Western Port Highway

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Western Port Highway

Victoria
Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne location map.svg
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North end
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South end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length27.5 km (17 mi) [1]
Gazetted May 1983 (as Main Road) [2]
March 1994 (as State Highway) [3]
Route number(s)
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route M780.svg M780 (2000–present)
    (Lynbrook–Skye)
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route A780.svg A780 (1997–present)
    (Skye–Hastings)
Former
route number
  • AUS Alphanumeric Route A780.svg A780 (1997–2000)
    (Lynbrook–Langwarrin)
  • Australian state route 65.svg Metro Route 65 (1989–1997)
    Entire route
Major junctions
North endAUS Alphanumeric Route M420.svg South Gippsland Freeway
Lynbrook, Melbourne
 
South endAUS Alphanumeric Route C777.svgFrankston-Flinders Road
Hastings, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlements Dandenong South, Lyndhurst, Skye, Cranbourne West, Langwarrin, Pearcedale, Somerville, Tyabb
Highway system

Western Port Highway is a highway in Victoria, Australia, linking the south-eastern fringe of suburban Melbourne to the port of Hastings nearly 30km to the south [4] on the western coast of Western Port, after which the highway is named.

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Route

Western Port Highway commences at Lyndhurst Interchange, where South Gippsland Highway and the alignment of South Gippsland Freeway meet at Lynbrook, and heads south directly from the southern end of South Gippsland Freeway over a bridge crossing South Gippsland Highway as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, over the Cranbourne railway line, passing through a set of traffic lights at Portlink Drive and Moreton Bay Boulevard, passing through a roundabout at Glasscocks Road, and traffic lights at Thompsons Road. The highway runs onwards further south, meeting Cranbourne-Frankston Road in Cranbourne South, and continues south to North Road, before narrowing to a dual-lane single carriageway road and continues south to meet with Baxter-Tooradin Road in Pearcedale, before eventually terminating at an intersection with Frankston–Flinders Road, 2 km north of Hastings.

For most of the route the speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph), with shorter sections of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph) and 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph).

History

Western Port Highway was originally a single carriageway road called Lyndhurst Road in the 1960s, renamed some time after. The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1958 [5] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [6] ) provided for the declaration of State Highways and Main Roads, roads partially financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads). A southern extension to the existing declaration of Dandenong–Hastings Road, subsuming a section of Tyabb–Tooradin Road between Somerville and Hastings, was declared a Main Road on 9 May 1983. [2]

Dandenong-Hasting Road was progressively upgraded to a divided highway between South Gippsland Freeway and Cranbourne–Frankston Road during the 1990s, as dramatically increasing freight traffic volumes to and from Hastings necessitated major upgrades, including eliminating the level crossing with the Cranbourne railway line with an overpass in 2001. [7]

The passing of the Transport Act of 1983 [8] updated the definition of State Highways. Western Port Highway was declared a State Highway in March 1994, [3] from South Gippsland Freeway at Lynbrook to Frankston-Flinders Road at Hastings.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [9] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Western Port Highway (Arterial #6230), beginning at South Gippsland Freeway at Lynbrook and ending at Frankston-Flinders Road in Hastings. [4]

Dandenong-Hastings Road was signed Metropolitan Route 65 in 1989. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s this was replaced by route A780. After further upgrades, this was converted to route M780 between Lynbrook and Cranbourne South in 2000, [10] with a further extension south between Cranbourne South and Langwarrin after further duplication in 2009. [11]

VicRoads had planned to convert the highway to a six- to eight-lane freeway standard between South Gippsland Freeway and about 1.2 km south of Cranbourne-Frankston Road with full grade-separated interchanges at Glasscocks, Thompsons, Hall and Cranbourne–Frankston Roads, and a half-diamond interchange (north-facing ramps only) at Ballarto Road, with a report released in August 2014, [12] however the State Government abandoned any plans for the upgrade, which was estimated to cost $1 billion, in mid-2016. [13]

Upgrades

Major intersections

LGALocation [1] [4] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Greater Dandenong–Casey boundary Dandenong South–Lyndhurst–Lynbrook tripoint 0.00.0AUS Alphanumeric Route M420.svg South Gippsland Freeway (M420 north) – Dandenong, Chadstone, City Northern terminus of highway and route M780
AUS Alphanumeric Route M420.svg South Gippsland Highway (M420 southeast, unallocated northwest) – Dandenong, Cranbourne Partial cloverleaf interchange
Lyndhurst–Lynbrook boundary0.80.50Northey Road – Lynbrook Southbound entrance and exit only
0.90.56Monash Drive – Dandenong South Northbound entrance and exit only
Lyndhurst 2.11.3Portlink Drive – Dandenong South Traffic light intersection
2.21.4Moreton Bay Boulevard – Lyndhurst Traffic light intersection
3.01.9Glasscocks Road – Bangholme, Lyndhurst Roundabout
Greater Dandenong–Casey–Frankston tripointLyndhurst–Skye–Cranbourne West tripoint4.72.9Australian state route 6.svg Thompsons Road (Metro Route 6) – Carrum, Cranbourne Traffic light intersection
Casey–Frankston boundary Skye–Cranbourne West boundary8.05.0Hall Road (B664) – Carrum Downs, Cranbourne Traffic light intersection
Skye–Cranbourne West–Cranbourne South tripoint9.66.0Ballarto Road – Skye, Seaford Traffic light intersection
Skye–Langwarrin boundary11.06.8Australian state route 4.svg Cranbourne–Frankston Road (Metro Route 4) – Cranbourne, Frankston Traffic light intersection
12.17.5Browns Road – Cranbourne South, Junction Village Roundabout
Skye–Langwarrin–Pearcedale tripoint15.09.3North Road – Langwarrin, Devon Meadows Roundabout
Southern terminus of route M780, northern terminus of route A780
Langwarrin–Langwarrin South–Pearcedale tripoint16.810.4Robinsons Road – Frankston South, Pearcedale Roundabout
Casey–Frankston–Mornington Peninsula tripoint Langwarrin South–Pearcedale boundary18.511.5AUS Alphanumeric Route C781.svg Baxter–Tooradin Road (C781) – Baxter, Pearcedale, Tooradin Roundabout
Mornington Peninsula Somerville 21.213.2Eramosa Road East – Somerville
22.914.2Bungower Road – Mornington Roundabout
Somerville–Tyabb boundary24.515.2Tyabb–Tooradin Road (northeast) – Tyabb
O'Neills Road (west) – Tooradin
Tyabb 27.517.1AUS Alphanumeric Route C777.svg Frankston–Flinders Road (C777 north, south) – Hastings, Flinders, Frankston
Denham Road (east) – Hastings 		Southern terminus of highway and route A780 at roundabout
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (28 December 2021). "Western Port Highway" (Map). Google Maps . Google. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 30 June 1983. p. 1984. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 24 March 1994. p. 749. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 962–3. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  5. ↑ http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/cra1958182.pdf State of Victoria, An Act to consolidate the Law relating to Country Roads 30 September 1958
  6. ↑ 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
  7. 1 2 "VicRoads Annual Report 2000-01". VicRoads . Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 26 September 2001. p. 34.
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "VicRoads Annual Report 1999-2000". VicRoads . Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 19 October 2000. p. 23.
  11. 1 2 "VicRoads 2008-09 Annual Report". Corporate Policy and Planning VicRoads. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 19 August 2009. p. 44.
  12. ↑ "Western Port Highway (North) Upgrade Project: Lynbrook to Langwarrin" (PDF). VicRoads. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Western Port Highway upgrade to freeway off agenda as State Government declares no interest". Herald-Sun . Melbourne. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
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