Hoddle Highway is an urban highway in Melbourne linking CityLink and the Eastern Freeway, allotted metropolitan route . The name "Hoddle Highway" is almost completely unknown to most drivers - who refer instead to its constituent parts: Hoddle Street and Punt Road.
It starts at the Eastern Freeway entrance in Fitzroy and heads directly southwards until reaching Citylink in Richmond, near the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and continues across the Yarra River and down to the Nepean and Princes Highways, at St Kilda Junction.
This highway is frequently clogged with traffic, particularly during peak hour and during sport events, as it passes through busy inner Melbourne suburbs and the city's main sport and event precinct. This highway is also known as Hoddle Street north of Bridge Road, named after Robert Hoddle, architect of Melbourne's Hoddle Grid, and Punt Road south of Bridge Road, named after the punt used to cross the Yarra River before a bridge was built.
This continues on through the congested four laned undivided South Yarra district before heading further south into Barkly Street, through the St. Kilda city centre before terminating at Marine Parade.
Here is a run down of the few streets that exceed the Hoddle Highway status.
Read more about Hoddle Highway: Hoddle Street, Hoddle Street Massacre, Punt Road, Barkly Street, The 1969 Freeway Plan For Melbourne
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“The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson’s nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)