Dandenong Valley Highway
Dandenong Valley Highway Stud Road, Foster Street, Frankston–Dandenong Road | |
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| Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 32.2 km (20 mi) |
| Gazetted | December 1918 (as Developmental Road) March 1990 (as State Highway) |
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| North end | Stud Road Wantirna South, Melbourne |
| South end | Dandenong Road West Frankston, Melbourne |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Scoresby, Rowville, Dandenong, Carrum Downs |
| Highway system | |
Dandenong Valley Highway is an urban highway stretching over 30 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 and Dandenong-Frankston Road.
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.