Hoddle Highway
{{Short description|Highway in Melbourne, Victoria}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2013}}
{{Infobox Australian road
| type = highway
| urban = yes
| road_name = Hoddle Highway
(Hoddle Main Road)
| road_name2 = Hoddle Street, Punt Road, Barkly Street
| state = vic
| image = Hoddle Street, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia.jpg
| caption = Hoddle Street looking south, with the Collingwood Town Hall on the left
| length = 10.9
| gazetted = September 1960 {{small|(as Main Road)}}{{cite web |url=https://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1960&class=general&page_num=2955&state=V&classNum=G84&id= |title=Victorian Government Gazette |date=7 September 1960 |pages=2977-81 |publisher=State Library of Victoria |access-date=23 May 2024 }}
September 1994 {{small|(as State Highway)}}{{cite web |url=http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1994&class=general&page_num=2393&state=V&classNum=G36&id= |title=Victorian Government Gazette |date=8 September 1994 |pages=2411–2 |publisher=State Library of Victoria |access-date=30 December 2021 }}
| route = {{plainlist|
- {{AUshield|S|29}} Metro Route 29 {{small|(1965–present)
Entire route}} - Concurrencies:
- {{AUshield|S|3}} Metro Route 3 {{small|(1965–present)
(through St Kilda Junction)}}
}}
| coordinates_a = {{coord|-37.785565|144.994778|type:landmark_region:AU-VIC|display=inline}}
| coordinates_b = {{coord|-37.881852|144.977925|type:landmark_region:AU-VIC|display=inline}}
| pushpin_label_position_a = top
| pushpin_label_position_b = bottom
| alternative_location_map=Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne
| direction_a = North
| direction_b = South
| end_a = {{AUshield|S|29}} High Street
{{small|Fitzroy North, Melbourne}}
| end_b = {{AUshield|S|33}} Marine Parade
{{small|Elwood, Melbourne}}
| exits = {{plainlist|
- {{AUshield|S|46}} Heidelberg Road
- {{AUshield|S|83}} Alexandra Parade
- {{AUshield|VIC|M3}} Eastern Freeway
- {{AUshield|S|32}} Victoria Street
- {{AUshield|S|20}} Swan Street
- {{AUshield|Toll|M1}} CityLink
- {{AUshield|R|ALT1}} Dandenong Road
- {{AUshield|S|3}} St Kilda Road
}}
| through = {{VICcity|Collingwood|Abbotsford|Richmond|South Yarra}}, {{VICcity|Prahran|Windsor|St Kilda}}
}}
Hoddle Highway is an urban highway in Melbourne linking CityLink and the Eastern Freeway, itself a sub-section of Hoddle Main Road. Both of these names are not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Hoddle Street, Punt Road and Barkly Street. This article will deal with the entire length of the corridor for sake of completion.
The highway is named after the surveyor Robert Hoddle, who planned central Melbourne's Hoddle Grid.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
Route
Hoddle Main Road starts at the intersection with Queens Parade and High Street in Fitzroy North and heads south as Hoddle Street, crossing Eastern Freeway one kilometre later (and from where the Hoddle Highway declaration officially starts). It continues south until the intersection with Wellington Parade and Bridge Road, changing name to Punt Road. It continues south, passing near the Melbourne Cricket Ground, under Citylink in Richmond, across the Yarra River via the Hoddle Bridge through the South Yarra district to where St Kilda Road and Dandenong Road meet at St Kilda Junction (where the highway declaration ends). Hoddle Main Road continues south on the other side of St Kilda Junction as Barkly Street through the St Kilda city centre, to eventually terminate at Marine Parade in Elwood.
