Mickleham Road is a secondary road located in Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne.[2]

Mickleham Road

Aerial photo looking south-east over Mickleham: Mickleham Road cuts across the bottom of this image
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Mickleham Road is located in Melbourne
North end
North end
South end
South end
Coordinates
General information
TypeRoad
Length18.9 km (12 mi)[1]
Route number(s)
  • C739 (1998–present)
    (Mickleham–Greenvale)
  • Metro Route 39 (1989–present)
    (Greenvale–Tullamarine)
  • Metro Route 48 (1965–present)
    (Attwood–Gladstone Park)
Former
route number
  • Metro Route 39 (1989–1998)
    (Yuroke–Greenvale)
Major junctions
North endOld Sydney Road
Mickleham, Victoria
 
South endBroadmeadows Road
Tullamarine, Melbourne
Location(s)
LGA(s)City of Hume
Major suburbsMickleham, Yuroke, Greenvale, Attwood

Route

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Mickleham Road begins at an intersection with Donnybrook Road and Old Sydney Road in Mickleham, and continues south as a two-lane single-carriageway through Yuroke to the intersection with Somerton Road in Greenvale, widening to a four-lane dual-carriageway road and continues south through Attwood to a large roundabout intersection with Broadmeadows Road in Westmeadows. It widens to a six-lane dual-carriageway road through the suburbs of Gladstone Park and under the Tullamarine Freeway, narrowing back to a four-lane dual-carriageway road until reaching the intersection with Melrose Drive in Tullamarine, where it becomes Broadmeadows Road (which continues south to Sharps Road).

History

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Mickleham Road was signed as Metropolitan Route 39 between Craigieburn Road in Yuroke and Melrose Drive in Tullamarine, in 1989. With Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, the section between Mickleham and Greenvale was replaced by C739.

The passing of the Road Management Act 2004[3] granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared Mickleham Road (Arterial #5820) from Donnybrook Road in Mickleham to Melrose Drive in Tullamarine.[4]

Major intersections

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Mickleham Road is entirely contained within the City of Hume local government area.

Location[1][4]km[1]miDestinationsNotes
Mickleham0.00.0Old Sydney Road – WallanNorthern terminus of road and route C739, road continues north as Old Sydney Road
  Donnybrook Road (C723) – Donnybrook, Yan Yean
3.32.1Mount Ridley Road – Craigieburn
MicklehamCraigieburnYuroke tripoint6.54.0  Craigieburn Road (C722 east, no allocation west) – Oaklands Junction, Craigieburn, Wollert
Greenvale11.67.2  Somerton Road (Metro Route 58) – Oaklands Junction, Epping, South MorangSouthern terminus of route C739, northern terminus of Metro Route 39
WestmeadowsGladstone Park boundary16.910.5  Broadmeadows Road (Metro Route 48) – Broadmeadows, Bundoora, ElthamConcurrency with Metro Route 48
WestmeadowsTullamarineGladstone Park tripoint17.911.1   Tullamarine Freeway (M2) – Docklands, Port Melbourne, Melbourne Airport
Tullamarine18.911.7  Melrose Drive (Metro Route 39 southeast, no shield northwest) – Airport West, Keilor ParkMetro Route 39 continues southeast along Melrose Drive
Broadmeadows Road – TullamarineSouthern terminus of road, continues south as Broadmeadows Road

See also

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  Australian Roads portal

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Mickleham Road" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  2. ^ "Maps of declared roads". VicRoads. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b VicRoads. "VicRoads – Register of Public Roads (Part A) 2015". Government of Victoria. p. 784. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2021.