Dandenong Valley Highway

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Dandenong Valley Highway
Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong
Length	30 km
General direction	North-South
From	Mountain Highway, Bayswater, Melbourne
via	Wantirna South, Scoresby, Rowville, Dandenong North, Dandenong, Dandenong South, Lyndhurst, Bangholme, Carrum Downs, Frankston North
To	Nepean Highway, Frankston, Melbourne
Allocation	Foster Street / Lonsdale Street - Frankston - Dandenong Road: (duplex with )
Major Junctions	Boronia Road Burwood Highway High Street Road Ferntree Gully Road Kelletts Road Wellington Road Monash Freeway Heatherton Road Cheltenham Road Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) Greens Road Abbotts Road Thompsons Road Ballarto Road Frankston Freeway Wells Road

The Dandenong Valley Highway (also known as Stud Road and Dandenong Frankston Road) stretches almost 30 kilometres from Wantirna 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 burden upon the road will be significantly lessened after the north-south tollway EastLink is completed in March 2008.

[edit] Route

Dandenong Valley Highway begins at its junction with the Nepean Highway, in central Frankston. It heads roughly 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, and eventually terminating at Mountain Highway, in Bayswater.

[edit] 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)
• Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) (within central Dandenong)
• Dandenong-Frankston Road (from Dandenong to Frankston North)
• Dandenong Road West (within central Frankston)
• Fletcher Road (within central Frankston)