Canterbury Road, Melbourne
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- 37°49′17″S 145°03′31″E / 37.821389°S 145.058589°E / -37.821389; 145.058589 (West end)
- 37°48′44″S 145°20′13″E / 37.812099°S 145.336883°E / -37.812099; 145.336883 (East end)
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Camberwell, Melbourne
Burke Road
Warrigal Road
Middleborough Road
Springvale Road
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Montrose, Melbourne
Canterbury Road is a major arterial road through eastern Melbourne, linking the inner eastern suburbs to the outer eastern fringe at the western foot of the Dandenong Ranges.
Route
Canterbury Road starts at the intersection with Burke and Rathmines Roads in Camberwell and runs east as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road until its intersection with Stanhope Grove, where it widens to a four-lane, single-carriageway road and continues east, underneath the Lilydale and Belgrave railway lines at Canterbury, through Surrey Hills until it reaches the intersection with Middleborough Road at the south-eastern corner of Box Hill. It widens to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road and continues east until Blackburn Road in Blackburn, where it widens further to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues east through Forest Hill and Heathmont, narrowing back to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road east of Dorset Road in Bayswater North and continuing east through Kilsyth, before eventually terminating at the intersection with Mount Dandenong Road in Montrose.
History
The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1958[3] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[4]) provided for the declaration of State Highways and Main Roads, roads partially financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads). Canterbury Road was declared a Main Road on 7 September 1960, between Burke Road in Camberwell and Warrigal Road in Surrey Hills.[2][5] Construction of a steel and reinforced concrete rail-over-road overpass bridge replacing the level crossing with the Lilydale and Belgrave railway lines in Canterbury, was completed by Victorian Railways, with the Board lowering the road surface under it and carrying out improvements to adjacent streets, in the 1969/70 financial year.[6]
Canterbury Road was signed as Metropolitan Route 32 between Camberwell and Montrose in 1965, originally heading further east along Swansea Road to Lilydale; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, the section between Montrose and Lilydale was replaced by route C401 and the route was truncated back to Montrose.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[7] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared Canterbury Road (Arterial #5802) from Burke Road in Camberwell to Mount Dandenong Road in Montrose.[8]
Canterbury Road Upgrade
In 2016, the Australian Government committed $20 million to build a third lane outbound along Canterbury Road from Dorset Road to Montrose Road and to upgrade the Montrose roundabout to a signalised intersection. In 2018, the Australian Government committed a further $24.5 million to build a third lane inbound along Canterbury Road from Liverpool Road to Dorset Road.[9]
Major intersections
LGA | Location[1][8] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Boroondara | Camberwell | 0.0 | 0.0 | Rathmines Road (west) – Hawthorn East | Western terminus of road |
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Canterbury | 1.9 | 1.2 | Balwyn Road – Balwyn North | ||
Surrey Hills | 3.5 | 2.2 | Union Road – Balwyn | ||
Boroondara–Whitehorse border | 3.7 | 2.3 | ![]() | ||
Whitehorse | Surrey Hills–Box Hill–Box Hill South tripoint | 4.8 | 3.0 | Elgar Road – Doncaster, Burwood | |
Box Hill–Box Hill South | 5.6 | 3.5 | ![]() | ||
Box Hill–Box Hill South–Blackburn–Blackburn South quadripoint | 7.0 | 4.3 | ![]() | ||
Blackburn–Blackburn South border | 8.7 | 5.4 | ![]() | ||
Forest Hill | 10.1 | 6.3 | ![]() | ||
Vermont | 12.2 | 7.6 | ![]() ![]() | ||
Maroondah | Ringwood | 14.2 | 8.8 | ![]() | |
15.1 | 9.4 | ![]() | |||
Bayswater North | 19.5 | 12.1 | ![]() | ||
21.2 | 13.2 | ![]() | |||
Yarra Ranges | Montrose | 25.8 | 16.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern terminus of road and Metro Route 32 |
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See also
Australian Roads portal
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- Alexandra Parade
- Burwood Highway
- Bell Street / Springvale Road
- Bulleen Road
- Cheltenham Road / Lower Dandenong Road
- Dandenong Bypass
- Dandenong Road / Geelong Road
- Dingley Bypass
- Greensborough Highway
- Frankston–Dandenong Road / Stud Road
- Hoddle Street / Punt Road
- Moorooduc Highway
- Ringwood Bypass
- St Georges Road
- Warrigal Road
- Yarra Bank Highway
- Airport Drive
- Ballarat Road
- Burke Road
- Boronia Road
- Canterbury Road
- Chandler Highway
- Clayton Road / Middleborough Road
- Craigieburn Road
- Donnybrook Road
- Dorset Road
- Epping Road
- Flemington Road
- Glenferrie Road
- Heidelberg Road
- Koo Wee Rup Bypass
- Maribyrnong Road
- Melton Highway
- Mickleham Road
- Mountain Highway
- Mount Alexander Road
- Pascoe Vale Road
- St Kilda Road
- Sydney Road
- Thompson Road
- Westall Road
- Yan Yean Road
- 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan
- Dingley Arterial (partially completed)
- East West Link
- Healesville Freeway
- Mornington Peninsula Freeway (southern extension)
- North East Link (under construction)
- Outer Ring Road
- West Gate Tunnel (under construction)
- West Gate Distributor
- Streets in Melbourne
- Highways in Melbourne
- VicRoads
- Transport in Melbourne
Notes and references
- ^ a b c Google. "Canterbury Road" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
- ^ a b "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 7 September 1960. pp. 2977–81. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/cra1958182.pdf State of Victoria, An Act to consolidate the Law relating to Country Roads 30 September 1958
- ^ State of Victoria, An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes 30 December 1924
- ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1960". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 21 November 1960. p. 10.
- ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Fifty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1970". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 14 January 1971. p. 30.
- ^ State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015". Government of Victoria. p. 765. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "Canterbury Road, Bayswater North". vicroads.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
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