Dandenong Valley Highway
The Dandenong Valley Highway is an urban highway stretching almost 40 kilometres from Bayswater in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. This name covers many consecutive streets and is not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Stud Road, Foster Street, Dandenong-Frankston Road, Dandenong Road West and Fletcher Road. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completion, as well to avoid confusion between declarations.
Dandenong Valley Highway Stud Road, Foster Street, Frankston–Dandenong Road, Dandenong Road West, Fletcher Road Victoria | |
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| Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong | |
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| Type | Highway |
| Length | 37 km (23 mi) |
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| North end | Burwood Highway Wantirna South, Melbourne |
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| South end | Frankston Freeway Frankston, Melbourne |
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| Major suburbs | Scoresby, Rowville, Dandenong, Carrum Downs |
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The traffic on the highway has been significant over the years with the worst bottlenecks at Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully Road, Wellington Road, Princes Highway, and Thompsons Road, but since the opening of the EastLink, the traffic burden has significantly reduced along the highway with the north–south tollway, opening to traffic on 29 June 2008.