Services Along The Highway
The highway is known for the Route 75 tram line which runs down the median of the highway from Burwood to Vermont South. The 732 bus route also runs along the majority of the highway connecting Box Hill with Upper Ferntree Gully and provides a direct link between the Vermont South tram terminus and Westfield Knox. The highway features many shopping centres including the first Kmart built in Australia, Vermont South Shopping Centre, Westfield Knox along with its sister outdoor area Knox O-Zone and Mountain Gate Shopping Centre. The Belgrave shopping strip at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges is at the end of the highway.
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Famous quotes containing the words services and/or highway:
“I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)