Burwood Highway Toorak Road | |
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| Burwood Highway through Burwood East | |
  West end East end | |
| Coordinates | |
| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 29.7 km (18 mi)[3] |
| Gazetted | October 1913(as Main Road)[1] 1959/60(as State Highway)[2] |
| Route number(s) |
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| Former route number |  Metro Route 26(1965–1998)(Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave) |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Toorak Road Hawthorn, Melbourne |
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| East end |  Monbulk Road Belgrave–Gembrook RoadBelgrave, Melbourne |
| Location(s) | |
| Major settlements | Burwood,Wantirna South,Ferntree Gully,Upwey |
| Highway system | |
Burwood Highway (and its western section asToorak Road) is a major transportation link withMelbourne's eastern fringe at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges, linking the suburbs ofHawthorn andBelgrave.[4] The highway is considered a major link for people who live in theDandenong 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 commences at the interchange withCityLink andMonash Freeway atHawthorn and heads east as Toorak Road, a four-lanesingle carriageway (often clogged with heavy traffic) through the southern fringes ofCamberwell, with tram services continuing east along the road where it meets Camberwell Road. At the intersection withWarrigal Road inBurwood, it changes name to Burwood Highway and widens to become a six-lanedual carriageway highway, with a dedicated central median for tram tracks, carrying the Route75 service throughBurwood East toVermont South. It passes theWestfield Knox shopping centre inWantirna South, heading in a south-easterly direction throughFerntree Gully until it meets Mount Dandenong Tourist Road atUpper Ferntree Gully, where it narrows back to a four-lane single carriageway road, until it eventually terminates at a roundabout with Monbulk and Belgrave–Gembrook Roads inBelgrave.
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.(Main) Ferntree Gully Road was declared a Main Road, fromFentree Gully throughUpwey toBelgrave (and continuing west throughWheelers Hill toOakleigh), on 20 October 1913.[1]
The passing of theCountry Roads Act of 1958[6] (itself an evolution from the originalHighways and Vehicles Act of 1924[7]) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board.Burwood Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1959/60 financial year,[2] fromWarrigal Road inBurwood viaVermont South, toUpper Ferntree Gully for a total of 12.5 miles (20.1 km), subsuming the original declaration of (Main) Ferntree Gully Road until Upper Ferntree Gully as a Main Road; before this declaration, this road was also referred to as Burwood Road.[2]Toorak Road was declared a Main Road on 9 May 1983,[8] from the intersection with South Eastern Freeway inHawthorn to meet the western end of Burwood Highway inBurwood.
The declaration of the highway was extended a further 4.0 km (2.5 mi) east alongMonbulk Road toBelgrave by VicRoads in June 1990,[9] and west along Toorak Road to theSouth Eastern Arterial atHawthorn in October 1993,[10] subsuming its original declaration as a Main Road, 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 throughBurwood East from Middleborough Road to Blackburn Road in July 1993.[11]
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 theRoad Management Act 2004[12] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared Burwood Highway (Arterial #6750) fromMonash Freeway inHawthorn to Belgrave-Gembrook Road inBelgrave.[4]
| LGA | Location[3][4] | km[3] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Stonnington | Kooyong–Malvern–Hawthorntripoint | 0.0 | 0.0 | Toorak Road (Metro Route 26 west) – Toorak,South Yarra | Western terminus of highway (declared) Metro Route 26 continues west along Toorak Road |
 CityLink (M1 north) –City,Geelong Monash Freeway (M1 south) – Chadstone,Dandenong | Single-point urban interchange | ||||
| Boroondara | Hawthorn | 0.1 | 0.062 | Auburn Road – Kew | |
| Hawthorn East | 0.4 | 0.25 | Tooronga Road – Malvern | ||
| Camberwell | 1.3 | 0.81 |  Burke Road (Metro Route 17) – Caulfield,Camberwell | ||
| 2.6 | 1.6 | Glen Iris Road – Glen Iris | |||
| 3.2 | 2.0 |  Camberwell Road (Metro Route 30) north-west – Camberwell,Hawthorn | No right turn from Camberwell Road to Toorak Road westbound | ||
| Boroondara–Whitehorse boundary | Camberwell–Burwood boundary | 5.0 | 3.1 |  Warrigal Road (Metro Route 15) – Oakleigh,Chadstone,Surrey Hills | Eastern end of Toorak Road Western end of Burwood Highway (sign-posted) |
| Whitehorse | Burwood | 6.2 | 3.9 | Elgar Road – Doncaster | |
| 7.1 | 4.4 |  Station Street (Metro Route 47) – Box Hill,Huntingdale | |||
| Burwood–Burwood East boundary | 8.2 | 5.1 |  Middleborough Road (Metro Route 23) – Doncaster,Clayton,Mordialloc | ||
| Burwood East | 9.0 | 5.6 |  Blackburn Road (Metro Route 13) – Blackburn,Clayton | ||
| Burwood East–Forest Hill–Vermont South tripoint | 11.5 | 7.1 |  Springvale Road (Metro Route 40) – Glen Waverley,Nunawading | ||
| Knox | Wantirna–Wantirna South boundary | 14.9 | 9.3 |  Mountain Highway (Metro Route 28) – Bayswater,Wantirna | |
| 15.4 | 9.6 |  EastLink (M3) – Dandenong,Frankston,Ringwood,Melbourne | Diamond interchange | ||
| 17.6 | 10.9 |  Stud Road (Metro Route 9) – Bayswater,Scoresby | |||
| Wantirna South | 18.8 | 11.7 |  High Street Road (Metro Route 24 south) – Glen Waverley,Glen Iris,ScoresbyLewis Road (north) – Wantirna South | ||
| Knoxfield–Ferntree Gully boundary | 19.7 | 12.2 |  Scoresby Road (Metro Route 7) – Scoresby,Bayswater,Croydon | ||
| Ferntree Gully | 21.6 | 13.4 |  Ferntree Gully Road (Metro Route 22 west) – Scoresby,OakleighCommercial Road (north) – Ferntree Gully | Western terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 22 | |
| 22.3 | 13.9 |  Dorset Road (Metro Route 5 north) – Boronia,Lilydale | Concurrency with Metro Route 5 | ||
| 22.7 | 14.1 | Glenfern Road (Metro Route 5 south) – Lysterfield,Narre Warren | |||
| 23.4 | 14.5 | Brenock Park Drive (south) – Lysterfield Selman Avenue (north) – Ferntree Gully | |||
| Knox–Yarra Ranges boundary | Upper Ferntree Gully | 25.4 | 15.8 |  Mount Dandenong Tourist Road (C415) – Olinda,Mount Dandenong | Eastern terminuses of Metro Routes 22 and 26 Western terminus of route C412 |
| Yarra Ranges | Tecoma | 28.1 | 17.5 | Glenfern Road – Rowville | |
| Belgrave | 29.7 | 18.5 | Monbulk Road (C404 north) – Monbulk,Lilydale Belgrave–Gembrook Road (C404/C412 east) – Gembrook,Narre Warren Terrys Avenue (west) – Tecoma | Eastern terminus of highway Route C412 continues east along Belgrave-Gembrook Road | |
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