Burwood Highway

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

Burwood Highway, Burwood East
Burwood Highway is located in Melbourne
West end
West end
East end
East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length30 km (19 mi)[1]
Route number(s)
  • Metro Route 26 (1965–present)
    (Hawthorn–Upper Ferntree Gully)
  • C412 (1998–present)
    (Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave)
  • Concurrencies:
  • Metro Route 22 (1965–present)
    (Ferntree Gully–Upper Ferntree Gully)
  • Metro Route 5 (1989–present)
    (through Ferntree Gully)
Former
route number
Metro Route 26 (1965–1998)
(Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave)
Major junctions
West end Toorak Road
Hawthorn, Melbourne
 
East end Monbulk Road
Belgrave–Gembrook Road
Belgrave, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major settlementsBurwood, Burwood East, Wantirna South, Ferntree Gully, Upwey, Belgrave
Highway system

Route

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:

  • Emerald (Shire of Cardinia) (46 km (28.6 mi) from Melbourne) (11 km (6.8 mi) from Belgrave)
  • Cockatoo (Shire of Cardinia) (52 km (32.3 mi) from Melbourne) (17 km (10.6 mi) from Belgrave)
  • Gembrook (Shire of Cardina) (60 km (37.3 mi) from Melbourne) (25 km (15.5 mi) from Belgrave)

History

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]

Major intersections

LGALocation[1][2]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
StonningtonKooyongMalvernHawthorn tripoint00.0 Toorak Road (Metro Route 26 west)  Toorak, South YarraWestern terminus of declared highway; continues west as Toorak Road
CityLink (M1 north) – City, Geelong
Monash Freeway (M1 south)  Chadstone, Dandenong
Single-point urban interchange
BoroondaraHawthorn0.10.062Auburn Road  Kew
Hawthorn East0.40.25Tooronga Road  Malvern
Camberwell1.30.81 Burke Road (Metro Route 17)  Caulfield, Camberwell
2.61.6Glen Iris Road  Glen Iris
3.22.0 Camberwell Road (Metro Route 30) north-west  Camberwell, HawthornNo right turn from Camberwell Road to Toorak Road westbound
BoroondaraWhitehorse boundaryCamberwellBurwood boundary5.03.1 Warrigal Road (Metro Route 15)  Oakleigh, Chadstone, Surrey HillsName transition: Toorak Road west, Burwood Highway east
WhitehorseBurwood6.23.9Elgar Road  Doncaster
7.14.4 Station Street (Metro Route 47)  Box Hill, Huntingdale
BurwoodBurwood East boundary8.25.1 Middleborough Road (Metro Route 23)  Doncaster, Clayton, Mordialloc
Burwood East9.05.6 Blackburn Road (Metro Route 13)  Blackburn, Clayton
Burwood EastForest HillVermont South tripoint11.57.1 Springvale Road (Metro Route 40)  Glen Waverley, Nunawading
KnoxWantirnaWantirna South boundary14.99.3 Mountain Highway (Metro Route 28)  Bayswater, Wantirna
15.49.6 EastLink (M3)  Dandenong, Frankston, Ringwood, MelbourneDiamond interchange
17.610.9 Stud Road (Metro Route 9)  Bayswater, Scoresby
Wantirna South18.811.7 High Street Road (Metro Route 24 south)  Glen Waverley, Glen Iris, Scoresby
Lewis Road (north)  Wantirna South
KnoxfieldFerntree Gully boundary19.712.2 Scoresby Road (Metro Route 7)  Scoresby, Bayswater, Croydon
Ferntree Gully21.613.4 Ferntree Gully Road (Metro Route 22 west)  Scoresby, Oakleigh
Commercial Road (north)  Ferntree Gully
Western terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 22
22.313.9 Dorset Road (Metro Route 5 north)  Boronia, LilydaleConcurrency with Metro Route 5
22.714.1 Glenfern Road (Metro Route 5 south)  Lysterfield, Narre Warren
23.414.5Brenock Park Drive (south)  Lysterfield
Selman Avenue (north)  Ferntree Gully
KnoxYarra Ranges boundaryUpper Ferntree Gully25.415.8 Mount Dandenong Tourist Road (C415)  Olinda, Mount DandenongRoute transition: eastern terminii of Metro Routes 22 and 26, western terminus of route C412
Yarra RangesTecoma28.117.5Glenfern Road  Rowville
Belgrave29.818.5 Monbulk Road (C404 north)  Monbulk, Lilydale
Belgrave–Gembrook Road (C404/C412 east)  Gembrook, Narre Warren
Terrys Avenue (west)  Tecoma
Roundabout; eastern highway terminus

See also

References

  1. Google (19 October 2021). "Burwood Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  2. VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 1027–1028. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  3. 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
  4. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1960". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 November 1960. pp. 7–8.
  5. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 20 June 1990. pp. 1865, 1867. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  6. "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 28 October 1993. pp. 2902–3. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  7. "VicRoads Annual Report 1992-93". VicRoads. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 29 September 1993. p. 42.
  8. 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.
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