Dandenong Valley Highway

The Dandenong Valley Highway (also predominantly known as Stud Road and Dandenong-Frankston Road) stretches almost 30 kilometres from Wantirna South in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. For its entire length, its main name is not actually Dandenong Valley Highway, and very few locals use it. 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 the EastLink, the traffic burden has significantly reduced along the highway with the north–south tollway, opening to traffic on 29 June 2008.

Dandenong Valley Highway Victoria
Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong
North end South end
Coordinates	37.84399°S 145.248312°E / -37.84399; 145.248312 (North end) 38.13876°S 145.12344°E / -38.13876; 145.12344 (South end)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	30 km (19 mi)
Route number(s)	State Route 9 (Boronia Road – Nepean Highway)
Major junctions
North end	Mountain Highway (State Route 28), Bayswater, Melbourne
	Monash Freeway (M1) Princes Highway (Alternate National Route 1) Dandenong Bypass (State Route 49) Peninsula Link (M11) Frankston Freeway (M3)
South end	Nepean Highway (State Route 3), Frankston, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Scoresby, Rowville, Dandenong, Carrum Downs
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria

Route

Dandenong Valley Highway begins at its junction with the Nepean Highway, in central Frankston. It heads as a two-lane, two-way road alongside the Frankston railway line to the Frankston Freeway. It then roughly heads north east as a four lane dual carriageway to Dandenong, the centre of which the road runs through as a four lane single carriageway. After Dandenong, the road again becomes a four lane dual carriageway, heading north, through Rowville, Scoresby and Westfield Knox shopping centre in Wantirna South. At Boronia Road in Wantirna, the road which formerly narrowed down to one lane. now continues on in its dual-carriageway form, before eventually terminating at Mountain Highway, in Bayswater.

Otherwise known as

There are a variety of street names which exceed the Dandenong Valley Highway status which includes:

• Stud Road (from Bayswater to Dandenong)
• Foster Street (within central Dandenong)
• Princes Highway (Lonsdale Street) (within central Dandenong)
• Dandenong-Frankston Road (from Dandenong to Frankston North)
• Dandenong Road West (from Frankston North to Frankston)
• Fletcher Road (within central Frankston)

Major intersections

LGA	Location[1]	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Knox	Bayswater	0	0.0	Mountain Highway (State Route 28) – Wantirna, Bayswater	Also known as Stud Road
	Wantirna	1.1	0.68	Boronia Road (State Route 36) – Wantirna, Ringwood, Boronia
	Wantirna South	3.0	1.9	Burwood Highway (State Route 26) – Melbourne, Ferntree Gully, Belgrave
		4.0	2.5	High Street Road (State Route 24) – Glen Waverley, Wantirna South
	Scoresby	6.4	4.0	Ferntree Gully Road (State Route 22) – Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully
	Rowville	7.8	4.8	Kelletts Road – Ferntree Gully
		9.8	6.1	Wellington Road (State Route 18) – Mulgrave, Oakleigh / – Lysterfield, Emerald
		9.9	6.2	Bergins Road – Endeavour Hills, Doveton
Greater Dandenong	Dandenong North	12.9	8.0	Brady Road
		13.4	8.3	Monash Freeway (M1) – Warragul, Traralgon, Chadstone, Melbourne
	Dandenong	14.6	9.1	Heatherton Road (State Route 14) – Noble Park, Endeavour Hills
		15.4	9.6	David Street
		16.3	10.1	Clow Street – Dandenong, Doveton	Stud Street north of here, Foster Street south of here
		17.0	10.6	Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) (State Route 9) – Berwick, Frankston, Oakleigh, Melbourne / Foster Street (Cheltenham Road) (State Route 10) – Keysborough, Mentone	Duplex with Lonsdale Street
		17.3	10.7	Webster Street
		17.8	11.1	Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) (A1) – Berwick, Warragul	duplex with Lonsdale Street north of here; Dandenong-Frankston Road south
		18.1	11.2	Gippsland railway line
	Dandenong South	18.7	11.6	Dandenong Bypass (State Route 49) – Cranbourne, Keysborough, Berwick
		19.8	12.3	Greens Road (State Route 12) – Mordialloc, Narre Warren
		21.8	13.5	Abbotts Road
Frankston	Carrum Downs	26.6	16.5	Thompsons Road (State Route 6) – Carrum, Keysborough, Cranbourne, Berwick
		30.2	18.8	Lathams Road / Hall Road – Carrum Downs, Cranbourne
		31.7	19.7	Peninsula Link (M11) – Portsea, Melbourne, Springvale
	Frankston North	32.3	20.1	Seaford Road – Seaford / Ballarto Road – Skye
	Seaford	35.0	21.7	Frankston Freeway (M3) – Hastings, Melbourne
		35.2	21.9	Skye Road / Overton Road	Frankston railway line
	Frankston	36.4	22.6	Young Street	Dandenong Road north of here; Fletcher Road west
		36.6	22.7	Bayside Shopping Centre car park
		36.8	22.9	Nepean Highway (State Route 3) – Mornington, Portsea, Mordialloc, Melbourne
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

 Australian Roads portal

References

1. Google (13 February 2017). "Dandenong Valley Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 13 February 2017.