Road Photos & Information: Victoria
Tyers Road, Moe-Glengarry Road and Tyers-Thomson Valley Road (C481)
Statistics:
- Length:
- 52 km
- Termini:
- Northern: Thomson Dam Access Rd (unnumbered), Baw Baw
- Southern: Traralgon West Rd (C477), Traralgon
- Suburbs, Towns & Localities Along Route:
- Traralgon, Jacob Creek, Rawson and Baw Baw
Route Numbering:
- Current: C481
- Multiplexed with: C103
- Road Authority Internal Classification: 1
- 3004 (Baw Baw to Tyers)
- 5539 (Tyers)
- 5540 (Traralgon to Tyers)
General Information:
C481 is an arterial route connecting the town of Traralgon, which is a major regional centre within the Latrobe Valley, to several rural residential townships. The region is mainly used for agriculture, such as food production, and has a variety of industries, including horticulture, forestry, paper production, quarrying, boutique wine, retail trade, manufacturing, open cut coal mining, energy production and tourism. The route provides access to the tourist town of Walhalla, Baw Baw National Park and the Mount Baw Baw Alpine Resort and ski fields. 2
Multiplexes along the route include:
- C103 for 1 km, Tyers.
History:
- 1920-21: Construction of the Tyers Road Causeway Bridge. It is located to the west of the current road alignment. It is the second-oldest surviving Victorian timber bridge known to have been built under Country Roads Board supervision (the oldest being Jubilee Bridge, Omeo), and the oldest known surviving CRB Developmental Road bridge. It is also Victoria's longest (at 166 metres) surviving all-timber road bridge, and the state's second-longest transverse-timber-decked road bridge. 3
- 1936: Construction of bridge over Latrobe River at Tyers. 2
Traralgon to Baw Baw
Intersection Directional Sign:
ID sign facing Scrubby Ln, Traralgon, May 2011.
Image © Paul Rands
1 VIC Government, VicRoads, Road Management Plan 2020-2021, 07 December 2020.
2 Indigenous Design, Report for VicRoads, Preliminary Documentation (2017/8052) Latrobe River Bridge Replacement Project, Tyers Road, Traralgon.
3VIC Government, Heritage Council Victoria, Victorian Heritage Database, Tyers Road Causeway Bridge.
2 Indigenous Design, Report for VicRoads, Preliminary Documentation (2017/8052) Latrobe River Bridge Replacement Project, Tyers Road, Traralgon.
3VIC Government, Heritage Council Victoria, Victorian Heritage Database, Tyers Road Causeway Bridge.