder Highway (A79 south)  Ballarat, Bendigo, Melbourne Concurrency with route A79
275.5171.2AUS Alphanumeric Route A79.svg Calder Highway (A79 north)  Red Cliffs, Mildura
Swan Hill Manangatang 330.0205.1AUS Alphanumeric Route C251.svg Robinvale–Sea Lake Road (C251)  Robinvale, Sea Lake
Piangil 371.1230.6AUS Alphanumeric Route B400.svg Murray Valley Highway (B400 south)  Swan Hill, Melbourne Concurrency with route B12
373.0231.8AUS Alphanumeric Route B400.svg Murray Valley Highway (B400 north)  Robinvale
374.4232.6Tooleybuc Road  Tooleybuc, Balranald Eastern terminus of highway and route B12; road continues as Yanga Way to Balranald
State borderVictoria – New South Wales state border
New South Wales Murray River Tooleybuc Bridge
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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