Canterbury Road, Melbourne

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Canterbury Road

Victoria
Canterbury Road, Heathmont.jpg
Canterbury Road, Heathmont
Canterbury Road, Melbourne is located in Melbourne
West end
West end
East end
East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeRoad
Length25.8 km (16 mi)[1]
Route number(s) State Route 32 (1965-present)
Major junctions
West endRathmines Road
Camberwell, Melbourne
 
East end Mount Dandenong Road
Montrose, Melbourne
Location(s)
LGA(s)
Major suburbsCanterbury, Surrey Hills, Vermont, Heathmont

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-carraigeway road. It continues east through Forest Hills 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 Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) declared the western section of Canterbury Road, between Burke Road in Camberwell and Warrigal Road in Surrey Hills as a Main Road in the 1959/60 financial year.[2] 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.[3]

Canterbury Road was signed as State 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[4] 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.[5]

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. [6]

Major intersections[]

LGALocation[1][5]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
BoroondaraCamberwell0.00.0Rathmines Road (west) – Hawthorn EastWestern terminus of road
Burke Road (State Route 17 south, State Route 17/32 north) – Heidelberg, Caulfield EastState Route 32 continues north along Burke Road
Canterbury1.91.2Balwyn Road – Balwyn North
Surrey Hills3.52.2Union Road – Balwyn
Boroondara–Whitehorse border3.72.3 Warrigal Road (State Route 15) – Surrey Hills, Mentone
WhitehorseSurrey Hills–Box Hill–Box Hill South tripoint4.83.0Elgar Road – Doncaster
Box Hill–Box Hill South5.63.5 Station Street (State Route 47) – Doncaster, Huntingdale
Box Hill–Box Hill South–Blackburn–Blackburn South quadripoint7.04.3 Middleborough Road (State Route 23) – Doncaster, Mount Waverley
Blackburn–Blackburn South border8.75.4 Blackburn Road (State Route 13) – Blackburn, Clayton
Forest Hill10.16.3 Springvale Road (State Route 40) – Nunawading, Glen Waverley
Vermont12.27.6 Mitcham Road (State Route 36 north) – Mitcham
Boronia Road (State Route 36 south) – Boronia
Whitehorse–Maroondah borderRingwood14.28.8 EastLink (M3) – Clifton Hill, Dandenong
Maroondah15.19.4 Wantirna Road (State Route 9) – Ringwood, Wantirna
Bayswater North19.512.1 Bayswater Road (State Route 7) – Croydon, Bayswater
21.213.2 Dorset Road (State Route 5) – Croydon, Ferntree Gully
Yarra RangesMontrose25.816.0 Mount Dandenong Road (State Route 62 west) – City
Mount Dandenong Road (C401/C415 northeast) – Lilydale, Mount DandenongEastern terminus of road and State Route 32
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •       Route transition

See also[]

Australia road sign W5-29.svg Australian Roads portal

Notes and references[]

  1. ^ a b c Google. "Canterbury Road" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 765. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Canterbury Road, Bayswater North". www.vicroads.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 24 August 2014.


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