History
The elimination of the railway crossing at the Clifton Hill railway gates, where Heidelberg-Eltham Road (known today as Heidelberg Road) crossed the Hurstbridge and Whittlesea (now Mernda) railway lines and then Hoddle Street, was approved by the Victorian government on 19 May 1955, instructing the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) to proceed with the construction of a road overpass.{{cite web|title=Clifton Hill rail bridge gets 'go head' |publication-date=19 May 1955 |work=The Argus|location=Melbourne|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71883404 |access-date=24 October 2021 }} The Board contracted the project to Lewis Construction Co. Pty. Ltd., estimated to cost A£240,000. Work commenced in February 1956,{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286181 |title=Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Third Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1956 |newspaper=Country Roads Board of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=23 November 1956 |page=36 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}} with the southern portion open to traffic in April 1957, and the remaining sections, including the ramps leading to and from Hoddle Street, opening several weeks later in May 1957.{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286182 |title=Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Fourth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1957 |newspaper=Country Roads Board of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=21 November 1957 |page=25 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}
The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1958http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/cra1958182.pdf State of Victoria, An Act to consolidate the Law relating to Country Roads 30 September 1958 (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/hava1924204/ State of Victoria, An Act to make further provision with respect to Highways and Country Roads Motor Cars and Traction Engines and for other purposes 30 December 1924]) provided for the declaration of State Highways and Main Roads, roads partially financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads). Hoddle Main Road was declared a Main Road on 7 September 1960, from Queens Parade in Fitzroy North, along Hoddle Street through Richmond, along Punt Road through South Yarra, and along Barkly Street to Elwood.{{cite news |url=https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1286185 |title=Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Seventh Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1960 |newspaper=Country Roads Board of Victoria |location=Melbourne |date=21 November 1960 |pages=10–12 |publisher=Victorian Government Library Service}}
Hoddle Main Road (including all its constituent roads) was signed as Metropolitan Route 29 between Fitzroy North and Elwood in 1965.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
The passing of the Transport Act of 1983[http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/ta1983153.pdf State of Victoria, An Act to Re-enact with Amendments the Law relating to Transport including the Law with respect to Railways, Roads and Tramways... 23 June 1983] updated the definition of State Highways. Hoddle Highway was declared a State Highway by VicRoads in September 1994 within Hoddle Main Road, from Victoria Street in Richmond to the St Kilda Junction in St Kilda, later extended north to the interchange with Eastern Freeway in January 1995;{{cite web |url=http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/view.cgi?year=1995&class=general&page_num=157&state=V&classNum=G3&id= |title=Victorian Government Gazette |date=26 January 1995 |pages=180–1 |publisher=State Library of Victoria |access-date=30 December 2021 }} all roads were known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.
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 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hoddle Highway (Arterial #6080), beginning at the interchange of Hoddle Street with Eastern Freeway at Clifton Hill and ending at St Kilda Road (Nepean Highway) in St Kilda,{{cite web |author=VicRoads |title=VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015 |url=https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/-/media/files/documents/utilities/about-vr/acts-and-regulations/register-of-public-roads---part-a-v-2015.ashx?la=en&hash=116BE6FB86F506FF0B5BAFBEA45FCD6C |format=PDF |publisher=Government of Victoria |page=930 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501042521/https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/-/media/files/documents/utilities/about-vr/acts-and-regulations/register-of-public-roads---part-a-v-2015.ashx?la=en&hash=116BE6FB86F506FF0B5BAFBEA45FCD6C |archivedate=1 May 2020 |url-status=live |access-date=19 October 2021 }} while re-declaring the remnants between Clifton Hill and Elwood as Hoddle Main Road (Arterial #5880);{{cite web |author=VicRoads |title=VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015 |url=https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/-/media/files/documents/utilities/about-vr/acts-and-regulations/register-of-public-roads---part-a-v-2015.ashx?la=en&hash=116BE6FB86F506FF0B5BAFBEA45FCD6C |format=PDF |publisher=Government of Victoria |page=796 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501042521/https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/-/media/files/documents/utilities/about-vr/acts-and-regulations/register-of-public-roads---part-a-v-2015.ashx?la=en&hash=116BE6FB86F506FF0B5BAFBEA45FCD6C |archivedate=1 May 2020 |url-status=live |access-date=19 October 2021 }} as before, all roads are still known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.
