Burke Road

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Burke Road

Victoria
Camberwell.JPG
Burke Road, looking north from Camberwell Junction
Burke Road is located in Melbourne
North end
North end
South end
South end
Coordinates
General information
TypeRoad
Length12.3 km (7.6 mi)[1]
Route number(s)
  • State Route 17 (1965-present)
    Entire route
  • Concurrencies:
  • State Route 32 (1965-present)
    (through Hawthorn East)
Major junctions
North end Lower Heidelberg Road
Ivanhoe East, Melbourne
 
South end Princes Highway
Caulfield East, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbsKew East, Camberwell, Glen Iris, Malvern East

Burke Road is a major north–south thoroughfare in Melbourne, Australia. It runs from Ivanhoe East to Caulfield East and through the major shopping district at Camberwell.

It is aligned with the western boundary of Elgar's Special Survey,[2] and does not conform to the 1 mile (1.6 km) interval cadastral survey grid for Melbourne.

Route[]

Burke Road starts at the intersection with Lower Heidelberg and Maltravers Roads, heading south as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road through Ivanhoe East until crossing over the Yarra River, where it widens to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, crosses the Eastern Freeway, and continues south until it reaches the intersection with High Street, Kilby and Doncaster Roads, where it narrows to a four-lane single-carriageway road. It continues south through Balwyn, over the Lilydale railway line and through Camberwell Junction at Camberwell, crossing the Monash Freeway and Glen Waverley railway line at Glen Iris, eventually to terminate at Princes Highway in Caulfield East, just outside Monash University's Caulfield campus.

Tram route 72 runs along the road between Whitehorse Road in Deepdene, and Malvern Road in Glen Iris.

History[]

Burke Road was originally known as Boundary, West Boundary or New Cross Road.[3]

The Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) declared Burke Road a Main Road in June 1983,[4] from Main Heidelberg-Eltham Road (Lower Heidelberg Road) at Ivanhoe East to Gardiners Creek at Glen Iris.

Burke Road was signed as State Route 17 between Ivanhoe East and Caulfield East in 1965. State Route 17 continues south, with a brief concurrency along Princes Highway, via Grange Road eventually to Moorabbin.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[5] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Burke Road (Arterial #5874), beginning at Main Heidelberg-Eltham Road (Lower Heidelberg Road) at Ivanhoe East and ending at Princes Highway in Caulfield East.[6]

See also[]

Australia road sign W5-29.svg Australian Roads portal

Notes and references[]

  1. ^ Google (1 November 2021). "Burke Road" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  2. ^ Lay, Maxwell (2003), Melbourne Miles: The Story of Melbourne's Roads, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, ISBN 1-74097-019-5
  3. ^ National Trust of Australia - Victoria. ""Burke Road and Camberwell Junction - Historic Area"". National Trust. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 30 June 1983. p. 1976. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  5. ^ State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  6. ^ VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 832. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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