Nepean Highway
Nepean Highway St Kilda Road, Brighton Road, Point Nepean Road Melbourne and Portsea | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 90.6 km (56 mi)[1] |
Route number(s) |
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Former route number | Metro Route 3 (1965–1998) (Mornington–Point Nepean) |
Major junctions | |
North end | St Kilda Road St Kilda, Melbourne |
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South end | Point Nepean National Park Portsea, Victoria |
Location(s) | |
Major settlements | Elsternwick, Moorabbin, Cheltenham, Mordialloc, Chelsea, Carrum, Seaford, Frankston, Mount Eliza, Mornington, Dromana, Rosebud, Sorrento |
Highway system | |
Nepean Highway is a major highway in
Route
St Kilda Junction to Mornington
Historically starting at the Melbourne CBD at
Mornington Peninsula
In the late 1960s a bypass road was constructed in the suburb of Mount Eliza. Previously the highway travelled through the main shopping village: this section is now known as Mount Eliza Way.
After passing through
Route B110 leaves the highway at Sorrento to cross the bay to Queenscliff, via the ferry where it continues to Geelong, via Bellarine Highway, but the highway continues as a two lane road down to the seaside resort of Portsea. The end of the highway is the very nondescript painted turning circle, before the gates of the former Commonwealth quarantine and defence station of Point Nepean, a humble ending to Melbourne's main southern highway.
History
Originally known as Arthurs Seat Road, it was built in the 1850s to provide a road (originally a crude sandy track) from the farms (owned by Jude Roberts) south of Melbourne and link the city with its southern bay settlements and sea defences at Point Nepean.
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[6] 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). Nepean Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year,[7] from Glenhuntly Road in Elsternwick via Frankston to Portsea (for a total of 55 miles); before this declaration, the road was referred to as Point Nepean Road.[8] It was named after Point Nepean, itself named after the British politician and Colonial Administrator, Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet PC.
Nepean Highway was signed as Metropolitan Route 3 between Melbourne and Portsea in 1965; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, the southern half of the highway from Mornington to Sorrento was replaced by route B110, which continues on the other side of the bay at
The passing of the Transport Act of 1983[9] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924) updated the provision for the declaration of State Highways through VicRoads. Point Nepean Road was declared a Tourist Toad in May 1991,[10] between Marine Drive in Dromana and the end of the road in Portsea; however the road was still known (and signposted) as Nepean Highway.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[11] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Nepean Highway (Arterial #6660), beginning at St Kilda Road at St Kilda (this declaration formally includes today's St Kilda Road from St Kilda Junction and Brighton Road, but signposts along this section have kept its original name) and ending at Mornington-Flinders Road (sign-posted as Nepean Highway) in Dromana (better known as the Mount Martha interchange with the Mornington Peninsula Freeway),[2] and the renaming of Nepean Highway as Point Nepean Road (Arterial #4034) between Mornington-Dromana Road (known as Marine Drive) between Dromana and the end of the road in Portsea.[3] The remnant between the intersection with Marine Parade and the Mount Martha interchange with the Mornington Peninsula Freeway have been declared as Bittern-Dromana Road (Arterial #5754) between Marine Parade and Bittern-Dromana Road proper,[12] and Mornington-Flinders Road (Arterial #5751) between Mornington-Flinders Road proper and the Mount Martha interchange;[13] these sections are still sign-posted as Nepean Highway.
Between the 1950s and about 1980, the road was progressively upgraded to a divided highway between the City and
Possible future north–south connection
This alignment would follow the original F2 Freeway corridor as proposed in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan.
