Route 40, Melbourne

State (Bell/Springvale) Highway
Formerly along Springvale Road
Length	57 km (35 mi)
Direction	West-South
From	Tullamarine Freeway, Strathmore, Melbourne
via	Coburg, Heidelberg, Doncaster, Nunawading, Glen Waverley, Springvale
To	Nepean Highway, Edithvale, Melbourne
Allocation	Heidelberg - Bulleen: (duplex with ) Templestowe Lower - Doncaster: (duplex with ) Doncaster - Donvale: (duplex with )
Major junctions	Sydney Road Rosanna Road Eastern Freeway / EastLink Whitehorse Road Burwood Highway Monash Freeway Princes Highway Westall Road Mornington Peninsula Freeway for full list see major intersections

Route 40, or the Bell / Springvale State Highway is the longest urban highway in Melbourne (other than the Princes Highway) linking Tullamarine Freeway and the Nepean Highway, allotted metropolitan route .

The highway experiences considerable congestion. Throughout the 1980s and '90s, the Doncaster Road section carried around 50,000 vehicles per hour at peak, this number dropped in 1997 after the extension of the Eastern Freeway.

Several level crossings are located along the highway, in Edithvale, Springvale, Preston and Coburg. With the completion of works in January 2010 to lower the rail line in Nunawading, plus an older one in Heidelberg, there are now two rail-road grade separations along the route.^[1]

The road itself varies in capacity over its length between three-laned dual carriageways and two-way single carriageways. Many junctions such as the Nepean Highway, Princes Highway, Monash Freeway, Eastern Freeway, Hume Highway and Tullamarine Freeway contribute to traffic volumes along Route 40.

Alternate names

There are a variety of street names along the route, many of which are familiar to motorists and used on radio traffic updates, including:

• Bell Street (from Strathmore to Heidelberg)
• Banksia Street (within Heidelberg)
• Manningham Road (from Bulleen to Doncaster)
• Williamsons Road (within central Doncaster)
• Doncaster Road (from Doncaster to Donvale)
• Mitcham Road (within Donvale)
• Springvale Road (from Donvale to Chelsea Heights)
• Edithvale Road (formerly Springvale Road) (from Chelsea Heights to Edithvale)

The original 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan showed the F4 Freeway following the Tullamarine Freeway, Bell and Banksia Streets, to Williamsons Road then joining the F7 Freeway heading south along the Middleborough Road and the Blackburn Road corridor to the F2 Freeway (Dingley Freeway section) between Clayton and Westall Roads (rather than Springvale Road).

