Maroondah Highway
Maroondah Highway Whitehorse Road Victoria | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 188 km (117 mi) |
Route number(s) | |
Former route number | |
Major junctions | |
Southwest end | Cotham Road (State Route 34), Balwyn, Melbourne |
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Northeast end | Mount Buller Road (C320), Mansfield |
Location(s) | |
Major settlements | Nunawading, Ringwood, Lilydale, Coldstream, Healesville, Buxton, Alexandra, Merton |
Highway system | |
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria | |
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Maroondah Highway[2] (also known as Whitehorse Road from Balwyn to Croydon[3]), is a major east-west thoroughfare in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and a highway servicing the lower alpine region Victoria, Australia.
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. The primary route to Gippsland from the CBD is now through Monash Freeway and the South Gippsland Highway.
The road, when first built, was named Three Chain Road, due to the road width being 66 yards (60 m) wide.
The traffic led to the establishment of a hotel in Box Hill named the White Horse hotel which had been named in respect to a horse belonging to Capt 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.[4]
Route
Whitehorse Road begins as a continuation of Cotham Road at Burke Road, through the suburbs of Balwyn and Deepdene. At this point, it is a typical inner-Melbourne, four lane, single carriageway arterial road. The route 109 tram also runs along this stretch of the road.[5]
The road continues through Mont Albert, until its intersection with Elgar Road in Box Hill, where the road becomes a four lane dual carriageway with trams running down the central median strip. Burke Road and Elgar Roads being the east and west boundaries of Captain Elgar's original two mile square property. The tram terminates at Market Street, a few blocks further on. From this point, Whitehorse Road is also known as Maroondah Highway, a three lane divided highway, though it retains its name through the municipalities of Whitehorse and Maroondah. It passes through the suburbs of Blackburn, Nunawading, Mitcham, Ringwood and Croydon. From here, the Maroondah Highway continues on past Lilydale, as a rural highway. There is a moderately steep and moderately twisty section through forest between Healesville and Buxton, and the road then continues through farmland all the way through to Mansfield via Alexandra and Bonnie Doon.
Major intersections and towns
Maroondah Highway | |||
Westbound | Distance to Kew (km) |
Distance to Lilydale (km) |
Eastbound |
End Whitehorse Road (Maroondah Highway) continues as Cotham Road to Kew and Melbourne |
2.5 | 28.5 | Start Whitehorse Road (Maroondah Highway) from Cotham Road |
Camberwell, Heidelberg Burke Road | |||
Balwyn | 4.3 | 26.7 | Balwyn |
Canterbury, Doncaster Balwyn Road |
Doncaster, Canterbury Balwyn Road | ||
Burwood, Doncaster; Elgar Road |
7.3 | 23.7 | Doncaster, Burwood Elgar Road |
Westbound | Distance to Box Hill (km) |
Distance to Lilydale (km) |
Eastbound |
Box Hill | 0 | 23 | Box Hill |
Huntingdale, Doncaster Station Street |
0.1 | 22.9 | Doncaster, Huntingdale Station Street |
To Melbourne Mount Waverley, Doncaster Middleborough Road |
1.4 | 21.6 | Doncaster, Mount Waverley Middleborough Road |
continues as | 2.9 | 20.1 | Blackburn, Edithvale Chapel Street (Blackburn Road) |
Blackburn, Edithvale Chapel Street (Blackburn Road) |
continues as | ||
continues as | 3 | 20 | To Melbourne Doncaster East, Warrandyte Surrey Road (Blackburn Road) |
To Melbourne Doncaster East, Warrandyte Surrey Road (Blackburn Road) |
continues as | ||
Nunawading | 4.8 | 18.2 | Nunawading |
To Melbourne Glen Waverley, Donvale Springvale Road |
Donvale, Glen Waverley Springvale Road | ||
Mitcham | 6.4 | 16.6 | Mitcham |
Wantirna, Donvale, Doncaster Mitcham Road |
Donvale, Wantirna, Boronia Mitcham Road | ||
