Nepean Highway
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Victoria
The Nepean Highway is a highway in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It connects the city center of Melbourne with Portsea at the tip of the Mornington Peninsula, along the eastern shore of Port Phillip. He is the main road link from the southern suburbs to the city center of Melbourne.
History
In the 1850s created on this route Arthurs Seat Road, a sandy dirt road, the farms south of Melbourne ( the Alexander Balcombe were ) and the settlements in the southern part of Port Phillip, to Point Nepean to bind to the city. At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, the street was renamed in Point Nepean Road and since 1948 it is officially called Nepean Highway. This designation refers to Point Nepean, which in turn after the British politician and colonial administrator, Sir Evan Nepean (1751-1822) was named.
From the 1950s to about 1980, the road was extended gradually to a four-lane highway with no median strip between downtown Melbourne and Mordialloc. The widening of the bridge in Mordialloc was finally completed in early 2009.
Course
From Melbourne to Mornington
The Nepean Highway begins at the end of Swanston Street to the intersection with Flinders Street in the city center of Melbourne. It crosses the Princes Bridge, where it is the St. Kilda Road, a four-lane boulevard on which also drives the tram. They passed the Victorian Arts Centre (from which it bears the number S3) and the Shrine of Remembrance, before it reaches the St. Kilda junction. Soon after, at de junction with Carlisle Street, she re-enters her name in Brighton Road. Only from the Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick it is officially called ' Nepean Highway. Tram No. 67 ( Carnegie tram) is running on this road until it turns into the Glen Huntly Road.
From the Glen Huntly Road the speed limit increases from 50 km / h to 80 km / h and the road becomes eight-lane urban highway with median strip. In Moorabbin, the width is reduced again to six lanes as the road runs through the suburbs of Cheltenham and Mentone. Then, after the roundabout in Mordialloc, it becomes a four-lane road with no median strip with a speed of 60-70 km / h The path continues directly on Port Phillip along to Frankston and Olivers Hill up from where one has a good overview of Frankston and the bay.
Mornington Peninsula
Shortly after Mount Martha opens the Highway in the Mornington Peninsula Freeway (S11 ) until it turns towards Dromana. Here the Nepean Highway is the Point Nepean Road and from here is also Arthurs Seat easily accessible from where you have a beautiful view of the bay and on clear days the skyscrapers of Melbourne (Distance: approx 45 km) sees. Anthony 's Nose is a place between Dromana and McCrae, at a rock step on the southern shore of Port Phillip comes to light. The highway runs between The Nose and the shore of the bay. It was named in 1839 by Charles La Trobe. In the 1920s, The Nose has been changed so that the road was flooded at high tide, not daily.
The state road B110 leaves the Mornington Peninsula, Sorrento and follows the ferry to Queenscliff, from where it refers to the Bellarine Highway. The Nepean Highway but still leads 4 km northwest to the town of Portsea, where it ends at a roundabout. There lies the entrance to Point Nepean, a former defense battery and quarantine station of the Commonwealth of Australia.