=1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan=
The Hoddle Street – Punt Road – Barkly Street corridor was designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as the F2 Freeway. Part of the F2 Freeway would have connected St Kilda Junction to the Metropolitan Ring Road at the Hume Freeway (Craigieburn Bypass), via the Hoddle Highway and Merri Creek.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
Hoddle Street Massacre
In 1987, Hoddle Street was the site of a deadly shooting spree known as the Hoddle Street massacre. The perpetrator, 19-year-old army recruit Julian Knight, killed seven people and injured 19 others during his rampage. He is currently serving seven consecutive terms of life imprisonment.{{cite news|last=Murphy|first=Padraic|title=Hoddle St killer Julian Knight seeks aid for release bid|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/hoddle-st-killer-julian-knight-seeks-aid-for-release-bid/story-fnat7jnn-1226638928356|access-date=2013-06-09|newspaper=Herald Sun|date=2013-05-09}}
Major intersections
{{AUSinttop|location_ref=|length_ref=}}
{{VICint
|LGAC=Yarra
|LGAspan=4
|location_special={{VICcity|Clifton Hill}}–{{VICcity|Fitzroy North}} boundary
|lspan=2
|km=0.0
|type=trans
|road={{AUshield|S|29}} High Street (Metro Route 29 northeast){{VICcity|p=on|Northcote|Reservoir|Epping}}
Queens Parade (southwest){{VICcity|p=on|Fitzroy North}}
|notes=Northern terminus of road, northern end of Hoddle Street
Metro Route 29 continues northeast along High Street
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|km=0.2
|type=incomplete
|road={{AUshield|S|46}} Heidelberg Road (Metro Route 46){{VICcity|p=on|Fitzroy North|Ivanhoe|Greensborough|Diamond Creek}}
|notes=Westbound and eastbound entry to Heidelberg Road northbound only, westbound exit from Heidelberg Road southbound only
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|location_special={{VICcity|Clifton Hill}}–{{VICcity|Collingwood}}–{{VICcity|Abbotsford}} tripoint
|km=1.1
|type=incomplete
|road={{AUshield|S|83}} Alexandra Parade (Metro Route 83 west){{VICcity|p=on|Carlton|Parkville}}
{{AUshield|VIC|M3}} Eastern Freeway (M3 east){{VICcity|p=on|Ringwood|Dandenong|Frankston}}
|notes=No access to Eastern Freeway westbound from Hoddle Street southbound
Northern terminus of Hoddle Highway (declared)
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|location_special={{VICcity|Collingwood}}–{{VICcity|Abbotsford}} boundary
|km=1.6
|road={{AUshield|S|34}} Johnson Street{{VICcity|p=on|Carlton|Kew|Ringwood}}
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|LGAspan=6
|location_special={{VICcity|Collingwood}}–{{VICcity|Abbotsford}}–{{VICcity|East Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Richmond}} quadripoint
|km=2.7
|road={{AUshield|S|32}} Victoria Parade (Metro Route 32 west){{VICcity|p=on|North Melbourne}}
{{AUshield|S|32}} Victoria Street (Metro Route 32 east){{VICcity|p=on|Kew|Forest Hill|Montrose}}
|notes=
}}
{{VICint
|location_special={{VICcity|East Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Richmond}} boundary
|km=3.6
|type=trans
|road={{AUshield|S|30}} Wellington Parade (Metro Route 30 west) – City
{{AUshield|S|30}} Bridge Road (Metro Route 30 east){{VICcity|p=on|Camberwell}}
|notes=Southern end of Hoddle Street, northern end of Punt Road
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|location_special={{VICcity|East Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Richmond}} tripoint
|km=4.2
|road=Brunton Avenue{{VICcity|p=on|East Melbourne}}
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|location_special={{VICcity|Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Richmond}} boundary
|km=4.3
|bridge=Lilydale, Belgrave, Glen Waverley, Sandringham, Frankston, Pakenham and Cranbourne railway lines
|notes=
|LGA=|road=}}
{{VICint
|location_special={{VICcity|Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Richmond}}–{{VICcity|Cremorne}} tripoint
|km=4.4
