South Gippsland Highway | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 256 km (159 mi) [1] |
Opened | 1933 |
Route number(s) |
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Former route number |
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Major junctions | |
West end | Princes Highway Dandenong South, Melbourne |
East end | Princes Highway Sale, Victoria |
Location(s) | |
Major settlements | Cranbourne, Koo Wee Rup, Lang Lang, Korumburra, Leongatha, Foster, Yarram, Longford |
Highway system | |
The South Gippsland Highway is a partially divided highway in Victoria, Australia which connects the city of Melbourne with the South Gippsland region of Victoria, ending in the town of Sale. The highway begins at Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway), Dandenong. At the Greens Road intersection, it adopts Metropolitan Route 12 until Pound Road, then continues until the South Gippsland Freeway / Western Port Highway interchange where it becomes the M420. The M420 continues through Cranbourne and Koo Wee Rup until the Bass Highway turnoff, at which point the road is then designated A440 onwards to Sale. From the Bass Highway junction, the highway is undivided. The South Gippsland Highway is the gateway from Melbourne to many attractions including Wilsons Promontory and Phillip Island as well as being an important road for farmers in Gippsland.
The highway commences in Dandenong, branching from the Princes Highway, and heads in a general south-east direction at first. It is mostly a dual carriageway with two lanes in either direction, until the Bass Highway turnoff to Phillip Island, after which it is entirely an undivided highway. It passes through the Cranbourne area, and then through or close to the Gippsland towns of Tooradin, Koo Wee Rup, Lang Lang, Nyora, Korumburra, Leongatha, Foster, Welshpool and Yarram, before heading north to rejoin the Princes Highway at Sale.
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [2] 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 (later VicRoads). The South Gippsland Highway was declared a State Highway in 1933, [3] cobbled together from roads between Dandenong and Nyora, and between Sale and Yarram (for a total of 83 miles); before this declaration, these roads were referred to as (Main) South Gippsland Road and Sale-Yarram Road. [4] In 1939, another section between Foster through Welshpool to Yarram was added, [5] along the former Foster-Yarram Road. [6] In the 1947/48 financial year, another section between Nyora via Korumburra and Leongatha to Meeniyan was added, [7] along the former Loch-Nyora Road, Bena-Korumburra Road and Korumburra-Leongatha Roads. [5] In the 1965/66 financial year, the last section between Meeniyan and Foster was added, [8] completing its present-day alignment at this stage.
Conversion to dual carriageways at the western end began in 1975, initially between the South Gippsland Freeway and Cranbourne; a distance of 17 km. [9] The final link in the duplication of the highway between the Princes Highway, Dandenong and Bass Highway opened in the early 1990s between Princes Highway and Pound Road. [10]
The South Gippsland Highway was signed as State Route 180 between Dandenong and Sale on 13 December 1985, the first road in Victoria signed with a State Route; [11] with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route M420 between Lynbrook and Lang Lang, and B440 between Lang Lang and Sale (which was upgraded to A440 when highway upgrades along South Gippsland Highway raised the quality of the road in 2003).
The Gippsland railway line crossing just south of the intersection with Princes Highway in Dandenong South was removed in 3 August 2021. The contract was awarded in March 2020, [16] with construction starting in October 2020 [17] on a new road bridge over the rail line on an alignment just east of the original level crossing to a new intersection with Princes Highway; construction was completed and the new alignment was opened to traffic in 3 August 2021. [18]
LGA | Location [1] | km [1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Greater Dandenong | Dandenong South | 0 | 0.0 | Princes Highway (National Alt Route 1) – Dandenong, Melbourne, Berwick, Warragul | Western terminus of highway |