Doncaster, Melbourne EastLink Ringwood Bypass |
8.4 | 14.6 | Doncaster, Melbourne EastLink Ringwood Bypass |
Dandenong, Frankston EastLink |
Dandenong, Frankston EastLink | ||
continues as | 9.4 | 13.6 | Wantirna Wantirna Road |
Wantirna Wantirna Road |
continues as | ||
Ringwood | 9.5 | 13.5 | Ringwood |
continues as | 9.7 | 13.3 | Warrandyte Warrandyte Road |
Warrandyte Warrandyte Road |
continues as | ||
Westbound | Distance to Melbourne via (km) |
Distance to Lilydale (km) |
Eastbound |
Croydon, Mount Dandenong Mount Dandenong Road To Melbourne Ringwood Bypass |
28.4 | 12.6 | Croydon, Montrose, Mount Dandenong Mount Dandenong Road To Ringwood Bypass |
continues as | 32.8 | 8.2 | Croydon, Bayswater Kent Avenue |
Croydon, Bayswater Kent Avenue |
continues as | ||
continues as | 33 | 8 | Wonga Park, Warrandyte Yarra Road |
Wonga Park, Warrandyte Yarra Road |
continues as | ||
continues as Whitehorse Road (Maroondah Highway) | 34 | 7 | continues as Maroondah Highway |
Boronia, Ferntree Gully Dorset Road |
35.5 | 5.5 | Boronia Dorset Road |
Lilydale | 41 | 0 | Lilydale |
Westbound | Distance to Melbourne via (km) |
Distance to Alexandra (km) |
Eastbound |
To Monbulk Montrose, Bayswater Anderson Street |
41.5 | 90.5 | To Monbulk Montrose, Bayswater Anderson Street |
End Start |
43.5 | 88.5 | Woori Yallock, Warburton Warburton Highway |
Woori Yallock, Warburton Warburton Highway |
End Start | ||
Coldstream | 46 | 86 | Coldstream |
End continues as |
47 | 85 | Yarra Glen, Yea Melba Highway |
Yarra Glen Melba Highway |
continues as | ||
Woori Yallock, Cockatoo, Pakenham, Koo Wee Rup Healesville-Koo Wee Rup Road |
61 | 71 | Woori Yallock, Cockatoo Healesville-Koo Wee Rup Road |
Yarra Glen, Kinglake, Yea Healesville-Kinglake Road |
63 | 69 | Yarra Glen, Kinglake, Yea Healesville-Kinglake Road |
Healesville | 63.5 | 68.5 | Healesville |
Badger Creek Badger Creek Road |
64 | 68 | Badger Creek Badger Creek Road |
Mount Donna Buang, Yarra Junction Don Road |
64.5 | 67.5 | Mount Donna Buang, Yarra Junction Don Road |
Narbethong | 87 | 47 | Narbethong |
To Mount Donna Buang, Warburton Marysville Marysville Road |
88 | 44 | To Mount Donna Buang, Warburton Marysville, Lake Mountain Marysville Road |
To Lake Mountain Marysville Buxton-Marysville Road |
102.5 | 29.5 | Marysville Buxton-Marysville Road |
Buxton | 103 | 29 | Buxton |
Eildon Taggerty-Thornton Road |
114 | 18 | Eildon, Jamieson Taggerty-Thornton Road |
Alexandra | 132 | 0 | Alexandra |
Southbound | Distance to Alexandra (km) |
Distance to Mansfield (km) |
Northbound |
continues as | 0 | 69 | Eildon Goulburn Valley Highway |
Eildon Goulburn Valley Highway |
End continues as | ||
End continues as |
7 | 62 | Yea, Seymour Goulburn Valley Highway |
Yea, Seymour Goulburn Valley Highway |
continues as | ||
Westbound | Distance to Melbourne via Yarra Glen (km) |
Distance to Mansfield (km) |
Eastbound |
continues as | 133 | 56 | no intersection |
Yea, Seymour, Yarra Glen, Melbourne Maroondah Link Highway |
End continues as | ||
Euroa, Shepparton Euroa-Mansfield Road |
152 | 37 | Euroa, Shepparton Euroa-Mansfield Road |
Merton | Merton | ||
Bonnie Doon | 167 | 22 | Bonnie Doon |
End continues as |
177 | 12 | To Wodonga, Sydney Benalla Midland Link Highway |
Benalla Midland Link Highway |
continues as | ||
Mansfield | 189 | 0 | Mansfield |
Start Maroondah Highway | End Maroondah Highway | ||
Roundabout (clockwise from highway) Midland Highway to Benalla Mount Buller Road to Mount Buller and Whitfield Highett Street |
See also
References
- ↑ State Route 153 - Melba Highway to Midland Highway via Maroondah Highway, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
- ↑ Decommissioned State Route 34 - Maroondah Highway, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
- ↑ Metropolitan Route 34 - Maroondah Highway, Main Roads Victoria. Retrieved on 15 September 2013.
- ↑ "Box Hill - Place". eMelbourne. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ↑ "Routes - 190". Public Transport Victoria. Retrieved 16 January 2016.