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The Dandenong Valley Highway is an urban highway stretching almost 40 kilometres from Bayswater in Melbourne's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. This name covers many consecutive streets and is not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Stud Road, Foster Street, Dandenong-Frankston Road, Dandenong Road West ...
The route then continues east, crossing Hammond Road, Dandenong – Frankston Road and the South Gippsland Highway before finishing with a fully grade separated T interchange with the South Gippsland Freeway in Dandenong South. The freeway was originally designated in the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan as part of the F2 Freeway corridor.
The second stage of the bypass commenced construction in 2011 between Springvale Road and Perry Road, connecting the existing Dandenong Bypass at Perry Road with Westall Road and creating an arterial-standard highway, with traffic light controlled intersections and an overpass at Cheltenham Road, for 11 km from Heatherton Road in Springvale to the South Gippsland Highway.
Frankston–Dandenong Road (Metro Route 9) – Frankston, Dandenong: Frankston–Langwarrin boundary: 21.3: 13.2: 12: Skye Road – Langwarrin, Frankston: Southbound exit and northbound entrance only: 23.0: 14.3: 13: Cranbourne–Frankston Road (Metro Route 4/Tourist Drive 12) – Frankston, Cranbourne: Frankston–Mornington Peninsula boundary
1962/63 – Frankston By-pass Road, extended 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from Frankston-Dandenong Road to Beach Street opened, as a two-lane single-carriageway road, with grade separation at Beach Street. [7] 1970 – Frankston Freeway, 2 miles (3.2 km) of second carriageway between Klauer Street and Frankston-Cranbourne Road, opened December 1970. [8]
The first stage of the road began construction in January 1995 [2] and opened in September 1996, starting at Mount Dandenong Road and heading west to Ringwood Street. [3] An extension to the bypass to connect it to the Eastern Freeway at Springvale Road in Donvale was planned in October 2000: [4] this would include tunnels 1.5 km in length and a connection with the planned Scoresby Freeway ...
– southern end re-aligned through Frankston from Dandenong Road East and Beach Street to current alignment in 1991 when Beach Street rail crossing closed – concurrencies with: along Lonsdale Street through Dandenong; along Boronia Road through Wantirna; along Ringwood–Warrandyte Road through Warrandyte: Metro Route 10
Over the years the project was variously referred to as the Eastern Ring Road, Scoresby Freeway, Scoresby Bypass, and Mitcham-Frankston Freeway.. On 23 March 2005, with the beginning of construction on the project, then Premier Steve Bracks announced that the road would be called EastLink, at a ceremony in Rowville. [15]