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
| LGA | Location[1][7] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latrobe | Traralgon | 0.0 | 0.0 |  Princes Highway (M1 east, west) – Sale, Bairnsdale, Warragul, MelbourneBreed Street (north) – Traralgon | Northern terminus of highway and route C482 at traffic lights |
| 0.1 | 0.062 | Bairnsdale railway line | |||
| 0.2 | 0.12 |  Bank Street (C476) – Churchill, Boolarra | Roundabout | ||
| Loy Yang–Traralgon South boundary | 6.6 | 4.1 |  Mattingley Hill Road (C475) – Morwell, Churchill, Boolarra | ||
| 6.9 | 4.3 |  Traralgon Creek Road (C483) – Callignee | |||
| Wellington | Willung South | 31.6 | 19.6 |  Grand Ridge Road (C484) – Carrajung, Mirboo North | |
| Carrajung Lower | 39.1 | 24.3 |  Carrajung–Woodside Road (C453) – Woodside, Woodside Beach | ||
| Yarram | 59.9 | 37.2 |  South Gippsland Highway (A440) – Sale, Foster, Leongatha, Lang Lang | Southern terminus of highway and route C482 at T junction | |
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
References
- ^ a b c Google (15 August 2015). "Highland Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 19 December 1990. pp. 3783, 3790. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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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