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
General information
TypeHighway
Length30 km (19 mi)
Route number(s) State Route 9 (Boronia Road – Nepean Highway)
Major junctions
North end Mountain Highway (State Route 28), Bayswater, Melbourne
 
South end Nepean Highway (State Route 3), Frankston, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbsScoresby, Rowville, Dandenong, Carrum Downs
Highway system

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
LGALocation[1]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
KnoxBayswater00.0 Mountain Highway (State Route 28) – Wantirna, BayswaterAlso known as Stud Road
Wantirna1.10.68 Boronia Road (State Route 36) – Wantirna, Ringwood, Boronia
Wantirna South3.01.9 Burwood Highway (State Route 26) – Melbourne, Ferntree Gully, Belgrave
4.02.5 High Street Road (State Route 24) – Glen Waverley, Wantirna South
Scoresby6.44.0 Ferntree Gully Road (State Route 22) – Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully
Rowville7.84.8Kelletts Road – Ferntree Gully
9.86.1 Wellington Road (State Route 18) – Mulgrave, Oakleigh / – Lysterfield, Emerald
9.96.2Bergins Road – Endeavour Hills, Doveton
Greater DandenongDandenong North12.98.0Brady Road
13.48.3 Monash Freeway (M1) – Warragul, Traralgon, Chadstone, Melbourne
Dandenong14.69.1 Heatherton Road (State Route 14) – Noble Park, Endeavour Hills
15.49.6David Street
16.310.1Clow Street – Dandenong, DovetonStud Street north of here, Foster Street south of here
17.010.6 Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) (State Route 9) – Berwick, Frankston, Oakleigh, Melbourne / Foster Street (Cheltenham Road) (State Route 10) – Keysborough, MentoneDuplex with Lonsdale Street
17.310.7Webster Street
17.811.1 Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) (A1) – Berwick, Warragulduplex with Lonsdale Street north of here; Dandenong-Frankston Road south
18.111.2Gippsland railway line
Dandenong South18.711.6 Dandenong Bypass (State Route 49) – Cranbourne, Keysborough, Berwick
19.812.3 Greens Road (State Route 12) – Mordialloc, Narre Warren
21.813.5Abbotts Road
FrankstonCarrum Downs26.616.5 Thompsons Road (State Route 6) – Carrum, Keysborough, Cranbourne, Berwick
30.218.8Lathams Road / Hall Road – Carrum Downs, Cranbourne
31.719.7 Peninsula Link (M11) – Portsea, Melbourne, Springvale
Frankston North32.320.1Seaford Road – Seaford / Ballarto Road – Skye
Seaford35.021.7Frankston Freeway (M3) – Hastings, Melbourne
35.221.9Skye Road / Overton RoadFrankston railway line
Frankston36.422.6Young StreetDandenong Road north of here; Fletcher Road west
36.622.7Bayside Shopping Centre car park
36.822.9 Nepean Highway (State Route 3) – Mornington, Portsea, Mordialloc, Melbourne
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also

 Australian Roads portal

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