Strzelecki Highway

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Strzelecki Highway

Australia Victoria location map.svg
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Southwest end
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Northeast end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length55.7 km (35 mi) [1]
Opened1990
Route number(s) AUS Alphanumeric Route B460.svg B460 (1998–present)
Former
route number
Australian state route 182.svg State Route 182 (1990–1998)
Major junctions
Southwest endAUS Alphanumeric Route B460.svg Bass Highway
Leongatha, Victoria
 
Northeast endAUS Alphanumeric Route B460.svgCommercial Road
Morwell, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlements Mirboo North
Highway system

Strzelecki Highway is a short 55 kilometre highway that connects the towns of Leongatha and Morwell. It was named after the Strzelecki Ranges, the set of low mountain ridges the road travels through.

Contents

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 Strzelecki Highway was declared a State Highway in December 1990, [4] from Leongatha to Morwell; before this declaration, the road was referred to as Leongatha-Yarragon Road, Mountain Hut Road, and Morwell-Thorpdale Road. [4]

Strzelecki Highway was signed as State Route 182 between Leongatha and Morwell in 1990; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, it was replaced by route B460.

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 2008, VicRoads re-declared the road as Strzelecki Highway (Arterial #6180) between the South Gippsland Highway in Leongatha and Commercial Road at Morwell. [6]

The Morwell end of the highway was deviated westwards in 2006 as part of the Hazelwood Power Station West Field open cut mine expansion. [7]

Major intersections

LGALocation [1] [6] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
South Gippsland Leongatha 0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route A440.svg South Gippsland Highway (A440)  Korumburra, Yarram, to AUS Alphanumeric Route B460.svg Bass Highway (B460)  Inverloch, Phillip Island South-western terminus of highway, route B460 continues south-west along Bass Highway
Mirboo North 25.015.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C455.svg Meeniyan–Mirboo North Road (C455)  Dumbalk, Meeniyan
25.515.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C456.svg Boolarra South–Mirboo North Road (C456)  Boolarra, Churchill
Delburn33.520.8AUS Alphanumeric Route C469.svg Mirboo North–Trafalgar Road (C469)  Thorpdale, Trafalgar
Latrobe Driffield47.229.3AUS Alphanumeric Route C464.svg Morwell–Thorpdale Road (C464)  Thorpdale
Morwell 55.734.6AUS Alphanumeric Route M1.svg Princes Freeway (M1)  Melbourne, Warragul, Traralgon, Sale
AUS Alphanumeric Route B460.svg Commercial Road (Morwell–Thorpdale Road) (B460)  Morwell North-eastern highway terminus, route B460 continues along Commercial Road to Morwell
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •        Route transition

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (30 December 2021). "Strzelecki 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, 3789. 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. pp. 958–9. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  7. "Hazelwood West Field Project - International Power Australia". www.ipplc.com.au. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2008.