|road={{AUshield|S|20}} Olympic Boulevard (Metro Route 20 west){{VICcity|p=on|Southbank}}
{{AUshield|S|20}} Swan Street (Metro Route 20 east){{VICcity|p=on|Burnley|Camberwell}}
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|location_special={{VICcity|Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Cremorne}} boundary
|km=4.9
|type=incomplete
|road={{AUshield|Toll|M1}} CityLink (M1){{VICcity|p=on|Kooyong|Chadstone|Narre Warren}}
|notes=Westbound exit from CityLink northbound only, eastbound entry to CityLink southbound only
|LGA=}}
{{jctbridge
|river=Yarra River
|km=5.0
|bridge=Hoddle Bridge
}}
{{VICint
|LGA=Melbourne–Stonnington boundary
|LGAspan=3
|location=South Yarra
|lspan=2
|km=5.1
|road={{AUshield|T|2}} Alexandra Avenue (Tourist Route 2){{VICcity|p=on|Southbank|Burnley}}
|notes=
}}
{{VICint
|km=6.0
|road={{AUshield|S|26}} Toorak Road (Metro Route 26){{VICcity|p=on|Albert Park|Kooyong|Burwood East|Ferntree Gully}}
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|location_special={{VICcity|South Yarra}}–{{VICcity|Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Prahran}} boundary
|km=6.8
|road={{AUshield|+|hospital}} Commercial Road{{VICcity|p=on|Glen Iris}}, The Alfred Hospital
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|LGA=Melbourne–Port Phillip–Stonnington tripoint
|location_special={{VICcity|Melbourne}}–{{VICcity|Prahran}}–{{VICcity|Windsor}} boundary
|km=7.3
|road={{AUshield|S|24}} High Street (Metro Route 24){{VICcity|p=on|Albert Park|Glen Iris|Glen Waverley|Wantirna South}}
|notes=
}}
{{VICint
|LGA=Port Phillip–Stonnington boundary
|location_special={{VICcity|St Kilda}}–{{VICcity|Windsor}} boundary
|km=7.9
|type=incomplete
|road={{AUshield|S|3}} St Kilda Road (Metro Route 3 north) – City
{{AUshield|R|ALT1}} Queens Way (National Alt Route 1 east){{VICcity|p=on|Oakleigh|Dandenong|Narre Warren}}
|notes=No access to St Kilda Road: one way southbound
Northern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 3
}}
{{VICint
|LGAC=Port Phillip
|LGAspan=7
|location=St Kilda
|lspan=5
|km=8.0
|type=incomplete
|road={{AUshield|S|3}} St Kilda Road (Metro Route 3 north) – City
{{AUshield|R|ALT1}} Queens Road (National Alt Route 1 west){{VICcity|p=on|Southbank}}
Fitzroy Street{{VICcity|p=on|St Kilda}}
|notes=Westbound entry to Queens Road northbound only
Southern terminus of Hoddle Highway (declared)
Southern end of Punt Road, northern end of Barkly Street
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|km=8.2
|type=incomplete
|road={{AUshield|S|3}} St Kilda Road (Metro Route 3 south){{VICcity|p=on|Mordialloc|Frankston|Dromana|Portsea}}
|notes=No right turn from Barkly Street to St Kilda Road southbound
Southern terminus of concurrency with Metro Route 3
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|km=8.4
|road=Princes Street (west){{VICcity|p=on|St Kilda}}
Alma Road (east){{VICcity|p=on|Caulfield North}}
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|km=8.9
|road=Grey Street (west){{VICcity|p=on|St Kilda}}
Inkerman Street (east){{VICcity|p=on|Caulfield North}}
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|km=9.2
|road=Carlisle Street{{VICcity|p=on|St Kilda|Balaclava|Caulfield East}}
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|location=Elwood
|lspan=2
|km=10.8
|road=Glen Huntly Road{{VICcity|p=on|Elsternwick|Glen Huntly|Carnegie}}
|notes=
|LGA=}}
{{VICint
|km=10.9
|type=trans
|road={{AUshield|S|33}} Marine Parade (Metro Route 33 north){{VICcity|p=on|St Kilda|Port Melbourne}}
{{AUshield|S|33}} Ormond Esplanade (Metro Route 33 southeast){{VICcity|p=on|Brighton|Sandringham|Mordialloc}}
|notes=Southern terminus of road and Metro Route 29
Southern end of Barkly Street
|LGA=}}
{{Jctbtm|keys=incomplete,trans}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Portal|Australian Roads}}
{{Road infrastructure in Melbourne}}
Category:Highways and freeways in Melbourne
Category:Transport in the City of Melbourne (LGA)
Category:Transport in the City of Yarra
Category:Transport in the City of Port Phillip