21-574: Bass Highway can refer to: Bass Highway (Victoria) Bass Highway (Tasmania) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bass Highway . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bass_Highway&oldid=543808730 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
42-403: A State Route, and later a concurrency with Metropolitan Route 12 between Greens Road and Pound Road through Dandenong South; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route M420 between Lynbrook and Lang Lang, B440 between Lang Lang and Sale (which was upgraded to A440 when highway upgrades along South Gippsland Highway raised the quality of
63-645: A roundabout with Princes Highway at Sale . 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. (Main) South Gippsland Road
84-544: A south and then south-easterly direction along the Bass Strait coast through Wonthaggi to Inverloch , before turning north-easterly to eventually terminate at the intersection with South Gippsland Highway and Strzelecki Highway at Leongatha . 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
105-462: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bass Highway (Victoria) Bass Highway is an 87 kilometre highway in Victoria, Australia , running along the coasts of Western Port and Bass Strait , between Lang Lang and Leongatha via Wonthaggi . A good portion of the highway serves as a gateway from Melbourne to Phillip Island . It
126-589: The Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Bass Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year, from South Gippsland Highway near Nyora via Anderson , and Dalyston to Wonthaggi (for a total of 30 miles), subsuming
147-537: 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 Bass Highway (Arterial #6710) between South Gippsland Highway in Lang Lang and Leongatha . A project to duplicate Bass Highway from Lang Lang to Bass (east of Phillip Island) commenced in the late 1990s, addressing
168-617: The South Gippsland region of in Victoria , Australia to the town of Sale . The highway serves as a gateway from Melbourne to many attractions including Wilsons Promontory and Phillip Island as well as being an important road for farmers in Gippsland. South Gippsland Highway commences at the intersection with Princes Highway in Dandenong , and heads in a south-eastly direction as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road towards
189-434: The State government through the Country Roads Board. South Gippsland Highway was declared a State Highway in 1933, cobbled together from roads between Dandenong and Nyora , and between Sale and Yarram (for a total of 83 miles), subsuming the original declarations of (Main) Coast Road, (Main) South Gippsland Road and Sale-Yarram Roads as Main Roads. In 1939, another section between Foster through Welshpool to Yarram
210-535: The definition of State Highways; the highway was extended east one last time from Inverloch to Leongatha in December 1990, subsuming the original declaration of Inverloch-Leongatha Road as a Main Road and completing its present-day alignment at this stage. Bass Highway was signed as State Route 181 between Lang Lang and Wonthaggi in 1986, later extended with the road to Leongatha in 1990. With Victoria's conversion to
231-416: The high traffic demand of the route and recent crash history. It was constructed in seven stages, with Stage 7 of the project from Woolmer Road to Phillip Island Road completed in 2013. The benefits of this project include: The project was completed in 2013. South Gippsland Highway South Gippsland Highway is a partially divided highway connecting the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne through
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#1732772082538252-418: The management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Inverloch-Leongatha Road from Inverloch to Leongatha , and Inverloch-Wonthaggi Road from Inverloch to Wonthaggi , were declared Main Roads on 10 November 1913, and (Main) Coast Road from Lang Lang to Anderson (and continuing west to San Remo ), was declared a Main Road on 7 September 1914. The passing of
273-565: The newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route M420 between Lang Lang and Grantville, A420 between Grantville and the Phillip Island turn-off at Anderson, and B460 between Anderson and Leongatha. A duplication project improving the quality of the road upgraded the A420 allocation to M420 in 2013, now running the entire way between Lang Lang and a new link road to Phillip Island in south-western Bass. The passing of
294-402: The northern shores of Western Port Bay , through Cranbourne and Tooradin , until it reaches the interchange with Bass Highway to Phillip Island outside Lang Lang , after which it is entirely an undivided rural highway. It continues in an southeasterly direction through Nyora , Korumburra , Leongatha , Foster , Welshpool and Yarram , before heading north and eventually terminating at
315-464: The original declaration of (Main) Coast Road as a Main Road; before this declaration, the roads were also referred to as Anderson–Dalyston Road and Dalyston–Wonthaggi Road . In the 1959/60 financial year, its eastern end was extended from Wonthaggi to Inverloch , subsuming the original declaration of Inverloch-Wonthaggi Road as a Main Road. The passing of the Transport Act of 1983 updated
336-417: The rerouting of M420 to the upgraded route. The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 through the Parliament of Victoria granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads : VicRoads re-declared the road in 2004 as South Gippsland Highway (Arterial #6580), from Dandenong South to Sale . The Gippsland railway line crossing just south of
357-614: The road in 2003), and unallocated (excluding the short stretch of Metro Route 12) between Dandenong and Dandenong South. The western section of the South Gippsland Highway between the intersection of the Koo Wee Rup Bypass and the Princess Highway is gradually being renumbered to A21 and B21 following the completion of major works on Heasville - Koo Wee Rup Road in 2024. The upgrade has included
378-470: The western end began in 1975, initially between South Gippsland Freeway and Cranbourne; a distance of 17 km. The final link in the duplication of the highway between Dandenong and Bass Highway opened in the early 1990s between Princes Highway and Pound Road. South Gippsland Highway was signed as State Route 180 between Dandenong and Sale on 13 December 1985, the first road in Victoria signed with
399-436: Was added, along the former Foster-Yarram Road. In the 1947/48 financial year, another section between Nyora via Korumburra and Leongatha to Meeniyan was added, along the former Loch-Nyora Road, Bena-Korumburra Road and Korumburra-Leongatha Roads. In the 1965/66 financial year, the last section between Meeniyan and Foster was added, completing its present-day alignment at this stage. Conversion to dual carriageways at
420-426: Was declared a Main Road, from Korumburra to Leongatha , on 10 November 1913; (Main) Coast Road was declared a Main Road, from Dandenong to Lang Lang , on 1 December 1913; and Sale-Yarram Road was declared a Main Road, from Sale via Longford to Stradbroke, on 23 March 1914; The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by
441-422: Was named due to its proximity to Bass Strait . Bass Highway commences at the interchange with South Gippsland Highway at Lang Lang and heads in a southerly direction as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road along the eastern coast of Western Port Bay , through Grantville , to the turn-off to Phillip Island ) at Bass . Bass Highway then narrows to a two-lane, single carriageway semi-rural highway, continuing in
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