Westall Road

Last updated

Westall Road

Springvale Bypass

Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne location map.svg
Red pog.svg
North end
Red pog.svg
South end
Coordinates
General information
TypeRoad
Length6.8 km (4.2 mi) [1]
Route number(s) Australian state route 49.svg Metro Route 49 (1989–present)
Major junctions
North endAustralian national route ALT1.svg Princes Highway
Clayton, Melbourne
 
South endAustralian state route 49.svg Dandenong Bypass
Keysborough, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbs Clayton South, Dingley Village

Westall Road (also known as the Springvale Bypass) is a major north to south thoroughfare west of Springvale, Victoria, Australia.

Contents

Route

Starting at the intersection with Princes Highway in Clayton, the road head south as a six-lane, dual-carriageway road, intersecting with Centre Road, over the Cranbourne and Pakenham railway lines and an intersection with Heatherton Road, all with a speed limit of 80 km/h. Westall Road then continues on as a semi-freeway standard road along the reservation of the Dingley Freeway with a speed limit of 80 km/h (formerly 100 km/h until the intersection with Dingley Bypass), where it narrows to a four-lane dual-carriageway road and heads south-east until it reaches Springvale Road. It continues as the Dandenong Bypass east eventually to Dandenong South.

History

Historically before the reconstruction and extension works, Westall Road ran as a semi-major road from just south of the Dandenong Rail line at Westall Station to Heatherton Road, and as a minor road from the railway line to Centre Road. The previous thoroughfare consisted of taking McNaughton Road, Kombi Road and Rayhur Street.

The extensions north to Princes Highway and south to Springvale Road were designed to reduce traffic which travels through Springvale via Springvale Road, as it has a 70 km/h speed limit for most of its length in which it is bypassed as well as having a reduced 60 km/h limit through the Springvale shopping area with this dropping to 40 km/h during school times. Traffic was further delayed by the level crossing adjacent to Springvale Station until 2014, and the particularly slow Springvale Junction. The upgrade of Westall Road has allowed north–south through traffic to avoid this area.

Westall Road was signed as Metropolitan Route 49 between Clayton and Clayton South in 1989, extended south to Keysborough when the southern extension opened in 1995, and extended north to Clayton when the northern extension opened in 2001.

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 re-declared the road as Westall Road (Arterial #5056), beginning at Princes Highway at Clayton and ending at Springvale Road in Keysborough. [3]

Springvale Bypass (Stage 1)

Prior to construction of the bypass, Westall Road (as it existed) from Heatherton Road to Centre Road consisted of a simple dual-lane undivided road. The northern section of Stage 1 - an extension of Westall Road from Centre Road in Clayton South north to Princes Highway in Clayton - was built as a six-lane dual-carriageway road using unreinforced concrete pavement, opening in October 1992. [4] To better enable Westall Road to serve as a high-capacity alternative route to Springvale Road, the southern section of Stage 1 - a new six-lane dual-carriageway alignment running parallel just to the west of the existing Westall Road - was constructed between Centre Road and Rayhur Street, including a grade separated level crossing over the Pakenham and Cranbourne railway lines, in conjunction with duplication works to upgrade Westall Road to a six lane divided road between Rayhur Street and Heatherton Road; these works were completed by April 2001. [5] [6]

Springvale Bypass (Stage 2)

The southern extension of Westall Road runs along the Dingley Arterial route from Heatherton Road in Springvale South to Springvale Road in Keysborough. It commenced construction in 1994 and was finished in 1995. [7] The extension was previously known as the Westall Road Extension from 1995 to 2016.

The works involved creating a 2.8 km divided four lane (two lanes each way) semi-freeway standard road to bypass the busy and congested centre of Springvale. The extension involves constructing part of the Dingley Freeway to the future site of an interchange with Westall Road before travelling along a temporary alignment to join up with the extended Westall Road south of Heatherton Road. A speed limit of 100 km/h applied between Heatherton Road and Rowan Road from 1995 until 2016 when it was permanently changed to 80 km/h as a result of the Dingley Bypass. The reason being VicRoads determined the stretch of road too short to have a limit of 100 km/h. The limit had always been an 80 km/h limit on the approaches to Heatherton and Springvale Roads. A bicycle path was completed along the entire length of the road.

As a result of the Dingley Bypass, there is now a T-intersection in place close to Heatherton Road connecting both the bypass and Westall Road. Original plans were for grade separation at this intersection.

Major intersections

LGALocation [1] [3] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
KingstonGreater Dandenong border ClaytonSpringvale border0.00.0Australian national route ALT1.svg Princes Highway (Alt National Route 1) – City, Oakleigh, Dandenong Northern terminus of road and Metro Route 49
ClaytonClayton SouthSpringvale tripoint0.750.47Australian state route 16.svg Centre Road (Metro Route 16)  Brighton East, Mulgrave
Clayton SouthSpringvale border1.71.1 Pakenham and Cranbourne railway lines
2.11.3Fairbank Road (west)  Clayton South
Brear Street (east)  Springvale
2.41.5Osborne Avenue – Springvale railway station
Greater Dandenong SpringvaleSpringvale South border4.02.5Australian state route 14.svg Heatherton Road (Metro Route 14)  Heatherton, Noble Park
Springvale South 4.62.9Australian state route 87.svg Dingley Bypass (Metro Route 87)  Moorabbin
KingstonGreater Dandenong border Springvale SouthDingley VillageKeysborough tripoint6.84.2Australian state route 40.svg Springvale Road (Metro Route 40)  Springvale, Edithvale
Australian state route 49.svg Dandenong Bypass (Metro Route 49)  Dandenong South Southern terminus of road; Metro Route 49 continues east along Dandenong Bypass
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •        Route transition

See also

Australia road sign W5-29.svg   Australian roadsportal

Related Research Articles

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, 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.

