Moorooduc Highway

Moorooduc Highway
Length	19 km (12 mi)
Direction	North-South
From	Frankston Freeway, Frankston, Melbourne
via	Frankston South, Baxter, Moorooduc
To	Mornington Peninsula Freeway, Mount Martha, Victoria
Allocation	Davey-Hastings Road - Frankston-Flinders Road: (duplex with )
Major junctions	Cranbourne-Frankston Road Frankston-Flinders Road for full list see major intersections

See also: Frankston Freeway and Mornington Peninsula Freeway

The Moorooduc Highway is a 19 km highway which runs from Frankston to Mount Martha. It is a dual carriageway with two or three lanes each way and, together with the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, is a main arterial road from Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula.

History

It originally started at the intersection with Frankston-Flinders Road in Frankston South and joined the Nepean Highway in Moorooduc South. In the 1970s it was duplicated to just south of Sages Road and during the 1980s the rest of the road was duplicated, this was to serve as an alternative to building the Frankston Bypass. During the 1990s the Mornington Peninsula Freeway was linked to the (renamed) Moorooduc Highway.

Route

The Moorooduc Highway acts as a non-freeway link between the northern and southern sections of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway and begins at the southern end of the Frankston Freeway (which links to the northern section of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway). It passes along the east side of the Frankston commercial centre, and is a three lane dual carriageway with grade intersections and traffic lights to Frankston Flinders Road. There, the road narrows and loses a lane each way. The road passes the town of Mornington which is just off the highway. The highway ends at the northern end of the second section of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway. It is a notoriously dangerous stretch of road that has claimed many lives due to speed and uncontrolled intersections. Roundabouts have recently been installed at the Bentons Road, Eramosa Road and Bungower Road intersections. The Sages Road intersection is now controlled by traffic lights after numerous fatal and serious accidents at this high speed T-Intersection. Heading southbound the highway speed limit reaches 100 km/h from Sumner Road in Baxter.

Frankston Bypass

In the future the highway may be made obsolete by the construction of the Mornington Peninsula freeway which will bypass the arguably congested roundabout intersections near Mornington as well as the intersections of Frankston. See Peninsula Link for details.

Major intersections

Moorooduc Highway
Northbound	Distance to Melbourne (km)	Distance to Portsea (km)	Southbound
End Moorooduc Highway continues as Frankston Freeway to Melbourne	--	--	Start Moorooduc Highway from Frankston Freeway
Frankston, Cranbourne Cranbourne-Frankston Road Traffic to Cranbourne must turn left to Frankston then U-turn at Clarendon Street[1]			Cranbourne, Frankston Cranbourne-Frankston Road
STONY POINT RAIL LINE	--	--	STONY POINT RAIL LINE
Frankston Davey-Hastings Road	--	--	Frankston Davey-Hastings Road
Golf Links Road	--	--	Golf Links Road
Robinsons Road	--	--	Robinsons Road
Baxter Frankston-Flinders Road	--	--	Baxter, Hastings Frankston-Flinders Road
Baxter, Tooradin Sages Road	--	--	Baxter, Tooradin Sages Road
Somerville, Pearcedale Eramosa Road West	--	--	Somerville Eramosa Road West
Mount Eliza Wooralla Drive	--	--	Mount Eliza Wooralla Drive
Bungower Road	--	--	Bungower Road
Mornington, Tyabb Mornington-Tyabb Road _	--	--	Tyabb, Mornington Mornington-Tyabb Road _
Moorooduc Bentons Road	--	--	Moorooduc Bentons Road
Mount Martha Craigie Road	--	--	Mount Martha Craigie Road
Balnarring, Somers Old Moorooduc Road _	--	--	Balnarring, Somers Old Moorooduc Road _
Start Moorooduc Highway from Mornington Peninsula Freeway			End Moorooduc Highway continues as Mornington Peninsula Freeway to Flinders / Portsea

See also

• List of Melbourne highways

References

1. ^ New P-turn at Moorooduc Highway / Cranbourne-Frankston Road, Frankston VicRoads. Retrieved on 30 August 2009.