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Burwood Highway | |
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Burwood Highway, Burwood East | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 30 km (19 mi) [1] |
Route number(s) |
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Former route number | Metro Route 26 (1965–1998) (Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave) |
Major junctions | |
West end | Toorak Road Hawthorn, Melbourne |
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East end | Monbulk Road Belgrave–Gembrook Road Belgrave, Melbourne |
Location(s) | |
Major settlements | Burwood, Burwood East, Wantirna South, Ferntree Gully, Upwey, Belgrave |
Highway system | |
Burwood Highway is a major transportation link with Melbourne's eastern suburbs. It begins in the suburb of Kooyong, Melbourne at the junction of the Monash Freeway as Toorak Road between Monash Freeway and Warrigal Road, and finishes in Belgrave, Victoria in the Dandenong Ranges. [2] The highway is considered a major link for people who live in the Dandenong Ranges and acts as one of the major feeder roadway in the area along with Canterbury Road, Ferntree Gully Road, EastLink and Wellington Road.
Burwood Highway is a primary route between Melbourne and the eastern suburbs, and the area around Belgrave. It begins at its junction with CityLink and Monash Freeway as Toorak Road, a four lane single carriageway, which is often clogged with heavy traffic, as well as trams travelling along the roadway for some of the route. Just east of the intersection with Warrigal Road, the highway widens to become a six-lane dual carriageway highway, with a dedicated central median for trams tracks, carrying the Route 75 service to Vermont South, as Burwood Highway. A few kilometres before Belgrave, the highway narrows again to a single carriageway.
Main destinations beyond Belgrave, along Belgrave-Gembrook Road:
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [3] 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 Burwood Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1959/60 financial year, [4] from Warrigal Road in Burwood via Vermont South, to Upper Ferntree Gully (for a total of 12.5 miles (20.1 km)); before this declaration, these roads were referred to as Burwood Road and (Main) Fern Tree Gully Road. [4] The highway was eventually extended a further 4.0 km (2.5 mi) east along Monbulk Road to Belgrave in June 1990, [5] and west along Toorak Road from Warrigal Road to the South Eastern Arterial at Kooyong in October 1993, [6] however this last section was still known (and signposted) as Toorak Road. The tram line was extended 1.7 km (1.1 mi) along the central median through Burwood East from Middleborough Road to Blackburn Road in July 1993. [7]
The Burwood Highway was signed as Metropolitan Route 26 between Burwood and Belgrave in 1965; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, the section between Upper Ferntree Gully and Belgrave was replaced by route C412.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 [8] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the Burwood Highway (Arterial #6750) from the Monash Freeway in Hawthorn to Belgrave-Gembrook Road in Belgrave. [2]
LGA | Location [1] [2] | km [1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Stonnington | Kooyong–Malvern–Hawthorn tripoint | 0 | 0.0 | Toorak Road (Metro Route 26 west) – Toorak, South Yarra | Western terminus of declared highway; continues west as Toorak Road |
CityLink (M1 north) – City, Geelong Monash Freeway (M1 south) – Chadstone, Dandenong | Single-point urban interchange | ||||
Boroondara | Hawthorn | 0.1 | 0.062 | Auburn Road – Kew | |
Hawthorn East | 0.4 | 0.25 | Tooronga Road – Malvern | ||
Camberwell | 1.3 | 0.81 | Burke Road (Metro Route 17) – Caulfield, Camberwell | ||
2.6 | 1.6 | Glen Iris Road – Glen Iris | |||
3.2 | 2.0 | Camberwell Road (Metro Route 30) north-west – Camberwell, Hawthorn | No right turn from Camberwell Road to Toorak Road westbound | ||
Boroondara–Whitehorse boundary | Camberwell–Burwood boundary | 5.0 | 3.1 | Warrigal Road (Metro Route 15) – Oakleigh, Chadstone, Surrey Hills | Name transition: Toorak Road west, Burwood Highway east |
Whitehorse | Burwood | 6.2 | 3.9 | Elgar Road – Doncaster | |
7.1 | 4.4 | Station Street (Metro Route 47) – Box Hill, Huntingdale | |||
Burwood–Burwood East boundary | 8.2 | 5.1 | Middleborough Road (Metro Route 23) – Doncaster, Clayton, Mordialloc | ||
Burwood East | 9.0 | 5.6 | Blackburn Road (Metro Route 13) – Blackburn, Clayton | ||
Burwood East–Forest Hill–Vermont South tripoint | 11.5 | 7.1 | Springvale Road (Metro Route 40) – Glen Waverley, Nunawading | ||
Knox | Wantirna–Wantirna South boundary | 14.9 | 9.3 | Mountain Highway (Metro Route 28) – Bayswater, Wantirna | |
15.4 | 9.6 | EastLink (M3) – Dandenong, Frankston, Ringwood, Melbourne | Diamond interchange | ||
17.6 | 10.9 | Stud Road (Metro Route 9) – Bayswater, Scoresby | |||
Wantirna South | 18.8 | 11.7 | High Street Road (Metro Route 24 south) – Glen Waverley, Glen Iris, Scoresby Lewis Road (north) – Wantirna South | ||
Knoxfield–Ferntree Gully boundary | 19.7 | 12.2 | Scoresby Road (Metro Route 7) – Scoresby, Bayswater, Croydon | ||
Ferntree Gully | 21.6 | 13.4 | Ferntree Gully Road (Metro Route 22 west) – Scoresby, Oakleigh Commercial Road (north) – Ferntree Gully | Western terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 22 | |
22.3 | 13.9 | Dorset Road (Metro Route 5 north) – Boronia, Lilydale | Concurrency with Metro Route 5 | ||
22.7 | 14.1 | Glenfern Road (Metro Route 5 south) – Lysterfield, Narre Warren | |||
23.4 | 14.5 | Brenock Park Drive (south) – Lysterfield Selman Avenue (north) – Ferntree Gully | |||
Knox–Yarra Ranges boundary | Upper Ferntree Gully | 25.4 | 15.8 | Mount Dandenong Tourist Road (C415) – Olinda, Mount Dandenong | Route transition: eastern terminii of Metro Routes 22 and 26, western terminus of route C412 |
Yarra Ranges | Tecoma | 28.1 | 17.5 | Glenfern Road – Rowville | |
Belgrave | 29.8 | 18.5 | Monbulk Road (C404 north) – Monbulk, Lilydale Belgrave–Gembrook Road (C404/C412 east) – Gembrook, Narre Warren Terrys Avenue (west) – Tecoma | Roundabout; eastern highway terminus | |
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