Hamilton Highway

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States:

Victoria

The Hamilton Highway is a highway in the south west of the Australian state of Victoria. It connects the Glenelg Highway in Hamilton with the Princes Highway in Geelong.

Course

In the eastern suburbs of Hamilton to the same highway from Lenelg Highway ( B160 ) branches off to the southeast. By Penshurst it leads to Mortlake, where the Hopkins Highway ( B120 ) from southwest strikes him.

Of Mortlake from the Hamilton Highway runs eastwards through Lismore and Cressy to Geelong, where he meets the Princes Highway and ends. Originally, the highway ended in the Hyland Street in Fyansford, a western suburb of Geelong. 1931/1932, in the time of global economic crisis, but a bypass was built to combat unemployment. In 1933, the cut into the hillside, originally provided with concrete surface road was opened, 54 years after the first petition of the population of Fyansford for the construction of this road.

Importance

Together with the section of the Glenelg Highway from Hamilton to Mullawa, the Hamilton Highway about 50km a shorter alternative route to the Princes Highway between Melbourne and Mount Gambier dar.

Major intersections and connections

Source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas. Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007 ISBN. 978-1-74193-232-4. S. 42, 44, 45