Dandenong Valley Highway

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Dandenong Valley Highway

Stud Road, Foster Street, Frankston–Dandenong Road, Dandenong Road West, Fletcher Road

Route 9 corner Heatherton Rd and Stud Rd.png
Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong
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North end
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South end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length37 km (23 mi) [1]
Route number(s)
  • Australian state route 9.svg Metro Route 9 (1965–present)
    (Wantirna–Frankston)
  • Concurrency:
  • Australian national route ALT1.svg Alt National Route 1 (1988–present)
    (through Dandenong)
Former
route number
  • Concurrency:
  • Australian national route 1.svg National Route 1 (1955–1988)
    (through Dandenong)
Major junctions
North endAustralian state route 9.svgStud Road
Wantirna South, Melbourne
 
South endAustralian state route 9.svgFrankston-Dandenong Road
Frankston, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbs Scoresby, Rowville, Dandenong, Carrum Downs
Highway system

The Dandenong Valley Highway is an urban highway stretching almost 40 kilometres from Bayswater in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. This name covers many consecutive streets and is not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Stud Road, Foster Street, Dandenong-Frankston Road, Dandenong Road West and Fletcher Road. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completion, as well to avoid confusion between declarations.

Contents

The traffic on the highway has been significant over the years with the worst bottlenecks at Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully Road, Wellington Road, Princes Highway, and Thompsons Road, but since the opening of the EastLink, the traffic burden has significantly reduced along the highway with the north–south tollway, opening to traffic on 29 June 2008.

Route

Stud Road starts at the intersection with Mountain Highway in Bayswater and heads south as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, crossing Burwood Highway at Wantirna South (and the beginning of Dandenong Valley Highway), where it widens to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road (sharing a dedicated bus lane on-and-off) and continues south through Scoresby to Rowville, crossing Wellington Road and narrowing back to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues south to Dandenong, narrowing further to a four-lane, single-carriageway road south past David Street, changes names to Foster Street south of Clow Street, to the intersection with Princes Highway through central Dandenong. Running concurrent along Princes Highway, it resumes running south along Frankston–Dandenong Road as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Dandenong South and Carrum Downs, where it eventually crosses west under the Frankston railway line (at the end of Dandenong Valley Highway) as Overton Road, then turns immediately south along Dandenong Road West as a dual-lane single-carriageway road, all the way along Fletcher Road, where it briefly becomes a four-lane, dual-carriageway road again before it terminates at Nepean Highway in Frankston.

History

The elimination of the railway crossing where Dandenong–Frankston Road crossed the Pakenham railway line in Dandenong commenced in 1956, carried out by the Dandenong Shire Council, with assistance from Victorian Railways and the Country Roads Board, [2] and completed in 1957, with the eastern half of a four-lane overpass over the railway completed and open to traffic in September, and the western half completed not long afterwards. [3]

The entire alignment (as its constituent roads) was signed as Metropolitan Route 9 between Wantirna and Frankston in 1965. It was re-routed from Dandenong Road East and Beach Street through Frankston to its current alignment when the Beach Street railway crossing was eliminated in 1991.

The passing of the Transport Act of 1983 [4] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 [5] ) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads). The Stud Highway and Dandenong-Frankston Highway were declared State Highways in March 1990, [6] from Burwood Highway in Wantirna South to the Princes Highway in Dandenong (as Stud Highway), and from there to the Wells Road/Overton Road intersection just north of Frankston (as Dandenong–Frankston Highway). These two highways were fused into one only 9 months later, and re-declared as the Dandenong Valley Highway in December 1990, [7] in the same alignment as the previous highways, from Wantirna South to Frankston; however all roads were known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.

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 declared the road as Dandenong Valley Highway (Arterial #6090), from Burwood Highway in Wantirna South to Wells Road crossing underneath the Frankston railway line in Frankston, [9] while re-declaring the remaining roads within the corridor as Stud Road (Arterial #5796), [10] Klauer Road (today Klauer Street, Wells Road and Dandenong Road West) (Arterial #5159) [11] and Fletcher Road (Arterial #5974), [12] and as before, all roads are still presently known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.

