Canterbury Road, Melbourne

Canterbury Road Victoria
Canterbury Road, Heathmont
General information
Type	Road
Length	25.8 km (16 mi)
Route number(s)	Metro Route 32 (1965–present)
Major junctions
West end	Rathmines Road Camberwell, Melbourne
	Burke Road Warrigal Road Middleborough Road Springvale Road EastLink
East end	Mount Dandenong Road Montrose, Melbourne
Location(s)
LGA(s)	City of Boroondara City of Whitehorse City of Maroondah
Major suburbs	Canterbury, Surrey Hills, Vermont, Heathmont

Canterbury Road is a major arterial road through eastern Melbourne, linking the inner eastern suburbs to the outer eastern fringe at the western foot of the Dandenong Ranges.

Route

Canterbury Road starts at the intersection with Burke and Rathmines Roads in Camberwell and runs east as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road until its intersection with Stanhope Grove, where it widens to a four-lane, single-carriageway road and continues east, underneath the Lilydale and Belgrave railway lines at Canterbury, through Surrey Hills until it reaches the intersection with Middleborough Road at the south-eastern corner of Box Hill. It widens to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road and continues east until Blackburn Road in Blackburn, where it widens further to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues east through Forest Hills and Heathmont, narrowing back to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road east of Dorset Road in Bayswater North and continuing east through Kilsyth, before eventually terminating at the intersection with Mount Dandenong Road in Montrose.

History

The Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) declared the western section of Canterbury Road, between Burke Road in Camberwell and Warrigal Road in Surrey Hills as a Main Road in the 1959/60 financial year. Construction of a steel and reinforced concrete rail-over-road overpass bridge replacing the level crossing with the Lilydale and Belgrave railway lines in Canterbury, was completed by Victorian Railways, with the Board lowering the road surface under it and carrying out improvements to adjacent streets, in the 1969/70 financial year.

Canterbury Road was signed as Metropolitan Route 32 between Camberwell and Montrose in 1965, originally heading further east along Swansea Road to Lilydale; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, the section between Montrose and Lilydale was replaced by route C401 and the route was truncated back to Montrose.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared Canterbury Road (Arterial #5802) from Burke Road in Camberwell to Mount Dandenong Road in Montrose.

Canterbury Road Upgrade

In 2016, the Australian Government committed $20 million to build a third lane outbound along Canterbury Road from Dorset Road to Montrose Road and to upgrade the Montrose roundabout to a signalised intersection. In 2018, the Australian Government committed a further $24.5 million to build a third lane inbound along Canterbury Road from Liverpool Road to Dorset Road.

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Boroondara	Camberwell	0.0	0.0	Rathmines Road (west) – Hawthorn East	Western terminus of road
				Burke Road (Metro Route 17 north, south/Metro Route 32 north) – Heidelberg, Camberwell, Caulfield East	Metro Route 32 continues north along Burke Road
	Canterbury	1.9	1.2	Balwyn Road – Balwyn North
	Surrey Hills	3.5	2.2	Union Road – Balwyn
Boroondara–Whitehorse border		3.7	2.3	Warrigal Road (Metro Route 15) – Burwood, Oakleigh, Mentone
Whitehorse	Surrey Hills–Box Hill–Box Hill South tripoint	4.8	3.0	Elgar Road – Doncaster, Burwood
	Box Hill–Box Hill South	5.6	3.5	Station Street (Metro Route 47) – Templestowe, Doncaster, Huntingdale
	Box Hill–Box Hill South–Blackburn–Blackburn South quadripoint	7.0	4.3	Middleborough Road (Metro Route 23) – Doncaster, Mount Waverley, Chelsea Heights
	Blackburn–Blackburn South border	8.7	5.4	Blackburn Road (Metro Route 13) – Doncaster East, Blackburn, Clayton
	Forest Hill	10.1	6.3	Springvale Road (Metro Route 40) – Donvale, Nunawading, Glen Waverley, Edithvale
	Vermont	12.2	7.6	Mitcham Road (Metro Route 36 north) – Doncaster, Mitcham Boronia Road (Metro Route 36 south) – Boronia, Sassafras
Maroondah	Ringwood	14.2	8.8	EastLink (M3) – Clifton Hill, Doncaster, Dandenong, Frankston
		15.1	9.4	Wantirna Road (Metro Route 9) – Ringwood, Wantirna
	Bayswater North	19.5	12.1	Bayswater Road (Metro Route 7) – Croydon, Ferntree Gully
		21.2	13.2	Dorset Road (Metro Route 5) – Croydon North, Boronia, Ferntree Gully
Yarra Ranges	Montrose	25.8	16.0	Mount Dandenong Road (Metro Route 62 west/C401 northeast/C415 northeast) – Croydon, Lilydale, Mount Dandenong	Eastern terminus of road and Metro Route 32
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Route transition

See also

Australian Roads portal