Dandenong Valley Highway Stud Road, Foster Street, Frankston–Dandenong Road | |
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| Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong | |
  North end South end | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 32.2 km (20 mi)[1] |
| Gazetted | December 1918(as Developmental Road)[2] March 1990(as State Highway)[3] |
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| Major junctions | |
| North end |  Stud RoadWantirna South, Melbourne |
| South end | Dandenong Road West Frankston, Melbourne |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Scoresby,Rowville,Dandenong,Carrum Downs |
| Highway system | |
Dandenong Valley Highway is an urban highway stretching over 30 kilometres fromBayswater inMelbourne's eastern suburbs toFrankston in the south. This name covers many consecutive streets and is not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts:Stud Road,Foster Street andDandenong-Frankston Road.
The traffic on the highway has been significant over the years with the worst bottlenecks at Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully Road, Wellington Road, Princes Highway, and Thompsons Road, but since the opening of theEastLink, the traffic burden has significantly reduced along the highway with the north–south tollway, opening to traffic on 29 June 2008.
Dandenong Valley Highway commences at the intersection of Stud Road andBurwood Highway inWantirna South and heads south as Stud Road as a six-lane, dual-carriageway road (sharing a dedicated bus lane on-and-off) and continues south throughScoresby toRowville, crossing Wellington Road and narrowing back to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues south toDandenong, narrowing further to a four-lane, single-carriageway road south past David Street, changes name to Foster Street south of Clow Street, to the intersection withPrinces Highway through central Dandenong. Running concurrent along Princes Highway, it resumes running south along Frankston–Dandenong Road as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road throughDandenong South andCarrum Downs, where it eventually crosses west under theFrankston railway line and terminates at the intersection with Overton Road, Wells Road and Dandenong Road West inFrankston.
The passing of theCountry Roads Act of 1912[4] 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; the later passing of theDevelopmental Roads Act of 1918[5] allowed the Country Road Board to declare Developmental Roads, serving to develop any area of land by providing access to a railway station for primary producers.Dandenong-Frankston Road was declared a Developmental Road fromFrankston toLyndhurst on 11 December 1918,[2] and from Lyndhurst toDandenong on 1 July 1919,[6] then re-declared as a Main Road across its entire length on 26 March 1926.[7]
The elimination of the railway crossing where Dandenong–Frankston Road crossed thePakenham railway line inDandenong commenced in 1956, carried out by theDandenong Shire Council, with assistance fromVictorian Railways and the Country Roads Board,[8] and completed in 1957, with the eastern half of a four-lane overpass over the railway completed and open to traffic in September, and the western half completed not long afterwards.[9]
The entire alignment (as its constituent roads) was signed as Metropolitan Route 9 between Wantirna and Frankston in 1965. It was re-routed from Dandenong Road East and Beach Street through Frankston to its current alignment when the Beach Street railway crossing was eliminated in 1991.
The passing of theTransport Act of 1983[10] (itself an evolution from the originalHighways and Vehicles Act of 1924[11]) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through theRoad Construction Authority (later VicRoads).Stud Highway andDandenong-Frankston Highway were both declared State Highways in March 1990,[3] fromBurwood Highway inWantirna South toPrinces Highway inDandenong (as Stud Highway), and from there to the Wells Road/Overton Road intersection just north ofFrankston (as Dandenong–Frankston Highway, subsuming the original declaration of Dandenong-Frankston Road as a Main Road). These two highways were fused into one only 9 months later, and re-declared asDandenong Valley Highway in December 1990,[12] in the same alignment as the previous highways, fromWantirna South toFrankston; however all roads were known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.
The passing of theRoad Management Act 2004[13] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads toVicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads declared the road asDandenong Valley Highway (Arterial #6090), fromBurwood Highway inWantirna South to Wells Road crossing underneath theFrankston railway line inFrankston,[14] while re-declaring the remaining roads within the corridor asStud Road (Arterial #5796),[15] andKlauer Road (today Klauer Street, Wells Road and Dandenong Road West) (Arterial #5159);[16] as before, all roads are still presently known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.
