Hopkins Highway is a short highway in south-western Victoria, Australia, serving to link the Hamilton Highway at Mortlake with the Princes Highway (and the western end of the Great Ocean Road nearby) at the port city of Warrnambool.
Hopkins Highway | |
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General information | |
Type | Highway |
Length | 48.5 km (30 mi)[1] |
Opened | 1990 |
Route number(s) | B120 (1998–present) |
Former route number | State Route 104 (1990–1998) |
Major junctions | |
North end | Hamilton Highway Mortlake, Victoria |
Princes Highway | |
South end | Banyan Street Warrnambool, Victoria |
Location(s) | |
Major settlements | Ellerslie, Purnim, Bushfield |
Highway system | |
Hopkins Highway begins at the intersection with Hamilton Highway on the western edge of Mortlake and runs in a south-westerly direction as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, running in close proximity to the Hopkins River (and crossing it in Ellerslie). It eventually ends in the centre of Warrnambool.
The passing of the Transport Act of 1983[2] (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924[3]) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads). The Hopkins Highway was declared a State Highway in December 1990,[4] from Mortlake to Warrnambool; before this declaration, the road was referred to as Warrnambool-Mortlake Road.[4]
The Hopkins Highway was signed as State Route 104 between Mortlake and Warrnambool in 1990; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, it was replaced by route B120.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[5] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Hopkins Highway (Arterial #6010) between the Hamilton Highway in Mortlake and the Princes Highway at Warrnambool.[6]
LGA | Location[1][6] | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Moyne | Mortlake | 0.0 | 0.0 | Hamilton Highway (B140) – Geelong, Hamilton | Northern terminus of highway and route B120 |
Ellerslie | 12.8 | 8.0 | Ellerslie–Panmure Road – Panmure | ||
Hopkins River | 13.1 | 8.1 | Ellerslie Bridge | ||
Moyne | Ballangeich | 16.9 | 10.5 | Hexham–Ballangeich Road – Hexham | |
Warrnambool | Bushfield | 41.4 | 25.7 | Bridge Road (C169) – Woodford | |
Warrnambool | 48.5 | 30.1 | Princes Highway (A1) – Portland, Geelong | ||
Banyan Street – Warrnambool | Southern terminus of highway and route B120 | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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