Dandenong Valley Highway

Dandenong Valley Highway
Heatherton Road and Stud Road, Dandenong
Length	30 km (19 mi)
Direction	North-South
From	Mountain Highway, Bayswater, Melbourne
via	Scoresby, Rowville, Dandenong, Carrum Downs
To	Nepean Highway, Frankston, Melbourne
Allocation	Boronia Road-Nepean Highway:
Major junctions	Monash Freeway Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) Frankston Freeway for full list see major intersections

The Dandenong Valley Highway (also predominantly known as Stud Road and Dandenong Frankston Road) stretches almost 30 kilometres from Wantirna South in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. For its entire length, its main name is not actually Dandenong Valley Highway, and very few locals use it. 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.

Route

Dandenong Valley Highway begins at its junction with the Nepean Highway, in central Frankston. It heads as a two-lane, two-way road alongside the Frankston railway line to the Frankston Freeway. It then roughly heads north east as a four lane dual carriageway to Dandenong, the centre of which the road runs through as a four lane single carriageway. After Dandenong, the road again becomes a four lane dual carriageway, heading north, through Rowville, Scoresby and Knox Shopping Centre in Wantirna South. At Boronia Road in Wantirna, the road narrows down to one lane, before eventually terminating at Mountain Highway, in Bayswater.

Otherwise known as

There are a variety of street names which exceed the Dandenong Valley Highway status which includes:

• Stud Road (from Bayswater to Dandenong)
• Foster Street (within central Dandenong)
• Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) (within central Dandenong)
• Dandenong-Frankston Road (from Dandenong to Frankston North)
• Dandenong Road West (from Frankston North to Frankston)
• Fletcher Road (within central Frankston)

Major intersections

Dandenong Valley Highway
Northbound	Distance from Dandenong (km)	Southbound
Traffic Lights (clockwise from highway) Mountain Highway to Wantirna Waldhem Road Mountain Highway to Bayswater
End Stud Road (Dandenong Valley Highway)	--	Start Stud Road (Dandenong Valley Highway)
Wantirna, Ringwood Boronia Road Boronia Boronia Road	--	Boronia Boronia Road Wantirna Boronia Road
		continues as
Wantirna South (Knox City)	--	Wantirna South (Knox City)
To ; Melbourne, Ferntree Gully, Belgrave Burwood Highway	--	Ferntree Gully, Belgrave, Burwood, Melbourne; To Burwood Highway
To ; Glen Waverley, Wantirna South High Street Road	--	Ferntree Gully, Glen Waverley; To High Street Road
Scoresby	--	Scoresby
To ; Oakleigh, Ferntree Gully Ferntree Gully Road		Ferntree Gully, Oakleigh; To Ferntree Gully Road
Ferntree Gully Kelletts Road	--	Lysterfield Kelletts Road
Rowville	--	Rowville
To ; Mulgrave, Oakleigh Wellington Road Lysterfield, Emerald Wellington Road	--	Lysterfield, Emerald Wellington Road To ; Mulgrave, Oakleigh Wellington Road
Endeavour Hills Bergins Road	--	Endeavour Hills, Doveton Bergins Road
Brady Road	--	Brady Road
Warragul, Traralgon Monash Freeway	--	Warragul, Traralgon Monash Freeway
Chadstone, Melbourne Monash Freeway _		Chadstone, Melbourne Monash Freeway _
Noble Park, Endeavour Hills Heatherton Road	--	Endeavour Hills, Noble Park Heatherton Road
David Street	--	David Street
Dandenong, Doveton Clow Street	--	Doveton, Dandenong Clow Street
continues as Stud Road	--	continues as Foster Street
Dandenong	0.0	Dandenong
continues as Foster Street	--	End Foster Street
Traffic Lights (clockwise from Dandenong) Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) to Berwick and Frankston Foster Street (Cheltenham Road) to Keysborough and Mentone Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) to Oakleigh and Melbourne
	--	duplexes with Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway)
Webster Street	--	Webster Street
duplexes with Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway)	--
Traffic Lights (clockwise from Frankston) Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) to Dandenong and Rowville Lonsdale Street (Princes Highway) to Berwick and Warragul
End Dandenong-Frankston Road	--	continues as Dandenong-Frankston Road
GIPPSLAND RAIL LINE	--	GIPPSLAND RAIL LINE
To ; Keysborough, Berwick Dandenong Bypass	--	Cranbourne, Keysborough; To Dandenong Bypass
To ; Mordialloc, Narre Warren Greens Road	--	Narre Warren, Mordialloc; To Greens Road
Abbotts Road	--	Abbotts Road
To ; Carrum, Keysborough; Cranbourne, Berwick Thompsons Road	--	Cranbourne, Patterson Lakes, Carrum; To Thompsons Road
To Lathams Road Carrum Downs, Cranbourne Hall Road	--	Carrum Downs Hall Road To Lathams Road
Seaford Seaford Road Skye Ballarto Road	--	Skye Ballarto Road Seaford Seaford Road
Flinders, Portsea Peninsula Link _ Under Construction	--	Flinders, Portsea Peninsula Link _ Under Construction
To ; Mordialloc, Melbourne Peninsula Link ___ _ Under Construction		To ; Mordialloc, Melbourne Peninsula Link ___ _ Under Construction
Flinders, Portsea Frankston Freeway via Skye Road	--	Flinders, Portsea Frankston Freeway via Skye Road
To ; Mordialloc, Melbourne Frankston Freeway _		To ; Melbourne Frankston Freeway _
continues as Dandenong-Frankston Road	--	End Dandenong-Frankston Road
Traffic Lights and Railway Crossing (clockwise from Frankston Freeway) Skye Road Dandenong Road East FRANKSTON RAIL LEVEL CROSSING Dandenong Road (Dandenong Valley Highway) to Frankston Overton Road to Nepean Highway Wells Road to Seaford
End Dandenong Road	--	continues as Dandenong Road
continues as Dandenong Road	--	Young Street
Young Street		continues as Fletcher Road
Roundabout (clockwise from Dandenong Road) Fletcher Road to Cranbourne and Flinders Bayside Shopping Centre Car Park Fletcher Road to Nepean Highway
Start Fletcher Road (Dandenong Valley Highway)	--	End Fletcher Road (Dandenong Valley Highway)
Traffic Lights (clockwise from highway) Nepean Highway to Mornington and Portsea Nepean Highway to Mordialloc and Melbourne