Hyland Highway

View of the Loy Yang power station from the Hyland Highway
Hyland Highway is located in Victoria
North end
North end
South end
South end
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length59.9 km (37 mi)[1]
Route number(s) C482 (1998–present)
Former
route number
State Route 188 (1990–1998)
Major junctions
North end Princes Highway
Traralgon, Victoria
 
South end South Gippsland Highway
Yarram, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlementsGormandale
Highway system

Hyland Highway is a road connecting the towns of Traralgon and Yarram in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The highway was named after Sir Herbert Hyland, a popular politician for the Country Party in the Gippsland area.

Route

Highland Highway starts at the intersection of Princes Street and Breed Street, heading south as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, nearly immediately crossing the Bairnsdale railway line just east of Morwell railway station, then heads east after a roundabout, then after another kilometre turns south to leave Traralgon's suburbs, curving around Loy Yang's open-cut coal mine, then heads south through Gormandale, through the eastern stretches of the Strzelecki Ranges, to eventually end at the intersection with South Gippsland Highway, 2 kilometres north-east of Yarram.

History

The road was originally known as Yarram-Traralgon Road and declared a Main Road by the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) from at least 1955.[2]

The construction of the open-cut coal mine for Loy Yang Power Station in the late 1970s required the road to be re-routed along Traralgon Creek Road (west of the coal mine) and Bartons Lane (south of the coal mine); the former alignment is now known as Craigburn Place (to the mine's north) and Broomfields Lane (to the mine's south-east).

The passing of the Transport Act of 1983[3] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[4]) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads). The Hyland Highway was declared a State Highway in December 1990,[5] from Traralgon to Yarram; before this declaration, the road was referred to as Traralgon Creek Road and Yarram-Traralgon Road.[5]

Hyland Highway was signed as State Route 188 between Traralgon and Yarram in 1990; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, it was replaced by route C482.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[6] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hyland Highway (Arterial #6170), beginning at Princes Highway at Traralgon and ending at South Gippsland Highway in Yarram.[7]

Major intersections

LGALocation[1][7]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
LatrobeTraralgon0.00.0 Princes Highway (M1 east, west)  Sale, Bairnsdale, Warragul, Melbourne
Breed Street (north)  Traralgon
Northern terminus of highway and route C482 at traffic lights
0.10.062Bairnsdale railway line
0.20.12 Bank Street (C476)  Churchill, BoolarraRoundabout
Loy Yang–Traralgon South boundary6.64.1 Mattingley Hill Road (C475)  Morwell, Churchill, Boolarra
6.94.3 Traralgon Creek Road (C483)  Callignee
WellingtonWillung South31.619.6 Grand Ridge Road (C484)  Carrajung, Mirboo North
Carrajung Lower39.124.3 Carrajung–Woodside Road (C453)  Woodside, Woodside Beach
Yarram59.937.2 South Gippsland Highway (A440)  Sale, Foster, Leongatha, Lang LangSouthern terminus of highway and route C482 at T junction
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •       Route transition

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (15 August 2015). "Highland Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  2. "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Second Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1955". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 December 1955. p. 17.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 1 2 "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 19 December 1990. pp. 3783, 3790. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  6. State Government of Victoria. "Road Management Act 2004" (PDF). Government of Victoria. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  7. 1 2 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 957. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.


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