Dandenong Valley Highway

Stud Road starts at the intersection with Mountain Highway in Bayswater and heads south as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, crossing Burwood Highway at Wantirna South (and the beginning of Dandenong Valley Highway), where it widens to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road (sharing a dedicated bus lane on-and-off) and continues south through Scoresby to Rowville, crossing Wellington Road and narrowing back to a four-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues south to Dandenong, narrowing further to a four-lane, single-carriageway road south past David Street, changes names to Foster Street south of Clow Street, to the intersection with Lonsdale Street through central Dandenong. Running concurrent along Lonsdale Street, it resumes running south along Dandenong-Frankston Road as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Dandenong South and Carrum Downs, where it eventually crosses west under the Frankston railway line (at the end of Dandenong Valley Highway) as Overton Road, then turns immediately south along Dandenong Road West as a dual-lane single-carriageway road, all the way along Fletcher Road, where it briefly becomes a four-lane, dual-carriageway road again before it terminates at Nepean Highway in Frankston.

The elimination of the railway crossing where Dandenong-Frankston Road crossed the Pakenham railway line in Dandenong commenced in 1956, carried out by the Dandenong Shire Council, with assistance from Victorian Railways and the Country Roads Board,[2] and completed in 1957, with the eastern half of a four-lane overpass over the railway completed and open to traffic in September, and the western half completed not long afterwards.[3]

Dandenong Valley Highway (as its constituent roads) was signed as State Route 9 between Wantirna and Frankston in 1965. It was re-routed from Dandenong Road East and Beach Street through Frankston to its current alignment when the Beach Street railway crossing was eliminated in 1991.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[4] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads declared the road as Dandenong Valley Highway (Arterial #6090), from Burwood Highway in Wantirna South to Wells Road crossing underneath the Frankston railway line in Frankston,[5] while re-declaring the remaining roads within the corridor as Stud Road (Arterial #5796),[6] Klauer Road (today Klauer Street, Wells Road and Dandenong Road West) (Arterial #5159)[7] and Fletcher Road (Arterial #5974),[8] however all roads are still presently known (and signposted) as their constituent parts.

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