Hyland Highway

North end

South end

Coordinates

38°11′59″S 146°31′59″E / 38.199613°S 146.532999°E / -38.199613; 146.532999 (North end)
38°32′48″S 146°42′03″E / 38.546574°S 146.700790°E / -38.546574; 146.700790 (South end)

General informationTypeHighwayLength59.9 km (37 mi)^[1]Route number(s)

C482 (1998–present)Former
route number

State Route 188 (1990–1998)Major junctionsNorth end

Princes Highway
Traralgon, Victoria

Traralgon Creek Road
Grand Ridge Road
Carrajung–Woodside Road

South end

South Gippsland Highway
Yarram, VictoriaLocation(s)Major settlementsGormandaleHighway system

Highways in Australia
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Highways in Victoria

Hyland Highway is a road connecting the towns of Traralgon and Yarram in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The highway was named after Sir Herbert Hyland, a popular politician for the Country Party in the Gippsland area.

Route

Highland Highway starts at the intersection of Princes Street and Breed Street, heading south as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, nearly immediately crossing the Bairnsdale railway line just east of Morwell railway station, then heads east after a roundabout, then after another kilometre turns south to leave Traralgon's suburbs, curving around Loy Yang's open-cut coal mine, then heads south through Gormandale, through the eastern stretches of the Strzelecki Ranges, to eventually end at the intersection with South Gippsland Highway, 2 kilometres north-east of Yarram.

History

The road was originally known as Yarram-Traralgon Road and declared a Main Road by the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) from at least 1955.^[2]

The construction of the open-cut coal mine for Loy Yang Power Station in the late 1970s required the road to be re-routed along Traralgon Creek Road (west of the coal mine) and Bartons Lane (south of the coal mine); the former alignment is now known as Craigburn Place (to the mine's north) and Broomfields Lane (to the mine's south-east).

The passing of the Transport Act of 1983^[3] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924^[4]) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads). The Hyland Highway was declared a State Highway in December 1990,^[5] from Traralgon to Yarram; before this declaration, the road was referred to as Traralgon Creek Road and Yarram-Traralgon Road.^[5]

Hyland Highway was signed as State Route 188 between Traralgon and Yarram in 1990; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, it was replaced by route C482.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004^[6] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hyland Highway (Arterial #6170), beginning at Princes Highway at Traralgon and ending at South Gippsland Highway in Yarram.^[7]

Major intersections

LGA	Location^[1]^[7]	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Latrobe	Traralgon	0.0	0.0	Princes Highway (M1 east, west) – Sale, Bairnsdale, Warragul, Melbourne Breed Street (north) – Traralgon	Northern terminus of highway and route C482 at traffic lights
		0.1	0.062	Bairnsdale railway line
		0.2	0.12	Bank Street (C476) – Churchill, Boolarra	Roundabout
	Loy Yang–Traralgon South boundary	6.6	4.1	Mattingley Hill Road (C475) – Morwell, Churchill, Boolarra
	Loy Yang–Traralgon South boundary	6.9	4.3	Traralgon Creek Road (C483) – Callignee
Wellington	Willung South	31.6	19.6	Grand Ridge Road (C484) – Carrajung, Mirboo North
	Carrajung Lower	39.1	24.3	Carrajung–Woodside Road (C453) – Woodside, Woodside Beach
	Yarram	59.9	37.2	South Gippsland Highway (A440) – Sale, Foster, Leongatha, Lang Lang	Southern terminus of highway and route C482 at T junction
Route transition

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Google (15 August 2015). "Highland Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Forty-Second Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1955". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 1 December 1955. p. 17.
^ State of Victoria, An Act to Re-enact with Amendments the Law relating to Transport including the Law with respect to Railways, Roads and Tramways... 23 June 1983
^ 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
^ ^a ^b "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 19 December 1990. pp. 3783, 3790. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015" (PDF). Government of Victoria. p. 957. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.