Clayton South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Clayton South recorded a population of 13,381 at the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Monash Freeway</span> Freeway in Victoria, Australia

The Monash Freeway is a major urban freeway in Victoria, Australia, linking Melbourne's CBD to its south-eastern suburbs and beyond to the Gippsland region. It carries up to 180,000 vehicles per day and is one of Australia's busiest freeways. The entire stretch of the Monash Freeway bears the designation M1.

South Gippsland Freeway is a short freeway linking Dandenong in Melbourne's south–east to other south–eastern destinations, including the Mornington Peninsula and the Gippsland region. The freeway bears the designation M420.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Calder Highway</span> Highway in Victoria

Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria. South of Bendigo, where the former highway has been upgraded to freeway-standard, Calder Freeway links to Melbourne, subsuming former alignments of Calder Highway; the Victorian Government completed the conversion to freeway standard from Melbourne to Bendigo on 20 April 2009.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mornington Peninsula Freeway</span>

The Mornington Peninsula Freeway is a freeway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, that provides a link from south-eastern suburban Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula. Whilst the entire freeway from Dingley Village to Rosebud is declared by VicRoads as the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, the section between EastLink in Carrum Downs and Moorooduc Highway in Moorooduc is locally and commonly known as Peninsula Link. The entire freeway corridor bears the designation M11.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frankston Freeway</span> Freeway in Victoria

Frankston Freeway is a short freeway in southern Melbourne initially designed as a bypass of central Frankston and later incorporated a freeway-style upgrade to Wells Road in the 1970s, now acting as a link from suburban Melbourne to Frankston's eastern suburbs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mountain Highway</span> Highway in Victoria, Australia

Mountain Highway is an 18 km west–east highway located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, linking the outer fringes of the city to the Dandenong Ranges.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dingley Arterial Project</span> Road in Melbourne, Australia

The Dingley Arterial Road Project is a partially completed arterial standard road which runs east to west through the southern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.

The Dandenong Bypass is a highway in the state of Victoria, Australia that runs along the Dingley Freeway reservation from Springvale Road in Keysborough to the South Gippsland Highway in Dandenong South.

Springvale Junction is a road intersection in Melbourne. It is situated on the boundary of the suburbs of Mulgrave and Springvale.

Thompson Road is a major urban arterial road in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Western Port Highway is a highway in Victoria, Australia, linking the south-eastern fringe of suburban Melbourne to the western coast of Western Port, after which the highway is named, at the Port of Hastings nearly 30 km to the south. It runs from the end of South Gippsland Freeway at Lynbrook, firstly as a dual carriageway and later as an undivided road, to Frankston-Flinders Road at Hastings.

The Ringwood Bypass is a short stretch of road extending from EastLink to Maroondah Highway in Melbourne, Australia. It allows the Maroondah Highway to bypass Eastland Shopping Centre, in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Ringwood.

Warrigal Road is a major inner urban road in southeastern Melbourne, Australia. On weekdays, it is heavily trafficked as it runs through many major suburbs along its route, traversing some of Melbourne's eastern and south-eastern suburbs. These suburbs include Chadstone, Oakleigh, and Cheltenham. The Chadstone Shopping Centre can be accessed directly from Warrigal Road at its eastern entrance.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">State (Lower Dandenong/Cheltenham) Highway</span>

State Highway, also known as Lower Dandenong/Cheltenham State Highway, is an 12.5 km stretch of continuous road in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. These names are not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Lower Dandenong Road, Cheltenham Road, and Foster Street. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completion, as well to avoid confusion between declarations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">State (Bell/Springvale) Highway</span> Highway in Melbourne, Victoria

State (Bell/Springvale) Highway, also known as Bell Street/Springvale Road State Highway, is the longest self-contained urban highway in Melbourne, Australia, linking Tullamarine Freeway and Nepean Highway through Melbourne's north-eastern suburbs. These names are not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts : Bell Street, Banksia Street, Manningham Road, Williamsons Road, Doncaster Road, Mitcham Road, Springvale Road and Edithvale Road. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completeness, as well to avoid confusion between declarations.

Dingley Bypass is an arterial road in southeastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia that travels along the Dingley Arterial route from Westall Road to Warrigal Road. After the intersection with Warrigal Road, the highway continues further west as South Road, which extends all the way to the bayside Beach Road at Brighton.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (24 November 2021). "Westall Road" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. 1 2 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 169. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  4. "VicRoads Annual Report 1992-93". VicRoads . Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 29 September 1993. p. 42.
  5. "VicRoads Annual Report 2000-01". VicRoads . Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 26 September 2001. p. 34.
  6. VicRoads – Road Safety Management Page 5
  7. "VicRoads Annual Report 1994-95". VicRoads . Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 26 September 1995. p. 5.