Hoddle Highway

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Hoddle Highway


Also known as Hoddle Street, Punt Road* and Barkly Street.*
Length	14 km
General direction	North-South
From	High Street, Clifton Hill, Melbourne
via	Collingwood, Abbotsford, Richmond, South Yarra, Prahran, Windsor, St. Kilda
To	Marine Parade, Elwood, Melbourne
Allocation	St. Kilda Junction: (duplex with )
Major Junctions	Heidelberg Road Eastern Freeway Alexandra Parade Johnston Street Victoria Parade / Victoria Street Wellington Parade / Bridge Road Swan Street CityLink Alexandra Avenue Toorak Road Commercial Road High Street Dandenong Road St. Kilda Road Fitzroy Street St. Kilda Road (Nepean Highway) Carlisle Street Glen Huntly Road

Hoddle Highway is an urban "highway" in Melbourne linking CityLink and the Eastern Freeway, allotted metropolitan route .

It starts at the Eastern Freeway entrance in Fitzroy and heads directly southwards until reaching Citylink in Richmond, near the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and continues across the Yarra River and down to the Nepean and Princes Highways, at St Kilda Junction.

This "highway" is frequently clogged with traffic, particularly during peak hour and during sport events, as it passes through busy inner Melbourne suburbs and the city's main sport and event precinct. This "highway" is also known as Hoddle Street north of Bridge Road, named after Robert Hoddle, architect of Melbourne's Hoddle Grid, and Punt Road south of Bridge Road, named after the punt used to cross the Yarra River before a bridge was built.

This continues on through the congested four laned undivided South Yarra district before heading further south into Barkly Street, through the St. Kilda city centre before terminating at Marine Parade.

Here is a run down of the few streets that exceed the Hoddle Highway status.

1 Hoddle Street
2 Hoddle Street Massacre
3 Punt Road
4 Barkly Street
5 See also

[edit] Hoddle Street

Hoddle Street looking south, with Collingwood town hall on the left

Hoddle Street is a busy arterial road in inner-eastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was named after Robert Hoddle, the surveyor who designed Melbourne's Hoddle Grid and some of its inner suburbs such as Carlton. It varies between an undivided arterial road with two lanes running each way, to a three or four lane dual carriageway.

Hoddle Street runs 3.5 km north-south from Clifton Hill to Richmond where it becomes Punt Road, continuing south through Windsor, and as Barkly Street, through St. Kilda and Elwood. North of Clifton Hill, the line of Hoddle Street continues north as High Street, through the suburbs of Northcote, Thornbury, Preston, Reservoir and Thomastown.

The majority of Hoddle Street is a wide section (3 to 4 lanes in each direction) making up a portion of the Hoddle Highway. This section connects the Eastern Freeway and Punt Road to other arterial roads that feed into the Melbourne CBD.