13-432: B120 may refer to: State route B120 or Hopkins Highway , a highway in south-western Victoria, Australia B120 series Sunny Truck , a truck by Nissan [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
26-755: A corresponding journey via the Victorian coast along Highway 1 ). The passing of the Country Roads Act of 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-) Inverleigh Road from Geelong to Inverleigh
39-605: A south-westerly direction as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, mostly following the course of Hopkins River , crossing it in Ellerslie . It eventually terminates at the intersection with Princes Highway in the centre of Warrnambool . Within Victoria, the passing of the Country Roads Act of 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
52-596: Is a rural highway through the Barwon South West region of Victoria , Australia , linking Geelong and the town of Hamilton . Hamilton Highway commences at the intersection of Latrobe Terrace and Portarlington Road in Geelong and heads in a westerly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway through Fyansford , crossing the Barwon River and an interchange with Geelong Ring Road , before leaving
65-476: Is a short highway in south-western Victoria , Australia , serving to link Hamilton Highway at Mortlake with Princes Highway (and the western end of Great Ocean Road nearby) at the port city of Warrnambool . It is named after the Hopkins River , with which it runs in close proximity. Hopkins Highway commences at the intersection with Hamilton Highway on the western edge of Mortlake and runs in
78-592: The Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads ). Hopkins Highway was declared a State Highway in December 1990, from Mortlake to Warrnambool , subsuming the original declaration of Mortlake-Warrnambool Road as a Main Road. Hopkins Highway was signed as State Route 104 between Mortlake and Warrnambool in 1990; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, it
91-511: The Geelong suburbs and continuing west as a rural highway through the localities of Inverleigh , Cressy , Lismore , Mortlake , and Penshurst to eventually terminate at the intersection with Glenelg Highway at the eastern edge of Hamilton . Glenelg Highway continues west across the border with South Australia to Mount Gambier , making Hamilton Highway a popular alternative Melbourne-Mount Gambier route (being roughly 50 km shorter than
104-404: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=B120&oldid=932704049 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages State route B120 Hopkins Highway
117-523: The management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Mortlake-Warrnambool Road was declared a Main Road from Mortlake to Warrnambool . The passing of the Transport Act of 1983 (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 ) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through
130-468: The original declaration of Geelong-Inverleigh Road as a Main Road; before this declaration, this road was referred to as Geelong-Hamilton Road . The Geelong end of the highway was once routed along Hyland Street through Fyansford , until the construction of Deviation Road between 1931 and 1932 with unemployment labour during the Great Depression . Opened in 1933, it was cut into the hillside,
143-453: The surface was originally of concrete construction. The road opened 54 years after the first petition by Fyansford residents for such a road. A new bridge over Woady Yaloak River in Cressy was opened in 1995, at a cost of $ 2.86 million, adjacent to and replacing a structure built in 1854 and rebuilt in 1880 after fire damage, retained but now closed to vehicular traffic. Hamilton Highway
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#1732781164607156-532: Was declared a Main Road on 16 March 1914. The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Hamilton Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1959/60 financial year, from Geelong via Cressy and Mortlake to Hamilton (for a total of 143 miles), subsuming
169-569: Was replaced by route B120. The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads : in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hopkins Highway (Arterial #6010) between Hamilton Highway in Mortlake and Princes Highway at Warrnambool . [REDACTED] Australian Roads portal Hamilton Highway Hamilton Highway
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