Maroondah Highway
Maroondah Highway Whitehorse Road Victoria | |
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Maroondah Highway, Ringwood North | |
General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 188 km (117 mi)[1] |
Route number(s) |
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Former route number |
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Major junctions | |
Southwest end | Cotham Road Deepdene, Melbourne |
Northeast end | Mount Buller Road |
Highway system | |
Maroondah Highway (also known as Whitehorse Road from
Route
Whitehorse Road/Maroondah Hwy begins as a continuation of Cotham Road at
History
In the 1850s, Whitehorse Road was built to be the primary route from Melbourne to Gippsland, a rather circuitous route which went via the Dandenong Ranges[citation needed]. Today the primary route is now via the Monash and Princes Freeways.
The road, when first built, was named Three Chain Road, due to the road width being 66 yards (60 m) wide.[citation needed]
The traffic led to the establishment of a hotel in Box Hill named the White Horse hotel which had been named for a horse belonging to Captain Elgar, a property owner in the area. It is this hotel of which the road obtained its name. However, the hotel was forced to shut its doors in 1921 when Box Hill became a dry area. A replica of the white horse from the roof of the hotel now stands in the median strip of Whitehorse Road, while the restored original is located in the Box Hill Town Hall.[3]
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924
The Maroondah Highway was signed as Metropolitan Route 34 between Deepdene and Lilydale in 1965, later extended to Alexandra in 1986,[9] and signed State Route 153 between Yarck and Mansfield in 1986.[9] With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, Metropolitan Route 34 was truncated back to Lilydale, and replaced by routes B300 between Lilydale and Coldstream, route B360 between Coldstream and Alexandra, C516 between Koriella and Yarck, B300 between Yarck and Maindample, and B320 between Maindample and Mansfield. Maroondah Link Highway was signed State Route 153 between Cathkin and Yarck in 1986, and was later replaced by route B300.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004
Major intersections and towns
LGA | Location[1][12] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Boroondara | Kew–Deepdene boundary | 0.0 | 0.0 | Cotham Road (Metro Route 34) – Kew, Collingwood, Parkville | Western terminus of highway and Whitehorse Road; Metro Route 34 continues west along Cotham Road |
Burke Road (Metro Route 17) – Camberwell, Heidelberg | |||||
Balwyn | 1.8 | 1.1 | Balwyn Road – Canterbury, Bulleen | ||
Balwyn | Eastern terminus of Whitehorse Road (declared) | ||||
Mont Albert–Box Hill boundary | 4.8 | 3.0 | Elgar Road – Burwood, Doncaster | ||
Whitehorse | Box Hill | 5.6 | 3.5 | Station Street (Metro Route 47) – Huntingdale, Doncaster | |
Box Hill–Blackburn boundary | 6.9 | 4.3 | Middleborough Road (Metro Route 23) – Clayton, Mount Waverley, Doncaster | ||
Blackburn | 8.3 | 5.2 | Chapel Street (Blackburn Road) (Metro Route 13 north) – Blackburn, Syndal, Monash University | Concurrency with Metro Route 13 | |
8.5 | 5.3 | Surrey Road (Blackburn Road) (Metro Route 13 south) – Doncaster East, Warrandyte | |||
Nunawading | 10.2 | 6.3 | Springvale Road (Metro Route 40) – Glen Waverley, Donvale | ||
Mitcham | 11.8 | 7.3 | Mitcham Road (Metro Route 36) – Wantirna, Donvale, Doncaster | Eastern terminus of Whitehorse Road (sign-posted) | |
SPUI northbound exit from EastLink westbound only | |||||
14.8 | 9.2 | Wantirna Road (Metro Route 9 south) – Wantirna | Concurrency with Metro Route 9 | ||
15.2 | 9.4 | Warrandyte Road (Metro Route 9 north) – Warrandyte | |||
15.8 | 9.8 | Ringwood Bypass (Metro Route 62 west) – Ringwood Mount Dandenong Road (Metro Route 62 east) – Croydon, Mount Dandenong | |||
Croydon | 20.2 | 12.6 | Kent Avenue (Metro Route 7 south) – Croydon, Bayswater | Concurrency with Metro Route 7 | |
Croydon North–Croydon boundary | 20.4 | 12.7 | Yarra Road (Metro Route 7 north) – Wonga Park, Warrandyte | ||
22.9 | 14.2 | Dorset Road (Metro Route 5) – Boronia, Ferntree Gully | |||
Yarra Ranges | Lilydale | 29.0 | 18.0 | Anderson Street (C401) – Montrose, Bayswater, to Hereford Road (C404) – Monbulk | Eastern terminus of Metro Route 34, western terminus of route B300 |
30.8 | 19.1 | Woori Yallock, Warburton | |||
Coldstream | 34.2 | 21.3 | Melba Highway (B300) – Yarra Glen | Route B300 continues north; western terminus of route B360 | |
Healesville | 46.5 | 28.9 | Yarra River | ||
48.7 | 30.3 | Healesville–Koo Wee Rup Road (C411) – Koo Wee Rup | |||
50.7 | 31.5 | Healesville–Kinglake Road (C724) – Yarra Glen, Kinglake, Yea | |||
51.5 | 32.0 | Badger Creek Road (C505) – Badger Creek | |||
51.9 | 32.2 | Don Road (C506) – Mount Donna Buang, Yarra Junction | |||
Murrindindi | Narbethong | 75.5 | 46.9 | Marysville Road (C512) – Marysville, to Archeron Way (C507) – Warburton | |
Buxton | 89.9 | 55.9 | Buxton–Marysville Road (C508) – Lake Mountain, Marysville | ||
Taggerty | 101.5 | 63.1 | Taggerty–Thornton Road (C515) – Eildon, Jamieson | ||
Alexandra | 116.7 | 72.5 | Goulburn River | ||
119.2 | 74.1 | Goulburn Valley Highway (B340 east) – Eildon | Concurrency with route B340 | ||
Koriella | 126.1 | 78.4 | Goulburn Valley Highway (B340 west) – Yea, Seymour | ||
Melbourne | Southbound exit to and northbound entrance from Maroondah Link Highway only | ||||
Shepparton | |||||
Lake Eildon | |||||
Benalla | Route B300 continues north; western terminus of route B320 | ||||
Benalla Highett Street (south) – Mansfield | Roundabout | ||||
Mount Buller Road (C320) – Mount Buller, Whitfield | Road continues east as Mount Buller Road Eastern terminus of route B320; western terminus of route C320 | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
- Highways in Australia
- Highways in Victoria
References
- ^ a b c Google. "Maroondah Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
- ^ "109 Box Hill - Port Melbourne". Public Transport Victoria.
- ^ "Box Hill – Place". eMelbourne. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1948". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1948. p. 7.
- ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1939". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 10 November 1939. pp. 86, 88, 93–4.
- ^ "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1984". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 December 1984. p. 54.
- ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 30 June 1983. p. 1973. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 24 November 1986. p. 42.
- ^ 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.
- ^ VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 932. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 1020–1. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 936. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.