Eastern Highway

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Eastern Highway Alexandra Parade Victoria
General information
Type	Highway
Length	1.2 km (0.7 mi)[1]
Route number(s)	State Route 83 (1989-present) Entire route Concurrencies: State Route 46 (1965-present) (through Fitzroy North)
Major junctions
West end	Nicholson Street Fitzroy, Melbourne
	Brunswick Street Queens Parade
East end	Eastern Freeway Collingwood, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbs	Collingwood, Fitzroy
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria

Eastern Highway is a 1.2 kilometre highway in inner northern Melbourne, Australia, that ultimately acts as a feeder road into the Eastern Freeway. This name however is not widely known to most drivers, as the allocation is still best known by the name of its sole constituent part: Alexandra Parade.

Route[]

Alexandra Parade begins at the intersection with Nicholson Street and Princes Streets in Fitzroy along a wide dual-carriageway alignment, varying between eight and ten lanes, heading east across Brunswick Street, before terminating shortly after at Gold Street in Collingwood: the skewed alignment into the Eastern Freeway continues east beyond, along with ramps for access to/from Hoddle Street 350m further east.

History[]

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924^[2] through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads). The Eastern Highway was declared a State Highway in October 1977,^[3] along Alexandra Parade from Nicholson Street in Fitzroy to Gold Street in Collingwood, but was still referenced on local signage as Alexandra Parade.

Alexandra Parade previously extended a short distance east beyond Hoddle Street, under the Whittlesea railway line to end at Dights Falls on the Yarra River: with the opening of the first stage of the Eastern Freeway in December 1977, Alexandra Parade was truncated back to Gold Street. A vestigial alignment partially survives as Alexandra Parade East,^[4] running parallel to the eastbound entry ramp.

Alexandra Parade was signed as State Route 83 between Fitzroy and Collingwood in 1989; it previously continued east along Eastern Freeway until it was replaced by route M3 when EastLink opened in 2008. State Route 46 runs concurrent along Alexandra Parade, between Nicholson Street and Queens Parade through Fitzroy North, signed from 1965.

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 Eastern Highway (Arterial #6830) between Nicholson and Gold Streets.^[6] The road is still presently known (and signposted) as Alexandra Parade along its entire length.

See also[]

 Australian Roads portal

• List of Melbourne highways

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