In April 2024 the section of Stud Road from Monash Freeway to Heatherton Road in Dandenong was reduced from 80km/h to 60km/h after a number of fatal accidents; two pedestrians had been killed in the previous six years, with the local council calling for additional safety measures such as a pedestrian crossing or overpass for access from the western side of Stud Road across toDandenong Stadium.[17][18][19][20]
| LGA | Location[1][14][15][16] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Knox | Wantirna South | 0.0 | 0.0 | Stud Road (Metro Route 9 north) – Wantirna,Ringwood,Boronia | Northern terminus of Dandenong Valley Highway, Metro Route 9 continues north along Stud Road towards Ringwood |
 Burwood Highway (Metro Route 26) – Ferntree Gully,Belgrave,City | |||||
| 1.0 | 0.62 |  High Street Road (Metro Route 24) – Glen Waverley,Wantirna South | |||
| Scoresby | 3.4 | 2.1 |  Ferntree Gully Road (Metro Route 22) – Oakleigh,Ferntree Gully | ||
| Rowville | 4.8 | 3.0 | Kelletts Road – Ferntree Gully | ||
| 6.8 | 4.2 |   Wellington Road (Metro Route 18 west/C413 east) – Mulgrave,Oakleigh,Lysterfield,Emerald | |||
| 6.9 | 4.3 | Bergins Road – Endeavour Hills,Doveton | |||
| Greater Dandenong | Dandenong North | 10.4 | 6.5 |  Monash Freeway (M1) – Pakenham,Warragul,Chadstone,City | |
| Dandenong | 11.6 | 7.2 |  Heatherton Road (Metro Route 14) – Noble Park,Endeavour Hills | ||
| 13.3 | 8.3 | Clow Street – Dandenong,Doveton | Southern end of Stud Road, northern end of Foster Street | ||
| 14.0 | 8.7 |  Lonsdale Street (Alt National Route 1 north) – Oakleigh,City Foster Street (Metro Route 10 west) – Mentone,Black Rock | Concurrency with route National Alt Route 1 Southern end of Foster Street east of Lonsdale Street, northern end of Dandenong-Frankston Road south of Lonsdale Street | ||
| 14.8 | 9.2 | Lonsdale Street (Alt National Route 1 east) – Berwick | |||
| 15.1 | 9.4 | Pakenham andCranbourne railway lines | |||
| Dandenong South | 15.7 | 9.8 | Dandenong Bypass – Keysborough,Clayton | ||
| 16.8 | 10.4 |  Greens Road (Metro Route 12) – Mordialloc,Keysborough | |||
| Frankston | Carrum Downs | 23.6 | 14.7 |  Thompson Road (Metro Route 6 west) – CarrumThompsons Road (Metro Route 6 east) – Cranbourne,Clyde North | |
| 27.3 | 17.0 |  Lathams Road (B664 west) – Seaford Hall Road (B664 east) – Skye,Cranbourne | |||
| 28.7 | 17.8 |  Mornington Peninsula Freeway (M11) – Dingley Village,Frankston,Mount Martha,Rosebud | |||
| Frankston North | 29.3 | 18.2 | Seaford Road (west) – Seaford Ballarto Road (east) – Skye | ||
| Seaford | 32.0 | 19.9 |  Frankston Freeway (M3) – Ringwood,Frankston South,City | ||
| 32.2 | 20.0 | Skye Road (east) – Frankston Dandenong Road East (south) – Frankston | |||
| Seaford–Frankston boundary | Frankston railway line | ||||
| Frankston | Overton Road (west) – Frankston Wells Road (north) – Seaford | ||||
| Dandenong Road West (Metro Route 9 south) – Frankston | Southern terminus of Dandenong Valley Highway, southern end of Dandenong–Frankston Road Metro Route 9 continues south along Dandenong Road West towards Frankston | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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