Bellarine Highway
{{Short description|Highway in Victoria, Australia}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox Australian road
| type = highway
| state = vic
| road_name = Bellarine Highway
| length = 32.5
| route = {{AUshield|VIC|B110}} B110 {{small|(1998–present)
Entire route (via McKillop Street)}}
| former = {{AUshield|S|91}} State Route 91 {{small|(1986–1998)
Entire route (via Ryrie Street)}}
| gazetted = March 1914 {{small|(as Main Road)}}{{cite web |url=https://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1914&class=general&page_num=1527&state=V&classNum=G52&id= |title=Victorian Government Gazette |date=1 April 1914 |pages=1546 |publisher=State Library of Victoria |access-date=20 June 2024 }}
1947/8 {{small|(as State Highway)}}{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286173 |title=Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1948 |newspaper=Country Roads Board of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=1 November 1948 |page=7 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}
| coordinates_a = {{coord|-38.151716|144.351874|region:AU-VIC|display=inline}}
| coordinates_b = {{coord|-38.265603|144.672427|region:AU-VIC|display=inline}}
| location = Bellarine Highway Victoria map.png
| loc_caption = Map of Bellarine Highway, south-west of Port Phillip Bay
| direction_a = West
| direction_b = East
| end_a = {{AUshield|VIC|A10|T|21}} Latrobe Terrace
{{small|Geelong, Victoria}}
| end_b = Wharf Street East
{{small|Queenscliff, Victoria}}
| exits = {{plainlist|
- {{AUshield|VIC|C129}} Grubb Road
- {{AUshield|VIC|C127}} Point Lonsdale Road}}
| through = {{VICcity|Thomson|Newcomb|Moolap|Leopold}}, {{VICcity|Wallington|Point Lonsdale}}
}}
Bellarine Highway is a main arterial highway that runs east from Geelong in Victoria along the Bellarine Peninsula to Queenscliff. The highway also provides the main route to Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove, localities along the southern coast of the peninsula.
Route
Bellarine Highway begins at the intersection of Latrobe Terrace and McKillop Street on the western edge of central Geelong. As McKillop Street, it runs east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Geelong, where it eventually intersects with and changes its name to Ormond Road, running south-east until the intersection with Boundary Road on the eastern edge of central Geelong. It then changes its name to Bellarine Highway in its own right and progressively heads south-east through Leopold. It eventually meets Grubb Road in Wallington, where it narrows to a dual-lane, single-carriageway road past Point Lonsdale. The highway eventually ends at Wharf Street East, Queenscliff, where it meets the Searoad Ferries passenger and motor vehicle ferry which operates across Port Phillip Bay to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.
History
The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912[http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/cra1912182.pdf An Act relating to Country Roads] State of Victoria, 23 December 1912 through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Geelong-Queenscliff Road from Geelong to Queenscliff was declared a Main Road on 16 March 1914.
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/hava1924204.pdf An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes] State of Victoria, 30 December 1924 provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the state government through the Country Roads Board. Bellarine Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year, from Geelong to Queenscliff (for a total of 20 miles), subsuming the original declaration of Geelong-Queenscliff Road as a Main Road. It was named after the Bellarine Peninsula.
Bellarine Highway was signed as State Route 91 between Geelong and Queenscliff in 1986;{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286932 |title=Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986 |newspaper=Road Construction Authority of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=24 November 1986 |page=42 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}} with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route B110, which continues on the other side of the bay at Sorrento to run along Point Nepean Road until Mornington. The Geelong end of the highway originally ran along Ryrie Street in the Geelong city centre, but was relocated a number of blocks south to McKillop Street to remove heavy trucks from the shopping district in October 1997.{{cite web |url=http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1997&class=general&page_num=2937&state=V&classNum=G43&id= |title=Victorian Government Gazette |date=30 October 1997 |page=2969-70 |publisher=State Library of Victoria |access-date=30 December 2021 }}
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004{{cite web |author=State Government of Victoria |title=Road Management Act 2004 |url=https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-08/04-12aa062%20authorised.pdf |publisher=Government of Victoria |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018233332/https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-08/04-12aa062%20authorised.pdf |archivedate=18 October 2021 |url-status=live |access-date=19 October 2021 }} granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2006, VicRoads re-declared the road as Bellarine Highway (Arterial #6730), beginning at Latrobe Terrace at Geelong and ending at the end of the Bellarine Peninsula in Queenscliff.{{cite web |author=VicRoads |title=VicRoads – Register of Public Roads 2024 |url=https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/-/media/files/documents/utilities/about-vr/acts-and-regulations/head-transport-for-victoria-register-of-public-roads-231031.ashx |format=PDF |publisher=Government of Victoria |pages=952 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619001303/https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/-/media/files/documents/utilities/about-vr/acts-and-regulations/head-transport-for-victoria-register-of-public-roads-231031.ashx |archivedate=19 June 2024 |url-status=live |access-date=19 June 2024 }}
Major intersections
{{AUSinttop|location_ref=|length_ref=}}
{{VICint
|LGAC=Greater Geelong
|LGAspan=4
|location=Geelong
|km=0.0
|type=trans
|road={{AUshield|VIC|A10|T|21}} Latrobe Terrace (A10/Tourist Route 21){{VICcity|p=on|Melbourne|Avalon|Colac}}
|notes=Western terminus of highway (as McKillop Street) and route B110
}}
{{VICint
|location=East Geelong
|km=2.1
|road=Ormond Street (northwest) – Central Geelong
McKillop Street (east){{VICcity|p=on|East Geelong}}
|notes=Eastbound traffic turns southeast onto Ormond Street, westbound traffic turns west onto McKillop Street
}}
{{VICint
|location_special=Thomson–Newcomb–East Geelong tripoint
|km=3.6
|road={{AUshield|VIC|C124}} Boundary Road (C124){{VICcity|p=on|Belmont|Grovedale|Whittington}}
|notes=Eastbound traffic continues east onto Bellarine Highway, westbound traffic continues northwest onto Ormond Street
}}
{{VICint
|location=Wallington
|km=18.9
|road={{AUshield|VIC|C129}} Grubb Road (C129){{VICcity|p=on|Drysdale|Ocean Grove|Barwon Heads}}
|notes=Roundabout
}}
{{VICint
|LGA=Queenscliffe
|LGAspan=3
|location=Point Lonsdale
|km=25.9
|road={{AUshield|VIC|C126}} Portarlington–Queenscliff Road (C126){{VICcity|p=on|Portarlington}}
|notes=
}}
{{VICint
|location_special=Point Lonsdale–Queenscliff boundary
|km=27.8
|road={{AUshield|VIC|C127}} Point Lonsdale Road (C127){{VICcity|p=on|Point Lonsdale}}
|notes=Roundabout
}}
{{VICint
|location_special=Queenscliff
|km=32.5
|type=trans
|road=Wharf Street East
|notes=Eastern terminus of highway
Route B110 continues via Queenscliff–Sorrento Ferry to Point Nepean Road, Sorrento
}}
{{jctbtm|keys=trans}}
See also
{{Portal|Australian Roads}}
References
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{{Road infrastructure in Geelong}}
{{Road infrastructure in Victoria}}
Category:Highways in Victoria (state)