Bellarine Highway

Victoria
Map of the Bellarine Highway, south-west of Port Phillip Bay
General information
TypeHighway
Length32.5 km (20 mi)[1]
Route number(s) B110 (1998–present)
Entire route (via McKillop Street)
Former
route number		 State Route 91 (1986–1998)
Entire route (via Ryrie Street)
Major junctions
West end Princes Highway
Geelong, Victoria
 
  • Grubb Road
  • Point Lonsdale Road
East endWharf Street East
Queenscliff, Victoria
Location(s)
Major settlementsThomson, Newcomb, Moolap, Leopold, Wallington, Point Lonsdale, Queenscliff
Highway system

The Bellarine Highway[2] is a main arterial highway that runs east from Geelong in Victoria along the Bellarine Peninsula to Queenscliff. The highway also provides the main route to Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove, localities along the southern coast of the peninsula.

Route

The Bellarine Highway begins at the intersection of Latrobe Terrace and McKillop Street on the western edge of central Geelong. It runs east as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Geelong, where it eventually intersects with and changes it name to Ormond Road, running south-east until the intersection with Boundary Road on the eastern edge of central Geelong. It then changes its name to the Bellarine Highway in its own right and progressively heads south-east through Leopold. It eventually meets Grubb Road in Wallington, where it narrows to a dual-lane, single-carriageway road past Point Lonsdale. The highway eventually ends at Wharf Street East, Queenscliff, where it meets the Searoad Ferries passenger and motor vehicle ferry which operates across Port Phillip Bay to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.

History

The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[3] 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 (later VicRoads). The Bellarine Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year,[4] from Geelong to Queenscliff (for a total of 20 miles); before this declaration, the road was referred to as Geelong-Queenscliffe Road.[5] It was named after the Bellarine Peninsula.

The Bellarine Highway was signed as State Route 91 between Geelong and Queenscliff in 1986;[6] with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route B110, which continues on the other side of the bay at Sorrento to run along Point Nepean Road until Mornington. The Geelong end of the highway originally ran along Ryrie Street in the Geelong city centre, but was relocated a number of blocks south to McKillop Street to remove heavy trucks from the shopping district in October 1997.[7]

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[8] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2006, VicRoads re-declared the road as Bellarine Highway (Arterial #6730), beginning at Latrobe Terrace at Geelong and ending at the end of the Bellarine Peninsula in Queenscliff.[9]

Major intersections

LGALocation[1][9]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
Greater GeelongGeelong0.00.0 Latrobe Terrace (A10/Tourist Route 21) – Melbourne, Avalon, ColacWestern terminus of highway (as McKillop Street) and route B110
East Geelong2.11.3Ormond Street (northwest) – Central Geelong
McKillop Street (east) – East Geelong		Eastbound traffic turns southeast onto Ormond Street, westbound traffic turns west onto McKillop Street
Thomson–Newcomb–East Geelong tripoint3.62.2 Boundary Road (C124) – Belmont, Grovedale, WhittingtonEastbound traffic continues east onto Bellarine Highway, westbound traffic continues northwest onto Ormond Street
Wallington18.911.7 Grubb Road (C129) – Drysdale, Ocean Grove, Barwon HeadsRoundabout
QueenscliffePoint Lonsdale25.916.1 Portarlington–Queenscliff Road (C126) – Portarlington
Point Lonsdale–Queenscliff boundary27.817.3 Point Lonsdale Road (C127) – Point LonsdaleRoundabout
Queenscliff32.520.2Wharf Street EastEastern terminus of highway
Route B110 continues via Queenscliff–Sorrento Ferry to Point Nepean Road, Sorrento
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •       Route transition

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Google (13 April 2014). "Bellarine Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  2. ↑ Bellarine Highway, Point Nepean Road, & Mornington Peninsula Freeway (B110), Expressway - Paul Rands. Retrieved on 8 September 2013.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1948". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 November 1948. p. 7.
  5. ↑ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1939". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 10 November 1939. p. 87.
  6. ↑ "Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1986". Road Construction Authority of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 24 November 1986. p. 42.
  7. ↑ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 30 October 1997. p. 2969-70. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. 1 2 VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. pp. 1022–4. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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