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State (Bell/Springvale) Highway

(numerous constituent roads)

Victoria
Route of the Highway
State (Bell/Springvale) Highway is located in Melbourne
Northwest end
Northwest end
Southeast end
Southeast end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length50.2 km (31 mi)
Gazetted
August 1947 (as Main Road)[2]
June 1983 (as State Highway)[3]
Route number(s)
  • Metro Route 40 (1965–present)
    Entire route
  • Concurrencies:
  • Metro Route 47 (1989–present)
    (Templestowe Lower–Doncaster)
  • Metro Route 36 (1965–present)
    (Doncaster–Donvale)
Former
route number		 Metro Route 11 (1965–1989)
(Donvale–Chelsea Heights)
Tourist routes Tourist Route 2
(Heidelberg–Bulleen)
Major junctions
Northwest end
Pascoe Vale South, Melbourne
 
Southeast end Springvale Road
Glen Waverley, Springvale
Highway system

State (Bell/Springvale) Highway,[4] also known as Bell Street/Springvale Road State Highway[5] (after its longest constituent parts), is the longest self-contained urban highway in Melbourne, Australia, linking CityLink and Mornington Peninsula Freeway through Melbourne's north-eastern suburbs. These names are not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts (some of which are only contiguous with the highway for a small section): Bell Street, Banksia Street, Manningham Road, Williamsons Road, Doncaster Road, Mitcham Road and Springvale Road.[4] This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completeness.

Route

Bell Street in Heidelberg
Bell Street in Coburg

Bell Street (and the beginning of the north-western section of the highway) starts at the interchange with

Edithvale
).

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the Doncaster Road section carried around 50,000 vehicles per hour at peak, but this number dropped in 1997 after the extension of the Eastern Freeway.[citation needed]

Many junctions with

Eastern Freeway, Monash Freeway, Princes Highway, and Mornington Peninsula Freeway contribute to large traffic volumes along the corridor.[citation needed
]

History

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924

Pascoe Vale South.[2] This was extended further west via a new bridge over Moonee Ponds Creek to connect directly to the Tullamarine Freeway extension and Pascoe Vale Road when it opened in 1970 (plans to do so had existed since 1950[2]). After the passing of the Country Roads Act of 1958[7] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924), Heidelberg-Doncaster Road (from Rosanna Road in Heidelberg heading east across Manningham Road and Williamsons Road to Doncaster Road in Doncaster) and Doncaster-Mitcham Road (from Williamsons Road in Doncaster heading east along Doncaster Road and Mitcham Road to Mitcham)) were declared Main Roads by the Country Roads Board on 7 September 1960,[8]
but were sign-posted as their constituent parts.

The entire route was declared a State Highway in June 1983, between

Pascoe Vale South and Mornington Peninsula Freeway in Chelsea Heights[3][9] (unusually referred to as "Unnamed" in reports at the time, but named Bell Street/Springvale Road State Highway three years later[5]), subsuming previous declarations of Bell Street, Heidelberg-Doncaster Road and Doncaster Mitcham Roads as Main Roads, and still sign-posted as its constituent parts. Work on the direct link between Bell and Banksia Streets (the "Bell-Banksia Link") in western Heidelberg, built to relieve traffic congestion and improve safety around the Burgundy Street shopping precinct, started in December 1988[10] and was completed on 1 July 1992, at a total cost of $40 million.[11]

Bell Street was signed as Metropolitan Route 40 between Pascoe Vale South and Heidelberg in 1965, heading south at its western end along Reynolds Parade and Woodland Street to reach Lancefield Road: this was re-routed via Tullamarine Freeway in 1970. The south-eastern end of Metropolitan Route 40 was later re-routed to run across the entire corridor to Edithvale, replacing Metropolitan Route 11, in 1989, with an adjustment running from Burgundy, Jika and Dora Streets to the Bell-Banksia Link (and Banksia Street) through Heidelberg when it opened in 1992.[citation needed]

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004

Donvale and Mornington Peninsula Freeway in Chelsea Heights,[4] while downgrading the remaining roads within the corridor as Main Roads: Manningham Road (Arterial #5221),[13] Williamsons Road (Arterial #5225),[14] Doncaster Road (Arterial #5805),[15] Mitcham Road (Arterial #5804),[16] and the remnants of Springvale Road (Arterial #5797),[17] with the former alignment along Burgundy Street declared as Bell Street Road (Arterial #5818).[18]

Regardless of official declarations, all roads along the corridor are still presently known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.

