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Hyland Highway | |
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| View of the Loy Yang power station from Hyland Highway | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 59.9 km (37 mi)[1] |
| Gazetted | December 1913(as Main Road)[2] December 1990(as State Highway)[3] |
| Route number(s) |  C482(1998–present) |
| Former route number |  State Route 188(1990–1998) |
| Major junctions | |
| North end |  Princes HighwayTraralgon, Victoria |
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| South end |  South Gippsland HighwayYarram, Victoria |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Gormandale |
| Highway system | |
Hyland Highway is a rural highway connecting the towns ofTraralgon andYarram in theGippsland region ofVictoria,Australia.[4] It was named after SirHerbert Hyland, a popular politician for theCountry Party in the Gippsland area.
Highland Highway commences at the intersection ofPrinces Street and Breed Street inTraralgon and heading south as a two-lane, single carriageway road, nearly immediately crossing theBairnsdale railway line just east ofMorwell railway station, then heads east after a roundabout, then after another kilometre turns south to leave Traralgon's suburbs, curving aroundLoy Yang'sopen-cut coal mine, then heads south throughGormandale, through the eastern stretches of theStrzelecki Ranges, to eventually terminate at the intersection withSouth Gippsland Highway, just north-east ofYarram.
The passing of theCountry Roads Act of 1912[5] through theParliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of theCountry Roads Board (laterVicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities.Traralgon-Gormandale Road was declared a Main Road, fromTraralgon to Flynns Creek on 1 December 1913,[2] and from Flynns Creek toGormandale on 23 March 1914.[6] The road was later renamedYarram-Traralgon Road and declared a Main Road by the Country Roads Board from at least 1955.[7]
The construction of the open-cut coal mine forLoy Yang Power Station in the late 1970s required the road to be re-routed along Traralgon Creek Road (west of the coal mine) and Bartons Lane (south of the coal mine); the former alignment is now known as Craigburn Place (to the mine's north) and Broomfields Lane (to the mine's south-east).
The passing of theTransport Act of 1983[8] (itself an evolution from the originalHighways and Vehicles Act of 1924[9]) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through theRoad Construction Authority (laterVicRoads).Hyland Highway was declared a State Highway in December 1990,[3] fromTraralgon toYarram; before this declaration, the road was referred to asTraralgon Creek Road andYarram-Traralgon Road.[3]
Hyland Highway was signed as State Route 188 between Traralgon and Yarram in 1990; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, it was replaced by route C482.
The passing of theRoad Management Act 2004[10] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads toVicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hyland Highway (Arterial #6170), beginning atPrinces Highway atTraralgon and ending atSouth Gippsland Highway inYarram.[4]
| LGA | Location[1][4] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Latrobe | Traralgon | 0.0 | 0.0 | Princes Highway (M1 east, west) – Sale,Bairnsdale,Warragul,Melbourne Breed Street (north) – Traralgon | Northern terminus of highway and route C482 at traffic lights |
| 0.1 | 0.062 | Bairnsdale railway line | |||
| 0.2 | 0.12 |  Bank Street (C476) – Churchill,Boolarra | Roundabout | ||
| Loy Yang–Traralgon South boundary | 6.6 | 4.1 |  Mattingley Hill Road (C475) – Morwell,Churchill,Boolarra | ||
| 6.9 | 4.3 |  Traralgon Creek Road (C483) – Callignee | |||
| Wellington | Willung South | 31.6 | 19.6 |  Grand Ridge Road (C484) – Carrajung,Mirboo North | |
| Carrajung Lower | 39.1 | 24.3 |  Carrajung–Woodside Road (C453) – Woodside,Woodside Beach | ||
| Yarram | 59.9 | 37.2 | South Gippsland Highway (A440) – Sale,Foster,Leongatha,Lang Lang | Southern terminus of highway and route C482 | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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