South Road, Melbourne
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| General information | |
| Type | Road |
| Length | 8.1 km (5.0 mi)[1] |
| Route number(s) |  Metro Route 14 |
| Major junctions | |
| East end |  Dingley BypassMoorabbin, Melbourne |
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| West end |  Beach RoadBrighton, Melbourne |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Moorabbin, Bentleigh East, Bentleigh, Brighton East, Hampton, Brighton |
South Road is a major east-west arterial road in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.[2]
Route[edit]
South Road begins at the intersection of Warrigal Road and Dingley Bypass in Moorabbin and ends at Beach Road in Brighton. It travels west as a 6-lane dual carriageway with intersections at Chesterville Road, East Boundary Road, Jasper Road and Nepean Highway. It then reduces to four lanes after Nepean Highway and then intersects at Bluff Road, Hampton Street and New Street before ending at Beach Road in Brighton next to Brighton Beach railway station.
South Road Extension (2007-16)[edit]
The South Road Extension ran along the Dingley Freeway route from Warrigal Road in Moorabbin to Old Dandenong Road in Heatherton. This was designed to remove traffic from White Street, Mordialloc, as it was experiencing heavy local traffic congestion as a result of the most direct route linking the Mornington Peninsula Freeway with the Nepean Highway, along with Boundary and Wells Road.
The 1 km extension commenced construction in September 2006 and was completed by the end of 2007, at a cost of $9.3 million for the South Road extension alone, but cost $24.5 million when combined with the associated projects.
The works involved constructing a two lane road to bypass a stretch of Old Dandenong Road which travelled through a residential area to Warrigal Road. A bicycle path was also constructed along the length of the extension. The extension also involved improvements to Old Dandenong Road and surrounding intersections as well as permanently blocking access to Old Dandenong Road north of the extension. The extension has a speed limit of 70 kilometres per hour (43 mph).
Despite the road having successfully removed traffic from Old Dandenong Road (between Warrigal Road and the current South Road connection) it had also created a major bottleneck at the intersection of Kingston and Old Dandenong Road, particularly during peak hour.[citation needed]
The project was later duplicated and overwritten by the Dingley Bypass, which cut Old Dandenong Road in half in its vicinity.
Major intersections[edit]
| LGA | Location[1] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Glen Eira-Kingston boundary | Bentleigh East-Oakleigh South-Moorabbin-Heatherton Quadripoint | 0.0 | 0.0 | Dingley Bypass (Metro Routes 14/87 east) – Noble Park, Dandenong South | Eastern terminus of road, Metro Route 14 continues east along Dingley Bypass |
 Warrigal Road (Metro Route 15) – Mentone, Oakleigh | |||||
| Bentleigh East-Moorabbin boundary | 1.6 | 0.99 | Chesterville Road | ||
| 2.1 | 1.3 | East Boundary Road | |||
| Bentleigh-Moorabbin boundary | 3.6 | 2.2 |  Jasper Road (Metro Route 17) – Bentleigh, Caulfield | ||
| Glen Eira-Kingston-Bayside Tripoint | Bentleigh-Hampton East-Moorabbin-Brighton East Quadripoint | 4.0 | 2.5 |  Nepean Highway (Metro Route 3) – Mordialloc, Frankston, St Kilda, City | |
| Bayside | Hampton East-Brighton East boundary | 4.8 | 3.0 |  Bluff Road (Metro Route 19) – Brighton East, Black Rock | |
| Brighton | 6.7 | 4.2 | Hampton Street – Hampton, Sandringham, North Brighton | ||
| 7.6 | 4.7 |  New Street (Metro Route 33) – Elsternwick, Sandringham | |||
| 8.1 | 5.0 | Beach Road (Metro Route 33) – St Kilda, Sandringham | Western terminus of road and Metro Route 14 | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Google (20 October 2021). "South Road, Melbourne" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ↑ "Maps of declared roads". VicRoads. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
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