Major intersections and towns
LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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City | Northern terminus of Nepean Highway Metro Route 3 continues northwest along St Kilda Road | ||||
South Yarra, Clifton Hill, Epping | |||||
Queens Way (Alt National Route 1) – Caulfield, Oakleigh, Dandenong | Eastbound entrance only | ||||
0.1 | 0.062 | Melbourne CBD | |||
0.2 | 0.12 | Barkly Street (Metro Route 29 south) – St Kilda, Elwood | |||
1.4 | 0.87 | Carlisle Street – St Kilda, Caulfield North | Southern end of St Kilda Road, northern end of Brighton Road | ||
Ripponlea–Elwood boundary | 2.5 | 1.6 | Glen Eira Road (Metro Route 22) – Caulfield, Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully | ||
Prahran | Northern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 25 | ||||
3.4 | 2.1 | Glen Huntly Road – Glenhuntly | Southern end of Brighton Road, northern end of Nepean Highway | ||
Glen Eira–Bayside boundary | Brighton–Elsternwick boundary | 3.7 | 2.3 | Rusden Street (Metro Route 25 south), to New Street – Hampton | Southern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 25 |
Brighton East–Brighton tripoint | 5.4 | 3.4 | North Road (Metro Route 18) – Brighton, Clayton, Rowville | ||
Brighton East | 7.3 | 4.5 | Hawthorn Road (Metro Route 19) – Malvern, Hawthorn | Northern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 19 | |
7.5 | 4.7 | Centre Road (Metro Route 16 east) – Brighton, Bentleigh, Springvale | |||
Brighton East boundary | 8.8 | 5.5 | Cummins Road (Metro Route 19) – Black Rock | Southern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 19 | |
Brighton East quadripoint | 9.9 | 6.2 | South Road (Metro Route 14) – Brighton, Moorabbin | ||
Kingston | Highett–Cheltenham boundary | 13.0 | 8.1 | Bay Road (west) – Sandringham, Westfield Southland Karen Street (east) – Highett, Westfield Southland | |
14.1 | 8.8 | Centre Dandenong Road (east) – Dingley Village, Moorabbin Airport Park Road (west) – Cheltenham | |||
Mentone | 16.1 | 10.0 | Balcombe Road (Metro Route 10 west) – Black Rock | Northern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 10 | |
16.2 | 10.1 | Warrigal Road (Metro Route 15) – Parkdale, Oakleigh, Surrey Hills | |||
16.5 | 10.3 | Lower Dandenong Road (Metro Route 10 east) – Dandenong | Southern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 10 | ||
Port Melbourne | |||||
Edithvale | 23.5 | 14.6 | Edithvale Road (Metro Route 40) – Springvale, Glen Waverley, Donvale | ||
Chelsea | 25.0 | 15.5 | Thames Promenade – Chelsea | ||
Carrum | 27.9 | 17.3 | McLeod Road (Metro Route 6) – Patterson Lakes, Cranbourne North, Clyde North | ||
Frankston | Seaford | 31.7 | 19.7 | Seaford Road – Seaford | |
Frankston | 34.9 | 21.7 | Fletcher Road (Metro Route 9) – Carrum Downs, Dandenong | ||
35.7 | 22.2 | Davey Street (Metro Route 4/Tourist Route 12) – Cranbourne, Hastings | |||
Mornington Peninsula | Mornington | 47.8 | 29.7 | Mornington-Tyabb Road (C782) – Mornington, Tyabb | Southern terminus of Metro Route 3, northern terminus of route B110 |
City | |||||
Dromana | 60.5 | 37.6 | White Hill Road (C787/C788) – Red Hill, Flinders, Bittern | Moats Corner intersection | |
City | |||||
63.5 | 39.5 | Marine Drive (C783) – Mount Martha, Mornington | Southern terminus of Nepean Highway Northern terminus of Point Nepean Road | ||
Dromana | 64.9 | 40.3 | McCulloch Street (C789), to Arthurs Seat Road – Arthurs Seat, Red Hill | ||
Rosebud | 71.8 | 44.6 | Boneo Road (C777) – Flinders, Cape Schanck | ||
Capel Sound | 73.4 | 45.6 | Elizabeth Avenue (C776), to Eastbourne Road – Rosebud | ||
Sorrento | 86.0 | 53.4 | Esplanade (B110) – Sorrento | Route B110 continues north along Esplanade, then via Queenscliff–Sorrento Ferry to Bellarine Highway, Queenscliff | |
Point Nepean National Park | Southern terminus of Point Nepean Road | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Gallery
See also
References
- ^ Google (13 October 2021). "Nepean Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 1009–11. 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. p. 805. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ Metropolitan Town Planning Commission Report 1929 Plan for General Development Melbourne available from https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/planning-for-melbourne/melbournes-strategic-planning-history/plan-for-general-development-1929, p86 (direct ref https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/101514/Part-3.pdf)
- Australian TransportDecember 1984 page 14
- ^ 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. 93–4.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 22 May 1991. pp. 1341–2. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ 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. 712. 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. 710. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ Nepean Highway Mordialloc Creek Bridge, Mordialloc, VicRoads Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Response to the Eddington Report,[dead link] July 2008