Major intersections and suburbs

Bell/Springvale Highway
Westbound	Distance from Tullamarine Freeway (km)	Eastbound
End Bell Street continues as Tullamarine Freeway to Bendigo	0.0	Start Bell Street from Tullamarine Freeway
UPFIELD RAIL LINE	2.9	UPFIELD RAIL LINE
Coburg	3.1	Coburg
Brunswick, Parkville Sydney Road		Campbellfield, Craigieburn Sydney Road
Melbourne Nicholson Street	4.2	Melbourne Nicholson Street
Melbourne, Reservoir, Epping St Georges Road	5.9	Reservoir, Epping, Melbourne St Georges Road
EPPING RAIL LINE	6.1	EPPING RAIL LINE
Clifton Hill, Preston High Street	6.4	Preston, Clifton Hill High Street
Clifton Hill, Bundoora Plenty Road	6.7	Bundoora, Whittlesea, Clifton Hill Plenty Road
Fairfield, Reservoir Albert Street	8.1	Reservoir, Fairfield Albert Street
Ivanhoe, Bundoora Waterdale Road	10.3	Bundoora, Ivanhoe Waterdale Road
continues as Bell Street	11.1	Heidelberg Burgundy Street Rosanna, Ivanhoe Upper Heidelberg Road
		continues as Banksia Street
HURSTBRIDGE RAIL LINE	11.7	HURSTBRIDGE RAIL LINE
continues as	12.6	Greensborough Lower Heidelberg Road
Heidelberg, Greensborough, To Ring Road Lower Heidelberg Road		Greensborough, Camberwell; Melbourne via Freeway Lower Heidelberg Road
Melbourne via Freeway; Ivanhoe Lower Heidelberg Road		duplexes with
YARRA RIVER	13.3	YARRA RIVER
continues as Banksia Street	13.6	Templestowe, Warrandyte Bridge Street
		continues as Manningham Road
Melbourne via Freeway; Bulleen, Templestowe Bulleen Road	14.0	Ringwood, Frankston via Freeway; Templestowe, Bulleen Bulleen Road
Melbourne via Freeway; Bulleen, Templestowe Thompsons Road	15.8	Templestowe, Bulleen, Thompsons Road
Melbourne via Freeway, Templestowe High Street	17.1	Templestowe, To Freeway High Street
continues as Manningham Road	18.2	Templestowe, Eltham Williamsons Road
Templestowe, Eltham Williamsons Road		continues as Williamsons Road
continues as Williamsons Road	19.0	Doncaster
		End Williamsons Road
Traffic Lights (clockwise from Williamsons Road) Doncaster Road to Donvale and Mitcham Tram Road to Box Hill and Ringwood via Freeway Doncaster Road to Kew and Melbourne via Freeway
Westbound	Distance from Williamsons Road (km)	Eastbound
Doncaster	0.0	continues as Doncaster Road
Melbourne via Freeway; Mount Waverley Wetherby Road Victoria Street	1.7	Victoria Street Mount Waverley, Clayton; To Freeway Wetherby Road
Blackburn, Warrandyte Blackburn Road	3.3	Warrandyte, Blackburn Blackburn Road
continues as Doncaster Road	4.3	continues as Mitcham Road
continues as Mitcham Road	5.1	Donvale
Traffic Lights (clockwise from Mitcham Road) Springvale Road to Templestowe and Warrandyte Mitcham Road to Mitcham and Boronia Springvale Road to Nunawading and Glen Waverley
Northbound	Distance from Freeway (km)	Southbound
Donvale	0.8	continues as Springvale Road
Ringwood, Dandenong, Frankston EastLink _	0.0	Ringwood, Dandenong, Frankston EastLink _
Melbourne Eastern Freeway _		Melbourne Eastern Freeway _
Box Hill, Ringwood Whitehorse Road	1.6	Ringwood, Box Hill Whitehorse Road
LILYDALE RAIL LINE	1.7	LILYDALE RAIL LINE
Forest Hill, Vermont; To Canterbury Road	3.4	To ; Vermont, Forest Hill Canterbury Road
Burwood, Ferntree Gully, Belgrave; To Burwood Highway	5.7	To ; Belgrave, Burwood Burwood Highway
Highbury Road	6.5	Highbury Road
Ashburton, Wantirna South; To High Street Road	7.9	To ; Wantirna South, Boronia, Ashburton High Street Road
	8.6	Glen Waverley
Northbound	Distance from Freeway (km)	Southbound
Glen Waverley	3.1
Chadstone, Wheelers Hill Waverley Road	2.2	Wheelers Hill, Chadstone Waverley Road
Melbourne via Freeway ; Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully; To Ferntree Gully Road	0.5	To ;_Ferntree_Gully,_Oakleigh;_Melbourne_via_; Ferntree Gully, Oakleigh; Melbourne via Freeway Ferntree Gully Road
	0.0	Dandenong, Warragul; Frankston via EastLink Monash Freeway
Northbound	Distance from Freeway (km)	Southbound
Dandenong, Warragul Monash Freeway	13.4
Oakleigh, Rowville; To / Wellington Road	12.2	To / ; Rowville, Oakleigh Wellington Road
Oakleigh, Melbourne Princes Highway	10.6	SPRINGVALE JUNCTION
Clayton, Bentleigh Centre Road To Dandenong Police Road		To Police Road; Dandenong, Oakleigh Princes Highway
SPRINGVALE JUNCTION		Clayton, Bentleigh Centre Road
GIPPSLAND RAIL LINE	8.8	GIPPSLAND RAIL LINE
Moorabbin, Noble Park Heatherton Road	7.3	Noble Park, Moorabbin Heatherton Road
Dandenong; To EastLink Dingley Arterial Under construction	5.0	Dandenong; Frankston via EastLink Dingley Arterial Under construction
Blackburn, Melbourne via Westall Road		Dingley Village, Blackburn Westall Road
Keysborough, Dandenong; Ringwood via EastLink Cheltenham Road	4.1	Dandenong; Frankston via EastLink Cheltenham Road
Dingley Village, Mentone; To Melbourne Lower Dandenong Road		Mentone Lower Dandenong Road
Narre Warren; Ringwood, Melbourne via EastLink Hutton Road	1.8	Narre Warren Hutton Road
Mordialloc Governor Road		Mordialloc Governor Road
Frankston, Portsea Mornington Peninsula Freeway	0.0	Frankston, Portsea Mornington Peninsula Freeway
continues as Springvale Road	0.3	Chelsea, Patterson Lakes Wells Road To Melbourne; Mordialloc, Clayton Wells Road
Mordialloc, Clayton Wells Road Patterson Lakes Wells Road		continues as Edithvale Road
FRANKSTON RAIL LINE	2.6	FRANKSTON RAIL LINE
Start Edithvale Road		End Edithvale Road
Traffic Lights (clockwise from Edithvale Road) Nepean Highway to Frankston and Mornington Nepean Highway to Mordialloc and Melbourne

See also

• List of Melbourne highways

References

1. ^ Springvale Road Rail Separation Project. VicRoads. www.vicroads.vic.gov.au. Retrieved on 10 July 2009