In April 2024 the section of Stud Road from the Monash Freeway to Heatherton Road in Dandenong was reduced from 80km/h to 60km/h after a number of fatal accidents. Two pedestrians had been killed in the previous six years, with the local council calling for additional safety measures such as a pedestrian crossing or overpass for access from the western side of Stud Road across to Dandenong Stadium. [13] [14] [15] [16]

Major intersections

LGALocation [1] [9] [10] [11] [12] km [1] miDestinationsNotes
Knox Wantirna 1.10.68Australian state route 9.svg Stud Road (Metro Route 9)  Wantirna, Ringwood, Boronia Metro Route 9 continues west along Boronia Road towards Wantirna
Wantirna South 3.01.9Australian state route 26.svg Burwood Highway (Metro Route 26)  Ferntree Gully, Belgrave, City Northern terminus of Dandenong Valley Highway (declared)
4.02.5Australian state route 24.svg High Street Road (Metro Route 24)  Glen Waverley, Wantirna South
Scoresby 6.44.0Australian state route 22.svg Ferntree Gully Road (Metro Route 22)  Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully
Rowville 7.84.8Kelletts Road  Ferntree Gully
9.86.1Australian state route 18.svgAUS Alphanumeric Route C413.svg Wellington Road (Metro Route 18 west/C413 east)  Mulgrave, Oakleigh, Lysterfield, Emerald
9.96.2Bergins Road  Endeavour Hills, Doveton
Greater Dandenong Dandenong North 13.48.3AUS Alphanumeric Route M1.svg Monash Freeway (M1)  Pakenham, Warragul, Chadstone, City
Dandenong 14.69.1Australian state route 14.svg Heatherton Road (Metro Route 14)  Noble Park, Endeavour Hills
16.310.1Clow Street  Dandenong, Doveton Stud Road north, Foster Street south
17.010.6Australian national route ALT1.svg Princes Highway (Alt National Route 1 north) – City
Australian state route 10.svg Foster Street (Metro Route 10 west)  Mentone, Black Rock
Concurrency with route National Alt Route 1
Foster Street east of Lonsdale Street, Dandenong-Frankston Road south of Lonsdale Street
17.811.1Australian national route ALT1.svg Princes Highway (Alt National Route 1 east)  Berwick
18.111.2 Gippsland railway line
Dandenong South 18.711.6 Dandenong Bypass   Keysborough, Clayton
19.812.3Australian state route 12.svg Greens Road (Metro Route 12)  Mordialloc, Keysborough
Frankston Carrum Downs 26.616.5Australian state route 6.svg Thompson Road (Metro Route 6)  Carrum, Cranbourne, Clyde North
31.719.7AUS Alphanumeric Route M11.svg Mornington Peninsula Freeway (M11)  Dingley Village, Frankston, Mount Martha, Rosebud
Frankston North 32.320.1Seaford Road (west)  Seaford
Ballarto Road (east)  Skye
Seaford 35.021.7AUS Alphanumeric Route M3.svg Frankston Freeway (M3)  Ringwood, Frankston South, City
35.221.9Skye Road (east)  Frankston
Dandenong Road East (south)  Frankston
Dandenong–Frankston Road north, Overton Road west
Seaford–Frankston boundary Frankston railway line
Frankston Overton Road (west)  Frankston
Wells Road (north)  Seaford
Overton Road east, Dandenong Road West south
Southern terminus of Dandenong Valley Highway (declared)
36.422.6Fletcher RoadDandenong Road West north, Fletcher Road west
36.822.9Australian state route 3.svg Nepean Highway (Metro Route 3)  Mornington, Portsea, Mordialloc, City Western terminus of Fletcher Road
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

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