South Road, Melbourne

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South Road

General information
Type Road
Length8.1 km (5.0 mi) [1]
Route number(s) Australian state route 14.svg Metro Route 14
Major junctions
East endAustralian state route 14.svgAustralian state route 87.svg Dingley Bypass
Moorabbin, Melbourne
 
West endAustralian state route 33.svg Beach Road
Brighton, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbs Moorabbin, Bentleigh East, Bentleigh, Brighton East, Hampton, Brighton

South Road is a major east-west arterial road in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Contents

Route

South Road begins at the intersection of Warrigal Road and Dingley Bypass in Moorabbin and ends at Beach Road in Brighton. It travels west as a 6-lane dual carriageway with intersections at Chesterville Road, East Boundary Road, Jasper Road and Nepean Highway. It then reduces to four lanes after Nepean Highway and then intersects at Bluff Road, Hampton Street and New Street before ending at Beach Road in Brighton next to Brighton Beach railway station.

History

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [2] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads declared South Road (Arterial #5845) from Warrigal Highway in Oakleigh South to Beach Road in Brighton. [3] The road is still presently known (and signposted) as Mountain Highway along its entire length.

South Road Extension (2007-16)

The South Road Extension ran along the Dingley Freeway route from Warrigal Road in Moorabbin to Old Dandenong Road in Heatherton. This was designed to remove traffic from White Street, Mordialloc, as it was experiencing heavy local traffic congestion as a result of the most direct route linking the Mornington Peninsula Freeway with the Nepean Highway, along with Boundary and Wells Road.

The 1 km extension commenced construction in September 2006 and was completed by the end of 2007, at a cost of $9.3 million for the South Road extension alone, but cost $24.5 million when combined with the associated projects.

The works involved constructing a two lane road to bypass a stretch of Old Dandenong Road which travelled through a residential area to Warrigal Road. A bicycle path was also constructed along the length of the extension. The extension also involved improvements to Old Dandenong Road and surrounding intersections as well as permanently blocking access to Old Dandenong Road north of the extension. The extension has a speed limit of 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph).

Despite the road having successfully removed traffic from Old Dandenong Road (between Warrigal Road and the current South Road connection) it had also created a major bottleneck at the intersection of Kingston and Old Dandenong Road, particularly during peak hour.[ citation needed ]

The project was later duplicated and overwritten by the Dingley Bypass, which cut Old Dandenong Road in half in its vicinity.

Major intersections

LGALocation [1] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Glen Eira-Kingston boundary Bentleigh East-Oakleigh South-Moorabbin-Heatherton Quadripoint 0.00.0Australian state route 14.svgAustralian state route 87.svg Dingley Bypass (Metro Routes 14/87 east)   Noble Park, Dandenong South Eastern terminus of road, Metro Route 14 continues east along Dingley Bypass
Australian state route 15.svg Warrigal Road (Metro Route 15)  Mentone, Oakleigh
Bentleigh East-Moorabbin boundary1.60.99Chesterville Road
2.11.3East Boundary Road
Bentleigh-Moorabbin boundary3.62.2Australian state route 17.svg Jasper Road (Metro Route 17)  Bentleigh, Caulfield
Glen Eira-Kingston-Bayside Tripoint Bentleigh-Hampton East-Moorabbin-Brighton East Quadripoint 4.02.5Australian state route 3.svg Nepean Highway (Metro Route 3)  Mordialloc, Frankston, St Kilda, City
Bayside Hampton East-Brighton East boundary4.83.0Australian state route 19.svg Bluff Road (Metro Route 19)  Brighton East, Black Rock
Brighton 6.74.2Hampton Street  Hampton, Sandringham, North Brighton
7.64.7Australian state route 25.svg New Street (Metro Route 33)  Elsternwick, Sandringham
8.15.0Australian state route 33.svg Beach Road (Metro Route 33)  St Kilda, Sandringham Western terminus of road and Metro Route 14
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (20 October 2021). "South Road, Melbourne" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  2. State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  3. VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 807. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.