0.1 | 0.062 | Gippsland railway line | |||
0.5 | 0.31 | Dandenong Bypass – Keysborough, Moorabbin | |||
1.8 | 1.1 | Greens Road (Metro Route 12) – Mordialloc, Keysborough | Concurrency with Metro Route 12 | ||
3.3 | 2.1 | Pound Road (Metro Route 12 east) – Hampton Park, Narre Warren Pound Road West (west) – Dandenong South | |||
Dandenong South, Lynbrook, Hampton Park | 4.5 | 2.8 | South Gippsland Freeway (M420) – Chadstone, City Western Port Highway (M780) – Hastings, Flinders | Partial cloverleaf interchange; route M420 north and southeast from here | |
Casey | Lynbrook | 7.3 | 4.5 | Hallam Road – Hampton Park, Hallam Evans Road – Lyndhurst, Cranbourne West | |
Cranbourne North, Cranbourne | 10.2 | 6.3 | Thompsons Road (Metro Route 6) – Carrum, Berwick | ||
Cranbourne | 13.8 | 8.6 | Sladen Street (Mero Route 4 west, C407 east) – Frankston, Berwick | ||
Cranbourne, Cranbourne East | 14.8 | 9.2 | Cameron Street (C404) – Narre Warren, Belgrave, Lilydale | ||
Devon Meadows, Clyde | 20.1 | 12.5 | Clyde-Five Ways Road (C778 north) – Clyde, Berwick Fisheries Road (south) – Cannons Creek, Pearcedale | ||
Tooradin, Devon Meadows, Blind Bight | 24.7 | 15.3 | Baxter-Tooradin Road (C781) – Baxter, Pearcedale | Roundabout | |
Tooradin | 31.4 | 19.5 | Dalmore Road – Cardinia | ||
Cardinia | Koo Wee Rup | 36.4 | 22.6 | Rossiter Road (C421) – Koo Wee Rup, Longwarry, to Koo Wee Rup Road (C422) – Pakenham | Roundabout |
38.9 | 24.2 | Sybella Avenue (C419) – Koo Wee Rup | |||
Lang Lang | 45.9 | 28.5 | McDonalds Track (C429) – Lang Lang, Nyora | ||
47.5 | 29.5 | Westernport Road (C431) – Lang Lang, Drouin | Roundabout | ||
49.7 | 30.9 | Bass Highway (M420) – Wonthaggi, Phillip Island | Partial Y interchange: southbound entrance to and northbound exit from Bass Highway only Route transition: route M420 continues south, western terminus of route A440 | ||
South Gippsland | Loch, Nyora | 60.9 | 37.8 | Lang Lang-Nyora Road (C434) – Nyora, Poowong | |
Loch | 68.7 | 42.7 | Victoria Road – Loch, to Loch-Wonthaggi Road – Almurta, Wonthaggi Loch-Poowong Road – Poowong | ||
69.7 | 43.3 | Former South Gippsland railway line | |||
Bena | 77.0 | 47.8 | Former South Gippsland railway line | ||
Korumburra | 81.5 | 50.6 | Warragul-Korumburra Road (C425) – Poowong, Warragul | ||
82.0 | 51.0 | Korrumburra-Wonthaggi Road (C437) – Wonthaggi, Inverloch | |||
Leongatha | 96.3 | 59.8 | Strzelecki Highway (B460 northeast) – Mirboo North, Morwell Bass Highway (B460 southwest) – Inverloch, Wonthaggi, Phillip Island | ||
96.9 | 60.2 | Ogilvy Street (C454) – Dumbalk | |||
Meeniyan | 110.0 | 68.4 | Tarwin Lower (C443) – Venus Bay | ||
113.3 | 70.4 | Farmers Road (C455) – Dumbalk, Mirboo North | |||
114.0 | 70.8 | Meeniyan-Promontory Road (C444) – Fish Creek, Wilsons Promontory | |||
Foster | 134.3 | 83.5 | Fish Creek-Foster Road (C445) – Fish Creek, Wilsons Promontory | ||
Agnes | 152.4 | 94.7 | Barry Road (C447) – Agnes | ||
Welshpool | 156.1 | 97.0 | Port Welshpool Road (C451 south) – Port Welshpool Woorarra Road (north) – Boolarra | ||
Wellington | Alberton | 177.8 | 110.5 | Yarram-Port Albert Road (C452) – Port Albert | |
Yarram | 185.2 | 115.1 | Tarra Valley Road (C484) – Tarra Valley | ||
187.5 | 116.5 | Hyland Highway (C482) – Traralgon | |||
Woodside | 203.5 | 126.4 | Carrajung-Woodside Road (C453) – Carrajung, Traralgon | Concurrency with route C453 over Bruthen Creek bridge | |
203.7 | 126.6 | Bruthen Creek | |||
203.9 | 126.7 | Woodside Beach Road (C453) – Woodside Beach, to McLoughlins Road (C459) – McLoughlins Beach | |||
Longford | 248.4 | 154.3 | Seaspray Road (C496) – Seaspray, to Garretts Road (C497) – Dutson | ||
249.7 | 155.2 | Longford-Loch Sport Road (C485) – Golden Beach, Loch Sport | Concurrency with route C485 | ||
250.1 | 155.4 | Rosedale-Longford Road (C485) – Rosedale | |||
Sale | 255.8 | 158.9 | Princes Highway – Traralgon, Bairnsdale, Orbost | Roundabout; eastern terminus of highway and route A440 | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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