Road Photos & Information
Victoria
Border welcome sign on the South Australia / Victoria border west of Ned's Corner, Victoria. Image © Paul Rands
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In Victoria, as is the case with all the other states in Australia, the roads are classified into different categories, and are also numbered for maintenance purposes and also navigation purposes.
Victoria covers an area of 227 416 square kilometres on the south-eastern part of Australia. 1 VicRoads manages and develops major arterial roads and freeways (excluding tollways) which form part of Victoria's road network, which comprises of approximately 22,300 km of roads and 5,250 bridges and major culverts. 2
According to the VicRoads website, roads in Victoria are divided into several types: 2
- Freeways: Managed by VicRoads
- Tollways: Managed by Melbourne CityLink, which is a privately operated tollway forming part of the overall inner Melbourne freeway system and is operated by Transurban
- Urban Arterial Roads: Shared responsibility between VicRoads and Local Government (Councils).
- Non-urban Arterial Roads: Usually local Council, but may be joint responsibility.
- Municipal Roads (Local roads in towns, suburbs and throughout country Victoria): Local Government (Councils) for municipal roads.
- Other minor roads and tracks in parks and forests: Department of Sustainability & Environment (DSE) including Parks Victoria for other minor roads and tracks in parks and forests.
Route Numbering is designed to aid motorists navigate. In Victoria there is currently 2 systems in use. Alphanumeric numbering in the non-metropolitan areas and route shield numbering in Melbourne. Victoria is in the process of converting to the alphanumeric style of route marking, which began in 1996. The shield system is leftover from when Victoria used the system statewide, which started in 1965.
Outside of the metropolitan area, National Highways and National Routes have been converted to alphanumeric route numbers, however National Highways are still marked with the traditional National Highway shield (but with a lettered prefix, similar to other alphanumeric numbers), despite the National Highway system being replaced with the Federal Government's Auslink scheme.
Victoria's route numbering system currently consists of six types of numbering:
- Metropolitan Routes (formerly state routes) in the Melbourne metropolitan area.
- Alphanumeric route numbering in regional Victoria.
- National Routes.
- Tourist Drives which cover tourist orientated routes.
- Over Dimensional routes for larger vehicles.
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Alphanumeric routes are the newest form of route numbering in Victoria. Roads are numbered with M, A and B prefixes indicating the importance / standard of the route.
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The black on white markers indicate highways around Australia which are not part of the National Highway System but are still of some national significance.
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Routes that were once numbered using the previous hierarchical route numbering scheme or routes that have had their number removed due to diminished importance.
2 VicRoads