1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan

The original 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan showed the F4 Freeway following the Tullamarine Freeway, Bell and Banksia Streets, to Williamsons Road then joining the F7 Freeway heading south along the Middleborough Road and the Blackburn Road corridor to the F2 Freeway (Dingley Freeway) between Clayton and Westall Roads (rather than Springvale Road).[citation needed]

Level crossing removal

In January 2010, rail tracks in Nunawading were lowered below-ground as part of a level-crossing elimination project. A similar project was undertaken in Springvale in May 2014.[19] Under the Level Crossing Removal Project, the level crossing at Edithvale was removed in November 2021[20] and the level crossing at Bell was removed in May 2022.[21]

Major intersections

LGALocation[1][4][13][14][15][16][17]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
Tullamarine, Melbourne Airport
Western terminus of north western section of highway (declared) and Metro Route 40
Western end of Bell Street
Coolaroo, Moonee Ponds
Eastbound entry from Pascoe Vale Road via CityLink ramp
1.00.62Reynolds Parade, to
Port Melbourne
Upfield railway line
3.32.1
Sydney Road (Metro Route 55) – Craigieburn, Brunswick, Docklands
No right turn westbound to Sydney Road northbound
3.52.2Elm Grove, to
Sydney Road northbound – Craigieburn
4.42.7Nicholson Street –
Brunswick East
DarebinPreston6.13.8 St Georges Road (Metro Route 45) – Reservoir, Fitzroy
6.33.9
Mernda railway line
6.64.1 High Street (Metro Route 29) – Epping, Richmond, St Kilda
6.94.3
Mernda
8.25.1 Albert Street (Metro Route 21) – Reservoir, Kew, Burnley
Heidelberg West, Ivanhoe
Heidelberg Heights border
11.37.0Bell Street – HeidelbergEastbound exit only
Eastern end of Bell Street, western end of Bell-Banksia Link
Diamond Creek
Westbound entrance only
Heidelberg11.97.4Studley Road – Heidelberg, IvanhoeEastern end of Bell–Banksia Link, western end of Banksia Street
12.07.5
Hurstbridge railway line
Eaglemont border
12.88.0 Lower Heidelberg Road (Metro Route 44/Tourist Route 2 south) – Ivanhoe, Eltham, Kangaroo GroundWestern terminus of concurrency with Tourist Route 2
Bulleen
No right turn westbound into Bridge Street eastbound
Eastern terminus of concurrency with Tourist Route 2
Eastern end of Banksia Street, western end of Manningham Road
14.08.7
Bulleen
Southbound entrance and northbound exit only
Under construction, expected project completion 2028
14.18.8
Balwyn North
Eastern terminus of north western section of highway (declared)
15.99.9 Thompsons Road (Metro Route 42) –
Warrandyte
Templestowe, Eltham
Northern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 47
Eastern end of Manningham Road, northern end of Williamsons Road
Balwyn North
Tram Road (Metro Route 47 south) – Box Hill, Huntingdale
Southern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 47, southern end of Williamsons Road
Western terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 36, western end of Doncaster Road
20.812.9
Aspendale Gardens
Burwood East, Notting Hill
Park Orchards
Western end of Doncaster Road, eastern end of Mitcham Road
24.315.1 Mitcham Road (Metro Route 36 east) –
Donvale
Eastern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 36, eastern end of Mitcham Road
Northern end of Springvale Road
Eastern Freeway (M3 west) – City
EastLink (M3 east) – Frankston
Northern terminus of south-eastern section of highway (declared)
WhitehorseNunawading26.716.6 Whitehorse Road (Metro Route 34) – Kew, Box Hill, Ringwood, Lilydale
26.916.7
Lilydale railway lines
Heathmont, Montrose
Ferntree Gully
Vermont South
Wantirna South
34.721.6Waverley Road –
Wheelers Hill
City
Dandenong, Pakenham
Outbound entrance and inbound exit only
Rowville, Emerald
Dandenong North
Springvale Junction
Dandenong
41.425.7
Cranbourne railway lines
Springvale South border
42.926.7 Heatherton Road (Metro Route 14) – Heatherton, Noble Park
Dandenong South
Dandenong
Narre Warren
Dingley Village, Frankston, Rosebud
Southern terminus of south eastern section of highway (declared)
Springvale Road (Metro Route 40 south) –
Edithvale
Metro Route 40 continues south along Springvale Road
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

  • List of Melbourne highways

References

  1. ^ a b c "State (Bell/Springvale) Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1950". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 4 December 1950. p. 35.
  3. ^ a b "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 30 June 1983. pp. 1969–70. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 955–7. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1987". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 30 September 1987. p. 67.
  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. ^ 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
  8. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 7 September 1960. pp. 2977–81. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1989". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 14 November 1989. p. 45.
  11. ^ "VicRoads Annual Report 1991-92". VicRoads. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 30 September 1992. p. 37.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 324. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  14. ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 328. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  15. ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 754. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  16. ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 753. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  17. ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 742. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  18. ^ VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 766. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  19. ^ "Level Crossing Removal Project". VicRoads. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  20. ^ "Lochiel Avenue, Edithvale". Victoria's Big Build. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  21. ^ "Bell Street, Preston". Victoria's Big Build. 15 September 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.


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