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Sunraysia Highway | |
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| Sunraysia Highway, just outside Birchip | |
  North end South end | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 330.2 km (205 mi)[3] |
| Gazetted | December 1914(as Main Road)[1] 1947/48(as State Highway)[2] |
| Route number(s) |  B220(1998–present) |
| Former route number |  State Route 121(1986–1998) |
| Major junctions | |
| North end |  Calder HighwayOuyen, Victoria |
| South end |  Western FreewayMitchell Park, Victoria |
| Location(s) | |
| Region | Loddon Mallee,Grampians[4] |
| Major settlements | Speed,Lascelles,Woomelang,Birchip,Donald,St Arnaud,Avoca,Lexton |
| Highway system | |
Sunraysia Highway (route B220) is a 330 kilometres (205 mi) north–south rural highway in westernVictoria, linkingOuyen to the north-westernBallarat suburb ofMitchell Park,[5] and acts as a secondary route toCalder Highway, the main route betweenMelbourne andMildura. It serves a number of important industries in the region such as agriculture, viticulture, food processing, winemaking and tourism. It forms an important link for these industries to markets and ports in the south of Victoria and South Australia.
Sunraysia Highway commences at the intersection withCalder Highway and heads in a southerly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway rural highway, mostly following the course ofMildura railway line through the easternWimmera region. It meetsHenty Highway inLascelles, takes a more south-easterly direction throughBirchip and meetsBorung Highway inDonald and thenWimmera Highway inSt Arnaud, before heads again in a southerly direction, meetingPyrenees Highway inAvoca and heading again in a south-easterly direction until it eventually terminates at the interchange withWestern Freeway on the north-western borders ofBallarat atMitchell Park.
Within Victoria, the passing of theCountry Roads Act of 1912[6] 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.Beulah-Birchip-Wycheproof Road was declared a Main Road fromBallapur toBirchip (and continuing westwards from Ballapur toBeulah, and eastwards toWycheproof) on 14 December 1914;[1]St Arnaud-(Donald-)Birchip Road was declared a Main Road, betweenDonald and Birchip on 28 May 1915,[7] and betweenSt Arnaud and Donald on 20 September 1915;[8]Ballarat-(Lexton-)(Avoca-)St Arnaud Road was declared a Main Road, betweenAddington throughLexton andAvoca toRedbank on 31 May 1915,[9] and from north-westernBallarat to Addington and from Redbank to St Arnaud on 20 September 1915.[8]
The passing of theHighways and Vehicles Act of 1924[10] provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board.North-Western Highway (not to be confused byCalder Highway, which was also known as North-Western Highway in the late 1920s) was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year,[2] fromBallarat viaAvoca,St Arnaud, andDonald toBirchip (for a total of 138 miles), subsuming the original declarations of Ballarat-Lexton-Avoca-St Arnaud Road and St Arnaud-Donald-Birchip Road as Main Roads. In the 1959/60 financial year, another section from Birchip viaWoomelang toLascelles was added,[11] subsuming the original declaration of Beulah-Birchip-Wycheproof between Ballapur and Birchip as a Main Road, along the formerKinnabulla-Woomelang Road andWoomelang-Lascelles Roads.[11] The name of the highway was later changed toSunraysia Highway on 11 September 1972, and extended from Lascelles to the intersection withCalder Highway in Nunga, southernOuyen, subsuming the former portion ofHenty Highway between Lascelles and Nunga.[12]
Sunraysia Highway was signed as State Route 121 between Ouyen and Ballarat in 1986;[13] with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, it was replaced by route B220.
The passing of theRoad Management Act 2004[14] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads toVicRoads: in 2013, VicRoads re-declared the road as Sunraysia Highway (Arterial #6700) betweenCalder Highway inOuyen andWestern Freeway atMitchell Park in north-westernBallarat.[5]
| LGA | Location[3][5] | km[3] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Mildura | Ouyen | 0.0 | 0.0 | Calder Highway (A79) – Mildura,Bendigo | Northern terminus of highway and route B220 |
| Yarriambiack | Speed | 28.1 | 17.5 |  Patchewollock–Sea Lake Road (C248) – Patchewollock,Ninda | |
| Lascelles | 54.9 | 34.1 | Mildura railway line | ||
| 55.9 | 34.7 |  Henty Highway (B200) – Warracknabeal | |||
| Woomelang | 68.7 | 42.7 |  Hopetoun–Sea Lake Road (C246) – Hopetoun,Sea Lake | ||
| 68.8 | 42.8 | Mildura railway line | |||
| 69.5 | 43.2 | ||||
| Buloke | Ballapur | 107.0 | 66.5 |  Birchip–Rainbow Road (C243) – Rainbow | |
| Birchip | 118.3 | 73.5 |  Birchip–Sea Lake Road (C244 north) – Sea Lake Birchip–Wycheproof Road (C268 east) – Wycheproof | ||
| Morton Plains | 128.0 | 79.5 |  Warracknabeal–Birchip (C242) – Warracknabeal | ||
| Massey | 147.7 | 91.8 | Mildura railway line | ||
| Litchfield | 156.1 | 97.0 |  Borung Highway (C234 west) – Warracknabeal | ||
| Donald | 164.4 | 102.2 | Mildura railway line | ||
| 170.5 | 105.9 |  Donald–Stawell Road (C238) – Marnoo,Stawell | |||
| 171.2 | 106.4 |  Borung Highway (C261 east) – Charlton,Swan Hill | |||
| 172.9 | 107.4 | Mildura railway line | |||
| Northern Grampians | St Arnaud | 186.2 | 115.7 | ||
| 209.2 | 130.0 |  St Arnaud–Wycheproof Road (C271 northwest) – Wycheproof Charlton–Wycheproof Road (C272 northeast) – Charlton | |||
| 209.8 | 130.4 |  Inkerman Street (B240) – Marnoo,Horsham | Concurrency with route B240 | ||
| 210.6 | 130.9 | Inglewood Road (B240) – Tarnagulla,Marong,Bendigo | |||
| Moyreisk | 242.5 | 150.7 |  Maryborough–St Arnaud Road (C275) – Maryborough | ||
| Pyrenees | Tanwood | 258.8 | 160.8 |  Stawell–Avoca Road (C221) – Stawell,Navarre | |
| Avoca River | 268.3 | 166.7 | Vale Bridge | ||
| Pyrenees | Avoca | 270.4 | 168.0 | Avoca railway line | |
| 271.4 | 168.6 |  Pyrenees Highway (B180) – Maryborough,Castlemaine,Ararat | |||
| Lexton | 294.6 | 183.1 |  Lexton–Talbot Road (C172 east) – Talbot Beaufort–Lexton Road (C172 west) – Beaufort | ||
| Ballarat | Mitchell Park–Miners Rest boundary | 330.2 | 205.2 | Western Freeway (M8) – Horsham,Ararat,Bacchus Marsh,Melbourne | Southern terminus of highway and route B220 at trumpet interchange |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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